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Department of Education Resumes Federal Student Loan Collections After Four-Year Pause

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education announced this week that its Office of Federal Student Aid (FSA) will resume collections on defaulted federal student loans beginning Monday, May 5, 2025, ending a pause that has been in effect since March 2020. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in the announcement.

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Higher Education Non-Exempt Staff Numbers Continue Seven-Year Decline

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The organization's latest workforce trends report, "The Non-Exempt Higher Education Staff Workforce: Trends in Composition, Size, and Equity," reveals a 9 percent overall decrease in full-time non-exempt staff positions since 2017. percent drop in part-time positions beginning in 2020. The non-exempt staff workforce at U.S.

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Worthy of More: Systemic Failures Women of Color Face in Higher Education

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Why are women of color in higher education celebrated for their excellence yet set up to fail by the very systems that claim to value them? This isnt a personal failure; its a systemic issueand higher education is a microcosm of broader workplace inequities. Jackson in Its Not Impostor Syndrome When Youre Black and a Woman.

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A Hope Built on Things Eternal: A Scholar’s Vision for Black Education - Dr. Kevin Lawrence Henry, Jr.

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Title: Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 36 Education: B.A., This intellectual awakening led him to pursue a career in education rather than law, though he maintains that he accidentally fell into the academy.

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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

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W Kim Lee and Dr. Carolyn Stefanco hen the American Council on Education launched its Moving the Needle initiative over a decade ago to raise awareness about gender parity in higher education or lack thereof only 23% of college presidents or chancellors were women. in the majority white college town in the Mountain region.

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College Transfer Enrollment Grew for Third Consecutive Year

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below 2020 levels. of non-freshmen undergraduates, and this percentage has steadily grown since fall 2020. We see this as a further indication that students are adjusting their post-secondary goals in response to changing education and labor market conditions, said Shapiro. Black students saw an even higher transfer rate at 8.3%

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Coppin State University: A Renaissance of Purpose and Progress

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Since taking the helm in 2020, Jenkins has orchestrated a data-driven renaissance that has revolutionized student success rates and institutional effectiveness. Named after the institutions namesake, a pioneering African American educator, the program provides comprehensive support and resources to high-achieving students.