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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.

For example, discussions around loan forgiveness, free community college, or changes to Title IX can directly impact institutional operations. Additionally, Berkeleys efforts in inclusive faculty hiring and climate assessments demonstrate a commitment to embedding DEI throughout the institution.

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Is DeSantis Right or Wrong?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Staff are overwhelmingly left-leaning, often organized in unions that are overt allies of the Democratic Party, and pursue Title IX and DEI initiatives strongly favored by Democrats and vehemently opposed by Republicans.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enrollment remained down at every level from community colleges to graduate schools, but much of academia showed its persistence and resilience. With the COVID-19 pandemic subsiding, colleges and universities have tried to bring students back to campus and provide fresh inspiration. Diverse Champions Award Dr. Eboni M.

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No Safe State: Former DEI Employee Says to Look for the Red Flags

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nicole DelMastro-Jeffery, former executive director for the DEI and Belonging office and Title IX coordinator at Richland Community College. State legislatures across the country have introduced and passed laws curbing DEI at educational institutions, even before Trump issued his order.

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The Year Behind and the Year Ahead

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From a spring full of student protest to the ending of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) measures in some states, the list of stressors is only likely to increase as time marches into 2025. Since 2013, over 80 anti-DEI bills have been introduced in 28 states, and 14 have been signed into law. Dr. Stella M.

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