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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. And as our research has found, every dollar spent, and every job created comes with a multiplier that extends its impact.

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Dr. Elfred A. Pinkard Appointed Brown University’s First HBCU Presidential Fellow

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He was appointed as fellow to help bolster Brown’s efforts and relationships with HBCUs, according to Brown officials, who added that he will create a consortium of partner schools for research, faculty development, student opportunities, and bolstering the number of HBCU undergraduates attending graduate school. Pinkard holds an Ed.D.

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The Missing Link to Scaled Excellence and Equity in Community College Student Outcomes: A National Leadership Development Strategy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While efforts are aplenty to help community colleges adopt discrete strategies that research shows to be effective, not enough is being done to find and develop leaders who can ensure that needed institution-wide change is implemented. Of our 329 fellowship alumni, 49% are leaders of color and 63% are women.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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College presidents move to cultural institutions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

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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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. Iler is assistant director of institutional research at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

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Accreditor emerging for intellectual disabilities programs

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Proponents of expanding the number of programs point to research showing greatly improved employment outcomes for students, who also learn skills to help them live independently and be less reliant on family. Students in these programs are eligible for Pell Grants, though not federal student loan aid.