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 13, 2023

Supreme Court decision outlawing the use of affirmative action in the higher education admissions process continue to ripple across the nation. After an organized disinformation campaign by conservative groups and individuals about the scope of its impact on the higher education community, the U.S. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2023

As the world of higher education awaits a U.S. 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. Dr. Anthony P.

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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

MARCH 13, 2024

Though confidence about the value of pursuing a two- or four-year college degree is higher among high schoolers than graduates who either dropped out or chose not to attend in the first place, neither demographic view such pursuits as the most valuable, according to a recent report from Edge Research, HCM Strategists, and D2 Strategies.

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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.

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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 is a co-founder of EducationCounsel LLC, which provides strategic guidance to institutions of higher education, who has a focus on access and diversity.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

We really want to pull these K-12 and higher education folks in and help them understand the importance of history, so they can combat what they confront right now, and they will continue to confront,” said Dunbar. As the ruling affects the admissions process and not the recruitment process, Dr. Anthony E.

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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

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Watson Spiva says CCA will continue to embrace partnerships with institutions whose goals include the ideals for higher education, what it “should strive for and look like,” and organizations that continue to talk about how equity is the answer in higher education, embracing the idea that “diversity is our strength and not a liability.”

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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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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. Black and Brown students face extraordinary barriers to medical school, including discrimination and educational and financial hurdles, says Dr. Nine states in the U.S. Dr. Jessica Faiz. Dr. David A.

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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 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

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

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. Admission into an SPS master’s degree program does not automatically mean admission into the fellowship.

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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

JULY 28, 2023

At Wednesday’s National Summit on Equal Opportunity hosted by the Department of Education, presidents, chancellors, provosts, CEOs and secretaries from across the nation heeded Department Secretary Miguel Cardona’s advice to turn this “low point” in higher education into a “turning point.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Supreme Court ruling that affirmative action in college admission decisions was unconstitutional sent shock waves throughout the higher education community. Higher education quickly doubled down on its DEI commitment, reaffirming the importance of safe learning spaces for marginalized and underrepresented groups.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Higher Ed Marketing Conferences Fuel Innovation and Expand Connections The higher education marketing landscape is evolving quickly, which means digital marketing professionals must work hard to stay on the cutting edge of new technologies and trends. Higher education marketing conferences are a great way to accomplish this.

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

Office Hours : EAB’s in-house podcast features compelling conversations with higher ed leaders in enrollment, institutional research, and financial aid, as well as discussions with EAB’s deep bench of experts. Gain expert peer advice about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion initiatives, admissions strategies, and online education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. Santiago and Sarita E. Currently, 60.1%

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Hall, graduate program director and assistant professor for the higher education and student affairs program at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (SIUE), found similar benefits. The administration also made sure that Hall wasn’t assigned an unreasonable amount of administrative or DEI work. “We Dr. Candace N.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 6, 2024

DEI has emerged as a major culture war issue less than four years after the tragic murder of George Floyd prompted a national conversation regarding racial and structural inequities in American society. The DEI pushback is strong and widespread, especially in public higher education. competitiveness in the long run.

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HEMJ (Higher Ed Marketing Journal)

OCTOBER 17, 2023

But there are a number of strategies that schools can pursue to help students from all backgrounds and with all types of motivations find success in their higher education endeavors. In the past, admission and retention staff viewed success as the student’s responsibility. Recognize student individuality.

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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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EAB

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Art Coleman, one of the nation’s foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education, joins EAB’s Tom Cakuls to unpack the recent Supreme Court ruling. Today I have the great privilege of bringing you a conversation with Art Coleman, one of the nation's foremost legal experts on affirmative action in higher education.

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Goucher DEI

MAY 22, 2024

Melissa is a proud Higher Education Opportunity Program graduate, like LAUNCH Scholars, at her alma mater. The LAUNCH Scholars Network, which is focused on supporting first-generation and Pell Grant-eligible students, is also a part of the EIE Division and is led by director Melissa Alexander.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

The culminating experience for the EAB Rising Higher Education Leaders Fellowship was the capstone project that substantively contributed to the fellows’ professional advancement and helped solve a pressing challenge facing their home institutions. The topics covered included student success, budget models, change management, and more.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Many enrollment offices are eager to act—especially if race-conscious admissions practices are discontinued in the near future. Furthermore, a focus on lower-income and first-generation students in particular takes on extra relevance in the context of legal restrictions on race-conscious admissions practices. Ready to find out more?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

Krinsky, executive vice president for operations and chief of staff at The Law School Admission Council (LSAC). The idea of a holistic approach to law school admissions has always existed for most law schools. The responsibility of law school admissions professionals is to build a well-rounded, diverse class. in 2020, and 35.3%

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The Change Leader, Inc.

JANUARY 23, 2024

The higher education landscape faces a troubling decrease in graduate school enrollment, markedly among minority groups and engineering programs. Dr. Grimes, with over 17 years in higher education, brings a wealth of experience in diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate education. minority and STEM).

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Campus Sonar

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The world is not ending; this isn’t going to deplete the value of higher education; and even if there are less “traditional college students,” there will still be humans who need and want postsecondary education. Focus on Systemic Change. Collect and Act on Feedback from Marginalized Members of Your Campus Community.

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