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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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Fidelity Matters: Assessing Anti-Racism/Anti-Oppression in P-12 and Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In our quest for anti-racist academic organizations from preschool to higher education, we have urged educators to develop competencies - dispositions, knowledge, and skills - to put philosophy into practice. Lessons learned from community consultations have also been incorporated into this tool (p.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Strayhorn few years ago, Liu (2023) published, Everyone is Talking about Belonging in The Chronicle of Higher Education. There can be no question that this reflects a growing infrastructure to support belonging for all faculty, staff, and students in higher education. A Dr. Terrell L. Dr. Terrell L.

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Carnegie Classifications Unveils Major Redesign to Better Reflect Student Success

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higher education institutions, unveiled a significant redesign today that fundamentally changes how colleges and universities are classified and evaluated. This focus on student outcomes reflects growing concerns about higher education's return on investment amid rising costs and student debt.

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How Incarceration Impacts the Basic Needs of Loved Ones & Families

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These family members are a largely invisible population within the basic needs movement in higher education. They are caregivers, financial supporters, and students navigating higher education under immense pressure.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The event offered pro-bono legal consultations and support from community organizations providing social services, health care, financial services, and employment. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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Cultivating Tomorrow’s HBCU Leaders: The H.E.L.F. Foundation Effect

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and others created the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.) The impact has yielded outstanding dividends, with cohort members hiring each other, publishing together, starting consultancies together and encouraging each other to go on to complete their Ph.Ds. When Dr. Herman J. Once an individual becomes a H.E.L.F.