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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last four decades, Latino and African-American students were among the fastest-growing demographics in higher education. Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. for students who entered in 2017. Sanders says CEED makes sure that Virginia Tech undergraduates are exposed to graduate education.

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The Stop Campus Hazing Act: What You Need to Know (Clery Center)

Higher Education Inquirer

The Stop Campus Hazing Act (SCHA) amends section 485(f) of the Higher Education Act, otherwise known as the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act). UPDATE: The Stop Campus Hazing Act was signed into law by President Biden on December 23, 2024. What will campuses be required to do?

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Yale graduate workers form union after decades of organizing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Yale’s is one of academe’s longest-running graduate student organizing campaigns, dating back to the 1990s. In 2017, Yale student workers in eight departments even voted to unionize as part of an unusual “micro-unit” strategy.

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