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Report: Graduate Enrollment is on the Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brian McKenzie, director of research at CGS and lead author of the report. "We We track graduate enrollments at both the master's, certificate, and doctoral level for major institutions in the U.S. Though the number of graduate school applications increased by 3.9%. In 2020, all of the higher education sector was affected.

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Fielding Graduate University Mourns Educational Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

10, 2020, in Santa Barbara, California. Fielding Graduate University Taylor was a national leader on issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education, particularly those relating to access and equity, preparing the next generation of researchers and faculty members in the nation’s colleges and universities.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Forging strategic partnerships Williams’s ability to connect HBCU students to graduate programs caught the attention of Emory University, where he would be recruited in 2014 as the director of Diversity, Community and Recruitment. It was 2020, shortly after the murder of26-year-old Breonna Taylor. it’s not quick.”

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though we’re a teaching institution, the nature of passion that a faculty member has for his, her or their research is important because that ignites some spark in students.” The campus closed in March 2020, but in June 2020 the new doctoral cohorts in physical and occupational therapy were due to arrive.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Reflecting on my own journey during this era, from my undergraduate studies at Alabama A&M University to my graduate education at Virginia State University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I experienced firsthand the evolving landscape of higher education. As Dr. John C.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” The federally funded McNair Scholars program supports first-generation students from families within the federal low-income threshold and those from historically excluded racial and ethnic groups in graduate education.

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Using open access resources in teaching

Teaching Matters Online Learning

Open access (OA) can be seen as one string of the bow in the open education landscape. Open access and open education both stress the importance of making knowledge available for individuals around the world, regardless of wealth or status ( Elder 2020 ). Feb 20, 2020