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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“North Star Promise provides free college tuition to help make education after high school possible for more Minnesota students and families,” is written on the Minnesota Office of Higher Education website. Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stout, recipient of the 2025 Diverse Champions Award, has focused her career on helping community colleges achieve outstanding student success. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College. Shes known for her transformational work in higher education, says Dr. Theresa B.

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Addressing How Student Parents Are Underserved

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California. While pursuing their education, they grapple with a number of challenges in a higher education system that has historically overlooked their needs and experiences, according to the report.

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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But higher education isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. Post-secondary institutions could be instrumental in helping to coordinate and implement varied strategies.

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How Pedagogy is Helping Students Feel Like They Belong

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nicholas Cochrane, associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College. “To Now, Cochrane is an associate professor of business and economics at Mount Wachusett Community College (MWCC) in rural Gardner, Mass., To say I didn’t fit in was an understatement,” said Cochrane. “I

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Community colleges suffer from employee shortages

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Image: Community colleges across the country are struggling to recruit and hire new people after losing faculty and staff members in droves during the pandemic. The institutions lost 13 percent of their employees nationally from January 2020 to April 2022, according to an estimate from EAB, a higher education consulting firm.

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To Surmount Economic Inequality, Colleges Must Prepare Students for Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“These findings are consistent with research on earlier cohorts, [which] suggests that closing gaps in academic preparation is key to making progress on college enrollment gaps,” said report co-author Sarah Reber, the Joseph A. Dr. Lindsay Page, the Annenberg associate professor of education policy at Brown University. “We