Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. Now Congress and federal agencies have a full picture of the problem. We must ensure that federal data collection continues so that policymakers know what they are dealing with.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. In 2017, 17% of an administrative group called the president’s council were people of color. secretary of health and human services under President Barack Obama.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Investing in diversity among faculty, staff and administrators is a critical component.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Aspen subsequently began two intensive fellowships that select senior administrators with the qualities of exceptional presidents and teach lessons from the field about how to achieve exceptional and equitable levels of student success. A national leadership development strategy matters.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The 30-page complaint gets so many facts wrong that it is difficult to know where to begin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Dr. Lorelle Espinosa Velez hopes that faculty, administrators and policy makers at graduate schools read the report, recognize the barriers that exist for Black and Hispanic STEM PhD students and make an effort to remove those barriers. “We Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

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. What ends up happening is you essentially decimate the infrastructure of Black educational institutions.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Lee said there is concern of funds from Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), CARES Act, and other federal stimulus funds ending. We’re having discussions with policy makers across the spectrum from state and federal [government] … about the fact that we need to be supporting our students through this journey,” Lee said.

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University Business

MAY 7, 2025

While AI promises significant benefits from streamlining administrative tasks to helping improve learning outcomes and personalizing educational pathways it also comes with significant resource demands and upfront costs.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 17, 2023

Image: The Biden administration’s $90 billion plan to provide free community college likely won’t make it through Congress, but supporters of the effort say the request shows it’s a priority for the administration and helps to continue the national conversation about the policy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). Information was not provided about new nursing hire recruitment.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The federal government responded to the changing higher education landscape in the early part of this decade by making significant grant funds available to colleges and universities to promote student safety and help institutions offer remote and hybrid instruction.

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Higher Education Inquirer

APRIL 28, 2025

The recent decision to have the Small Business Administration (SBA) take over the federal student loan portfolio has sent shockwaves through the world of education finance. [Image of AidVantage operations in Greenville, Texas. Note the barbed wire fence.]

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University Business

MARCH 26, 2024

As a result, federal officials believe SARA “prioritizes administrative convenience over student and taxpayer protection,” failing to protect them in the process. The balancing act between protecting smaller institutions and the students they serve is a “tricky balance to strike,” Kadel concedes.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2024

Higher education leaders frequently cite the pressure they have to deal with from a caustic public, the media and even state and federal governments that are skeptical about their offerings. institutions. An average of 55% of students and parents said financial aid would be “extremely” necessary.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2023

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.” Is this diversity newsletter?

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

More than three years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, college and university administrators have only a few months left to allocate money made available by the federal government through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund.

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University Business

MARCH 21, 2023

30, 2022, had to be returned to the federal government. million on COVID expenditures to corrections and homeland security, so they were reimbursing themselves with the leftover federal dollars. The Coronavirus Aid and Economic Relief (CARES) Act allotted West Virginia $1.25 billion of its $150 billion purse to the state.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 19, 2023

The for-profit Living Arts College closed abruptly after the shutdown of the embattled Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges & Schools and blamed the federal government for its demise.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We are recognized by the federal government as both a predominantly Black institution and as a Hispanic-serving institution. While administrations at both institutions have said they would like to see the mission preserved, there are three steps both administrations must take to make sure this actually happens.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 22, 2023

Administrators have said only 23 current faculty and staff members will lose their jobs. The crisis had been partly obscured, he said, by COVID-19 relief funds that had flowed from the federal government during the coronavirus pandemic—money that the university couldn’t count on for long.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

One of the complexities of college leadership is that a president typically has approximately nine different constituencies (students, parents, alumni, donors, faculty, staff, local, state and federal government, at the least) whose views are not only not aligned, but frequently diametrically opposed to one another.

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University Business

JUNE 7, 2023

Students and the federal government have waged lawsuits and called for stronger oversight of the edtech company. The department recognized that because the function of OPMs is interlinked with institutions’ Title IV administrative activities, companies like 2U must also comply with TPS requirements as well.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In practice, these experiences require a level of administrative and logistical effort that is difficult for faculty to manage. Partner with local governments. One of the surest ways to build a sense of self-efficacy among students is to incorporate community engagement experiences in the curriculum.

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Higher Education Inquirer

MARCH 12, 2025

Risepoint's Ownership: The Vistria Group and Its Ties to the Obama Administration A key piece of Risepoints corporate structure lies in its ownership by Vistria Group, a Chicago-based venture capital firm with close ties to political and corporate elites, including former President Barack Obama.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

” Relegation of universities could trigger political pushback from local councils that treasure them, state governments that own them and a federal government sensitive to perceptions of rural areas getting a raw deal.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 20, 2023

A public institution that relies on Garcetti as a rationale to try and disavow faculty academic freedom in teaching, research and service, including shared governance participation, has explicitly rejected this key accreditation requirement. In fact, this argument has already been extended to Florida institutions.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 10, 2023

Nationally representative data can address these issues and provide benchmarks that university administrators can use to understand how faculty work and life at their institution may compare in relation to peer institutions. The survey was last administered in fall 2003, with earlier administrations in 1987, 1992 and 1998.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 12, 2023

Since any associated policy changes could affect a much wider set of services than originally expected, we thought that we’d use this space to share what we think are the key points that university leaders across higher education need to understand about the potential impact of recent and anticipated actions by the federal government.

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Higher Education Inquirer

JANUARY 17, 2025

8 The Social Security Administration calls the program one of the most successful anti-poverty programs in our nation's history. 67 Given the data findings above, such a request for relief from the Commissioner of the Social Security Administration on behalf of Social Security beneficiaries who have defaulted student loans could be justified.

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University Business

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The conflict between the federal government and GCU, one of the country’s largest Christian Universities in the nation, first began when it applied to be recognized as a non-profit to the Department of Education in 2019 to streamline its federal funding process. Feeling snubbed, GCU sued the Department in Jan.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Department only gets involved to determine if the institution has the financial stability and the administrative capability to manage student aid programs, which is one of the main reasons colleges and universities apply for accreditation. Food and Drug Administration, which performs its processes internally.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 12, 2023

McNaughton and Reichman cover the processes and conclusions of the AAUP report, emphasizing the detrimental effects on academic governance, academic freedom, and the well-being of faculty and students. These legislative actions have been perceived as direct attacks on academic freedom, faculty rights, and the sanctity of tenure.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JULY 4, 2023

The legislation basically asked, “Why doesn’t the Department of Education have an accreditation process for determining what institutions are qualified for the same way that the federal government decides what drugs are suitable for use in medical treatment through the U.S. Food and Drug Administration?”

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