Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 25, 2024

Esterberg The American Association of State Colleges and Universities has announced a new cohort of 35 higher education professionals taking part in its 2024 Emerging Leaders Program (ELP). The program provides participants with the skills, connections, and support needed to transition into the higher-level roles.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

by Erika Kalocsányiová and Rania Hassan Promoting sustainability literacy in higher education is crucial for deepening students’ pro-environmental behaviour and mindset ( Buckler & Creech, 2014 ; UNESCO, 1997 ), while also fostering social transformation by embedding sustainability at the core of the student experience.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A comprehensive report from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) illustrates the resilience of America’s blue-collar region and describes how increased collaboration with higher education can ensure its survival. Census Bureau data from 2015 to 2019.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

“I have spent my entire professional career focused on helping students achieve their educational goals and being president of SACSCOC has been the icing on the cake.” Wheelan, who was honored by Diverse in 2015 with its Dr. John Hope Franklin award , was the first woman and first African American to lead SACSCOC.

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Robert Kelchen

JANUARY 3, 2022

I am teaching a remote synchronous PhD class in higher education finance as my first course at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Instead, I use articles, working papers, and other online resources to provide a current look at the state of higher education finance. Eight economic facts on higher education.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025. The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students.

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Higher Education Today

JULY 17, 2023

Title: Second Chance Pell: Six Years of Expanding Higher Education Programs in Prisons, 2016­2022 Authors: Niloufer Taber and Asha Muralidharan Source: Vera Institute of Justice Started by the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Founded by the Presbyterian Church in 1875, Knoxville College lost its accreditation with the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) in 1997, and the college has struggled financially, and student enrollment began to decline to the point that only 11 students were enrolled at the time of the school’s closing in May 2015.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A. The decreases, he added, make him nervous.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. This seems like an obscure topic, but it affects a substantial portion of American higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2024

He was UDC’s ninth and longest-serving president whose tenure spanned from 2015 to 2023. Nothing could be more appropriate to the mission of the Marie Fielder Center to advance social and educational justice and inclusion." It's a prestigious honor," said Mason, the former president of the University of the District of Columbia (UDC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

The prison education program as a whole has had more than 400 students since 2022, composing a mix of both incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people and Marquette undergrads, though the program’s origins stretch back to 2015, Wheelock said.

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University Business

MAY 3, 2023

Census’ American Community Survey from 2015 to 2019 and found that: 26% of Afro Latinas had a college degree by 2019, while 17.5% A higher share of Afro Latino men also had a college degree compared to other Latinos. Researchers analyzed data from the U.S. of other Latinas did. Read more from Axios.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend. Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. In many ways, it’s a sign of progress. But that is all the more reason to recognize that hope is a strategy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 1, 2024

The North Dakota State Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors before voting unanimously to end Mark Hagerott’s time as chancellor. In 2015, the North Dakota State Board of Higher Education hired Mark Hagerott to lead the state’s system of 11 public colleges and universities.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JULY 3, 2024

The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently reported the largest year-over-year increase in the state’s college-going rate since the 2015 launch of Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for community college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Indiana has been seeing a decline in Indiana residents pursuing higher education. In 2015, 65% of state high school graduates were going straight to college, but by 2020, down to 53% were attending college the year after high school. 18-23 and 25-30. Students who complete the program will earn college credits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

NSC’s researchers found that, on a national level, the six-year completion rate for students who began college in Fall 2017 was 62.2%, the same as those who began in Fall 2015. Older college students – those older than age 24 – seem to be finishing college at gradually higher rates, now at 52% from 2015’s 50.5%. to 64.7%.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Since 2015, degree apprenticeships have offered an alternative route into both higher education and the world of work. Companies partner with universities and give you the chance to earn a salary while you study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Supporting Early Career Faculty at Minority Serving Institutions,” examines CMSI’s ELEVATE program launched in 2015, which supports professional development, mentorship, and retention for MSI faculty. As a proud member of the very first ELEVATE cohort in 2015, I had very few expectations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

My hope is to continue to transform lives through higher education.” The Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program, named after Wade’s sister, has extensively reduced the “summer slide” in reading achievement among Milwaukee school children since 2015.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more. ITHAKA realized that this little, tiny thumb drive may not be enough to support higher education at scale,” Burnett said. “So,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. It is imperative to view Black males as capable achievers whose success is indispensable to a healthy and diverse educational landscape (Goings et al.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

This newest study focuses on the enrollment data available for the community college cohort entering in 2015, which allowed for six years to complete their journey toward a bachelor’s degree. Dr. Ángel de Jesus González, assistant professor of higher education administration and leadership at Fresno State.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Diverse also recognized Crazy Bull as a top leader in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We There was also a robust focus on the humanities. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A.

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The Guardian Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Open letter signed by alumni who say they have benefited from the programme has been sent to vice-chancellor The University of Cambridge has come under fire after axing a mindfulness programme for students, at a time of mounting concern about young people’s mental health and suicides in higher education. Continue reading.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

First-time undergraduate enrollment exploded across the state’s community colleges by at least 40% when the initiative was implemented in 2015. Minnesota is one of the latest states to offer its residents tuition-free access to postsecondary education through its aptly named North Star Promise.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Dual enrollment programs enable high school students to earn college credits at little to no cost and have experienced collective enrollment growth by more than 159% since 2015. Alabama’s future is bright, and our community colleges are at the heart of it,” said ACCS Vice Chancellor for Student Success Dr. Neil Scott. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

Glaude has been chair since AAS , originally a certificate program, became a department in 2015. With this move, he said he would be staying at Princeton and returning to full-time research and other responsibilities, such as “trying to help the nation imagine itself differently when it comes to race matters.”

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Robert Kelchen

JULY 25, 2024

One of the projects that is near completion (thanks to Arnold Ventures for their support of this work) is examining the prevalence and implications of the federal government’s heightened cash monitoring (HCM) policy in higher education. Colleges end up on HCM1 and HCM2 for much different reasons.

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University Business

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Four in every five (81%) dual-enrolled student analyzed by the research center enrolled at a postsecondary institution in fall 2015, their first year after high school. In 41 states, students who participated in dual enrollment programs and went straight to college had higher college completion rates compared to those who didn’t.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

It follows a $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment in 2015 that enabled UNCF to launch the Career Pathways Initiative to help enhance career outcomes for students. The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L.

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The Scholarly Teacher

MAY 17, 2023

2015), some recommendations for accommodations include distraction-free testing, extended time for tests, use of a notetaker, and meeting with a DRS counselor. Planning for Higher Education , 47 (1), 3. allowing the student extended time on tests) (DO-IT, 2022). According to Gelbar et al. References Asaro-Saddler, K.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dr. Frank Fernandez, assistant professor of higher education leadership and policy at the University of Florida. “We Smith, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Auburn University in Alabama. “If Smith, assistant professor of higher education and student affairs at Auburn University.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

In 2015, Tennessee’s public colleges were some of the first higher education institutions to eliminate stand-alone remedial courses. In recent years, more than 20 states, from California to Florida, have either replaced remedial classes at their public colleges with corequisites or given students a choice between the two.

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