Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

The Texas Senate has approved a bill that would limit how state public universities can promote equitable access to higher education and foster campus diversity, The Texas Tribune reported. The bill will not affect course instruction, faculty research, student organizations, guest speakers, data collection or admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

Similarly, many university administrators, including education deans, disseminated statements illustrating their commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Republican legislators have waged anti-DEI movements, claiming myths that DEI efforts are ineffective, violate free speech, and are discriminatory towards white students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Campus racial climate is defined in the report as the “current attitudes, behaviors, and practices of faculty and students at a higher education institution toward students based on their race/ethnicity.” states, gauging their thoughts on what their respective campuses could be doing better.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For institutions looking to measure their DEI efforts, the tool of choice has typically been campus climate assessments, surveys of groups like faculty or students that provide an aggregate picture of the impact of a college’s endeavors. The instrument also revealed that some basic DEI practices were less common.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Pay raises for University of Wisconsin employees are under threat of being blocked by Wisconsin Republican Assembly Speaker Robin Vos, who is asking the school to cut diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and staff by $32 million, the Associated Press reported. Democratic Gov. Republican Govs.

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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

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

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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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

AUGUST 9, 2023

Supreme Court slammed the door on race-conscious admissions practices this past June, Americans still broadly believe in the importance of diversity in higher education. The report shows that American views on diversity and equity in higher education are nuanced—or perhaps confused. Although the U.S.

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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

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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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

History and Structure of Selective Admissions Folks are not privy to the inner workings of admissions, especially at elite and brand name schools. The College Admissions Scandal (aka Varsity Blues) gave us a small window into this structure, but that story will soon be forgotten.

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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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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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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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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

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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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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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Here is a short list of US universities with legacy admissions. California banned legacy admissions for private colleges in 2024. Supreme Court ruling against college admissions policies that consider race. For a more exhaustive list, visit edreformnow.org. For a more exhaustive list, visit edreformnow.org.

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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

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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University Business

MARCH 14, 2025

The department is beginning to crack down on all race-related and DEI initiatives across higher education and K12 since issuing an updated Dear Colleague letter last month. Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling Students for Fair Admissions v. It cites the U.S.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Image: A new National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine report notes some improvement in minority representation in higher education related to science, technology, engineering, math and medicine (STEMM)—but not enough to match those groups’ share in the overall population.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 27, 2025

The Greatest Challenges Facing Higher Education: A Comprehensive Analysis for 2025 with Exemplars in Navigating Solutions Higher education is no longer coastingcolleges and universities now face a defining moment. And that is where higher ed is right now. million undergraduates. million in 2022.

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University Business

APRIL 14, 2025

Department of Education laid off nearly all federal staff responsible for managing, analyzing and interpreting higher education data through the National Center for Education Statistics. Much of the media was focused on challenges to DEI, the loss of research grants and immigration visits to campuses.

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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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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

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Supreme Court justices heard challenges to race-based college admissions in two cases involving Harvard College and the University of North Carolina. However, colleges may consider race in admissions using “compelling interest.” Now, the future of affirmative action rests in their hands.

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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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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Image: The Ron DeSantis takeover of Florida higher education was on full display Tuesday. DeSantis, now in his second term, launched the opening act on Tuesday when he announced promised higher education reforms. He claimed that the state’s DEI efforts have shamed white and Christian students.

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University Business

MARCH 15, 2023

Harping on recent Republican legislation from Florida, Oklahoma and Texas, Ohio is the latest state to propose a bill that spurns DEI initiatives and chips away at the stability of tenured faculty who lawmakers believe inhibit campus intellectual diversity. Jerry Cirino, R-Kirtland, according to The Colombus Dispatch.

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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

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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JANUARY 10, 2023

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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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