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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While this is not a program specific to Native Americans, the state’s four tribal colleges are eligible institutions along with Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and all University of Minnesota campuses. Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” Dr. Gresham D.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. But Dougherty Family College (DFC), a two-year associate degree program at the University of St. We’re very blessed to have a strong, committed, and dedicated alumni board.” Staff were everywhere.

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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Facing financial pressures, the King’s College made a recent appeal to donors for $2.6 The deadline to raise the $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. ’ And to the credit of King’s College, they do have a next step plan in place.”

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

As Kimball and Iler show, the wealthiest 1 percent of the nation’s 3,285 four-year colleges and universities holds 54 percent of campus endowments. To put it bluntly: the wealthiest colleges and universities began to engage in a positional and spending arms race, with a goal of maximizing their reputation and prestige.

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Top 12 Challenges Facing Higher Ed in 2025—and the Exemplars Solving Them: An overview of the most urgent issues impacting higher education, with examples of how some institutions are beginning to respond.

The Change Leader, Inc.

Higher Ed Challenge 2: Rising Costs and Student Debt Challenge: The rising cost of higher education has left graduates with an average student loan debt of over $40,000, raising concerns about affordability and the return on investment. Tuition costs have risen dramatically over the past few decades, outpacing inflation and wage growth.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. During the Great Recession of 2008–09, Harvard raised liquid funds by issuing $2.5