Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 17, 2023

One of the effects of the Ohio bill would be the prevention of schools from mandating any DEI training except for school accreditation, federal requirements, professional licenses, or grants. Students and staff would not be required to describe commitments to specific concepts or principles as part of hiring or admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision this year to ban race-conscious admissions and “the attacks that we're seeing subsequently on DEI in the states,” it’s crucial to assess the campus racial climate today, said Hernández-Reyes. “In states, gauging their thoughts on what their respective campuses could be doing better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Color Us United, a nonprofit that advocates for a “race-blind” America, declared a “historic victory” over DEI efforts at the University of North Carolina’s School of Medicine (UNC). However, a closer look reveals a more complicated picture: DEI may be far from dead at UNC. Stevenson as proof that it has triumphed over DEI at UNC.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. What happens after affirmative action bans?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Over the last several years, we have witnessed firsthand the chilling effects of legislative actions and court decisions to outlaw efforts designed to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education and in the workplace. The war on DEI is being well documented. It is clear that the 2023 U.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Patterson Patterson is currently vice president of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) at University of North Alabama. Patterson has previously served as vice president for enrollment management at Marietta College and director of admissions and enrollment services at University of Central Arkansas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. had already outlawed the use of race in their admissions long before this ruling. We had become complacent for a long time in diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), doing the same-old, same-old.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

Supreme Court decision expected to strike down race-conscious admissions policies, a new report from the Center on Education and the Workforce at Georgetown University is offering more evidence of what a post-affirmative action landscape might look like. As the world of higher education awaits a U.S. Dr. Anthony P. points, to 6.3%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. Harvey Proactive, targeted zip code-focused recruitment combined with direct admissions. The shock waves that erupted following the U.S. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

University of North Carolina , the cases that could re-shape the role of race in admissions or even ban it entirely, are not likely to be known until next June. Could it prevent DEI offices from funding ethnic student resource centers and programs? DEI officers, it seems, are in for a long stretch of hard work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

America’s racial tension has been heightened by increasingly conservative Supreme Court rulings, book bans, and an increasing number of bans on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programming in states across the country. As the ruling affects the admissions process and not the recruitment process, Dr. Anthony E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Art Coleman, co-founder of EducationCounsel LLC The Supreme Court’s June ruling ending race-conscious admissions practices left vast patches of uncertainty in its wake. Coleman took attendees through a typical admissions process under the new regime. Coleman said that continuing to offer scholarships tied to race is risky.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

What they are hearing is things like the Supreme Court decision on race-conscious admissions, anti-DEI attacks, deliberation on test-optional and legacy admissions, crippling student loan debt. But unfortunately, students aren't getting their information from the economist we're listening to,” Methvin said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Supreme Court ended race-conscious college admissions policies in June, focus turned to searching for alternatives. Seemingly everything from using class-based preferences to ditching legacy admissions to replacing admittance regimes with lottery systems has been suggested. After the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

People are already declaring a “post-affirmative action era” while still weighing the scales of benefit from new approaches to equity, justice… and admissions. Herein is the substance of responding to public DEI resistance and stakeholder scrutiny. The component is embedded in the Pillar: Institutional Leadership and Commitment.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

Williams, a director of student affairs and DEI for graduate programs in sustainability management and sustainability science, tours the country and tells people about what the Ivy League school’s fellowship can offer them. “For Admission into an SPS master’s degree program does not automatically mean admission into the fellowship.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 29, 2024

The South Carolina House of Representatives has passed a bill that would ban public colleges and universities from asking applicants for admission or employment to submit statements that agree or disagree with diversity, equity and inclusion or “any political ideology or movement.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The data, she adds, is critical to pinpointing areas for improvement, especially when working with states that might be confronting anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) language. Even in states with anti-DEI legislations, the states still want improved outcomes.

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University Business

MARCH 14, 2023

As a young girl who fled her native country’s civil conflict and climbed this country’s academic ladder to become a first-generation college student, her experience in university admissions and governance reflects a similar thread. As the provost of Ball State University in Muncie, Ind., ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Week in Admissions News Susan H. Greenberg Fri, 09/15/2023 - 05:43 PM The University of Tennessee will guarantee admission to all eligible in-state students; the University of Central Arkansas launches a tuition assistance program; Colorado College welcomes transfer students from anti-DEI states. Byline(s) Susan H.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For example, recent moves by states like Florida to limit diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives on college campuses have increased the stakes for social media activism. However, as state legislatures across the U.S. The true support of institutions should go deeper than a post or an email to show solidarity.

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University Business

JUNE 27, 2023

Higher education’s commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion is nearing a potential inflection point as two trends coalesce this summer: State bills stamping out DEI offices and two Supreme Court rulings are expected to strike down affirmative action in the coming days. “You have to be careful not to over-interpret it.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We Supreme Court’s June ruling that race-conscious admissions practices are unconstitutional. She was paired with a mentor who, like her, was a Black mother who had transitioned from staff to a tenure track role.

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University Business

MARCH 13, 2023

Following New College of Florida’s board of trustees voting to abolish all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs schoolwide, the DeSantis-backed president has axed its top officer. The three other officers who worked in the now-defunct DEI program were reassigned. “I am the first casualty in many ways.”

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University Business

JUNE 9, 2023

It’s a question that Noah Geisel, the micro-credential program manager at the University of Colorado Boulder, asks employers, admissions counselors and all other professionals trying to find the most qualified human among the swaths of faceless applicants—the hay. What if we issued a badge on DEI?” ” Geisel says.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

With standardized testing losing steam and affirmative action ending, admission officers have to adapt new critical frameworks to study potential students’ fit at a given institution. Enter “holistic admission” or “holistic review,” higher education’s biggest buzz phrase in this next application cycle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. Through the Alliance to Accelerate Excellence in Education, CSUSM guarantees admission to eligible high school students in 18 districts, many with majority Latinx populations. Currently, 60.1%

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

He said objecting to DEI as a business principle struck him as an ideological attack, adding that demographics are shifting across the U.S.—especially —especially in California—which puts Whittier ahead of the curve in focusing on DEI. She also pointed to high turnover for staff members working in admissions.

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University Business

JULY 28, 2023

These remarks encouraged leaders to discuss how they can maintain their commitment to diverse admission practices while adhering to the law. Walter Kimbrough, the interim executive director of the Black Men’s Research Institute at Morehouse College, pointed to publicly appointed officials wreaking havoc in the DEI space.

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University Business

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The June 2023 Supreme Court decision banning colleges from considering race in admissions is having repercussions beyond who gets into college. The ruling has spurred a wave of state laws that curb or end campus diversity, equity, and inclusion effortsand race-based scholarships are coming under fire, too. Read more at Time.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

My colleague Madeleine Rhyneer recently fielded a survey with enrollment and admissions leaders, and Differentiating the Student Value Proposition was among the top three priorities cited. Our point of view at EAB is that DEI is both mission and margin critical. Right now is not the time to take your foot off the gas.

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EAB

JANUARY 10, 2023

Gain expert peer advice about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, admissions strategies, and online education. Enrollify : Host Zach Busekrus brings energy and enthusiasm to his conversations with enrollment marketing professionals on topics like parent engagement strategies and DEI marketing gaps.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Importance of a Diverse Student Population In everything we do at Archer Education, from marketing to admissions to retention, we know that one size does not fit all. In the past, admission and retention staff viewed success as the student’s responsibility. Recognize student individuality.

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EAB

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From DEI initiatives to post-COVID outcomes, explore EAB’s top content of 2022 below: Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice for Higher Ed. Our DEIJ Higher Ed Resource Center is a combination of best-practice DEI guidance and strategies promoting inclusive culture on campus. Check out the DEI Resource Center.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As higher education institutions kick off the 2023-2024 academic year, the Supreme Court’s decisions from earlier this summer that struck down race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard and the University of North Carolina are slipping farther out of view in the proverbial rear-view mirror.

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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Interestingly, Students for Fair Admission also requested that the Court overrule 45 years of precedent that found the educational benefits of diversity to be compelling. It was limited to admission decisions. While this Court's opinion addressed only admission, there are certain elements here that will bear on other examples.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

How to communicate financial information to Gen Z students Concerns about affordability raise questions about DEI. Twenty-two percent of students indicated they do not plan to take a graduate admission test. And about half (49.5%) of surveyed students indicated they are willing to spend no more than $15,000 annually on their education.

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