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IHEP and Results for America Release HEA Fund Allocation Recommendations for Education Department

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Eleanor Eckerson Peters The Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2022 – and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023 – gave the U.S. The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Results for America (RFA) released recommendations for the Department of Education (ED) to set-aside 0.5%

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Unapologetic Leadership for Black Learner Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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Report: HBCU and Tribal Land-Grant Universities Significantly Underfunded

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However, programs for 1890s allow up to 50% of this state matching requirement to be waived, a practice that many of these schools have had to employ to maintain full funding from the federal level. From 2018 to 2022, six to nine of the 19 1890 institutions requested such waivers each year, according to the report.

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A trend colleges might not want applicants to notice: It’s becoming easier to get in

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percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants.

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70 Years After Brown v. Board of Education

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That was the job of federal government to ensure that the ruling was followed. It was also the responsibility of the states to follow federal rulings in that way.” Some federal enforcement did still occur. According to a 2022 report from the U.S. Segregation today Brown v.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

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But there’s more the federal government can do. Congress and state lawmakers should consider raising the floor on teacher salaries, similar to what was proposed in a 2022 House bill. Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

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Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. In the fall of 2022, Webster hosted a diversity career fair for which corporations were asked to provide a statement about how DEI shows up in their organizational mission. “We