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Echoing Oz, Moody’s Downgrade Highlights a Tempest in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

higher education outlook is not merely a financial tremor; it serves as a chilling echo of the cyclone that swept Dorothy into the tumultuous Land of Oza "tempest of uncertainty" driven by rapid policy shifts and financial pressures, threatening the very foundations of higher education. higher education.

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Morgan State University Launches Task Force to Combat Declining Black Male Enrollment

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higher education institutions. At Morgan State, despite achieving record-breaking total enrollment figures and becoming the nation's third-largest HBCU, the percentage of Black male students has dropped from 43% in 2015 to 37% in fall 2024.

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Gallup Survey Finds Declining Confidence in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Americans are nearly equally divided among those who have high levels of confidence (36%), some confidence (32%), or little or no confidence (32%) in higher education, according to the Lumina-Gallup survey conducted June 3-23.

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Legacy Admissions Hit Historic Low as More States Ban Practice at U.S. Colleges

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The dramatic decline signals a potential end to a controversial practice that critics have long condemned as perpetuating inequality in higher education. The practice has seen particularly steep drops since 2015, when nearly half of all four-year colleges considered legacy status.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

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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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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

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An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. We have the greatest higher education system in the world. In between tracing the historiography of higher education in the U.S.,