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MARCH 13, 2025

Meanwhile, research increasingly shows that comprehensive support services like counseling, basic needs assistance, and mental health care directly impact student achievement, especially for historically underserved populations.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Her experience reflects the findings of a 2021 Pew Research survey, that showed that women often face significant financial barriers to completing their degrees. Theres definitely pressure to succeed academically in our community, says Chen. But it wasnt easy. I worked two jobs throughout college to make it happen.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

We’ve developed two different evidence-based frameworks to address this lack of connection early in community college students’ careers: Caring Campus at the Institute for Evidence-Based Change (IEBC), where Petty is a coach, and the Ask-Connect-Inspire-Plan (ACIP) framework at the Community College Research Center. Dr. Brad C.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The College Fund conducts research and publishes reports addressing issues facing indigenous students in higher education. This fall, Minnesota launched North Star Promise with a promise about free tuition. But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds.

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JUNE 13, 2024

So, Ithaka S+R, a research organization that promotes student success and access to higher education, and the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) teamed up to compile standing research on postsecondary institutions and civic engagement to find out what is really going on behind the scenes.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

If you focus on minoritized populations, there’s a lack of understanding about why this research is relevant,” she says. We have to find those pockets of other researchers who are doing this work and creating spaces for ourselves,” she says. The experience was isolating. And they weren’t looking to just hire one. Dr. Candace N.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2023

I also have a piece in this issue entitled ‘ Definitions of the Terms Open, Distance, and Flexible in the Context of Formal and Non-Formal Learning ‘ Issue 26 (2) of the Journal of Open, Flexible and Distance Learning (JOFDL) is now available to the world. Alison Fields and Simon Paul Atkinson, JOFDL Joint Editors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Further, the manner in which conservative media embraces the study gives a compelling glimpse at anti-CRT proponents’ operational definition of CRT. It is a clear and undeniable fact that has been demonstrated by research and lived experience. Similarly, unconscious bias is a term that is firmly established through research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

He fears that the attacks on diversity will likely increase as the 2024 presidential election grows nearer. “I am definitely concerned, but that’s why I wanted to be in this space,” said Foster. I am very big on resiliency research, HBCUs and mental health. There is something for everyone at this conference.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

The annual survey results were released today by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) in a research brief. Smaller outright gifts tended to be restricted to current operations, with the largest percentage earmarked for research. Although this represents a 2.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

While PSLF already offers relief to ECE employees of nonprofit institutions, that’s not where the majority of ECE workers are employed, said Mark Kantrowitz, author of How to Appeal for More College Financial Aid and director of the Research Science Institute, a summer research program for high schoolers at MIT.

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JULY 7, 2023

There is considerable research generated about African Americans in higher education, specifically faculty. Yet there is little research on the underrepresentation of African American community college trustees. Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2024

University of California Los Angeles University of California Los Angeles Minority groups experienced gains relative to their white counterparts in all key Hollywood employment arenas examined in the streaming film sector, according to a new report from the Institute for Research on Labor and Employment at UCLA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

This indicates an increase compared with last year and the years when the pandemic was in full swing, said Dr. Mary Gatta, director of research and public policy at NACE. They still use virtual modalities but college recruiting definitely is up close and personal now, on campus," Gatta said. recruiters in 2023, down from 9.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2023

schools, establishing a definition of PE as an activity or academic course pertaining to health, wellness, sports, or physical activity, including “conceptual” PE courses emphasizing health behavior strategies for lifelong physical activity lifestyles. Researchers found that 56.2% of institutions did not require PE; 31.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

I know there are students out there that could definitely succeed, they just need the resources. Her research explores strategies to create opportunities for students from marginalized communities, addressing systemic challenges that hinder access to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This unprecedented move entailed more than a hundred teaching and research assistants being notified Feb. It has definitely angered and energized a lot of people.” The students have been striking due to failing negotiations about wages and health-care coverage for dependents, and parental leave duration. 8 statement.

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Hope College Network

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

This summer, I was blessed with the opportunity to do Global Health research here on campus at Hope. People keep asking me what, exactly, my work entailed when I say I was on campus this summer… so here’s a blog detailing all things RESEARCH! My Experience My eight weeks of research were one-on-one with my advisor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

That’s really the next step in this line of research,” said Dr. Leah Daigle, co-author and professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology in the GSU Andrew Young School of Policy Studies. This study demonstrates that the problem exists, but it doesn’t really explore the why. But that’s not what our study shows.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities generate vast amounts of data every day, spanning from the research findings of their scholars to the log-in times of their students to learning management systems. Borgman, distinguished research professor in information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of the study’s authors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

The Department of Education has confirmed that Baylor University, the Baptist research institution in Waco, Texas, is immune from certain Title IX complaints “to the extent that they are inconsistent with the University’s religious tenets,” wrote Catherine E. Linda Livingstone. The confirmation follows other Title IX trouble for Baylor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

I definitely didn’t think I was going to be a law professor, but I always wanted to be a teacher,” she says. Gowder, a Professor of Law and associate dean of research and intellectual life at Northwestern’s Pritzker School of Law. “I grew up in Los Angeles in the early 1990s, and we had Johnnie Cochran on T.V.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 26, 2023

Such exchanges help them see for themselves that understanding requires more than the ability to recall a basic definition from a textbook. Introduction What is the first thing you think about when you consider the Socratic method? Follow-up questions and new examples encourage students to revisit and reconsider answers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

R ob Shomaker, senior vice president of the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) agreed, pointing to research showing that 67% of higher ed employees were working more than full-time hours. Pope-Ruark emphasized that training for administrators on the psychological definition of burnout is necessary.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Dr. Mike Hoa Nguyen, an assistant professor of education at NYU, praised this inclusion of a requirement to evaluate work through rigorous research. There are capacity challenges related to the research and evaluation requirements,” Chandler said. “We Faculty's working conditions are students' learning conditions,” Kezar told Diverse.

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Parchment

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

We are joined by Tatiana Velaso, Senior Research Associate at the Community College Research Center to discuss the latest research into the postsecondary outcomes of dual enrollment students. Transcript Matthew Sterenberg (00:01.337) All right, I’m here with Tatiana from the Community College Research Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Research has shown that underrepresented minorities, including women, are more likely to introduce innovative concepts — albeit fewer accepted concepts compared to those of white men. Women now receive around 40% of STEM PhDs — far from parity but a definite improvement. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2024

Building off of its decades-old Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African American Studies, the New York state private research university established its Black studies department in late 2022 , an endeavor headed by McCune, an associate professor of Black studies. McCune, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

Two sessions continued on Thursday during the second and final day of the Black Men Research Institute’s (BMRI) Spring Symposium. Morehouse psychology student Steven Riley responded to what he learned from Watkins’ research. “I These conversations are needed,” said Dr. Walter M. Kimbrough, Interim Executive Director of BMRI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Lesley’s vision and actions have resulted in a top-tier program capable of service and research.” Shawler said she knew in high school what her general area of research would be. “I She called it “definitely a unique experience that allowed me to meet well-known behavior analysts.” The real mistake is to stop trying.”

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For every dollar the federal government invests in childcare for single-mother students, research shows a projected return of 430 percent in increased tax contributions and reduced public assistance. One review of data collection efforts by the Urban Institute found that no two definitions were the same. I felt like giving up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Learning, performing, teaching, and doing research are very fulfilling to Yuen. He is building his skills as an educator and researcher on subjects related to music theory and the history of brass instrumental music. When he arrived at UK and began taking music theory courses, his goals expanded.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

We know that that attrition measure isn't just picking up on academic attrition,” said Tiffane Cochran, AccessLex’s vice president for research. “It The law school application process] was definitely very intimidating,” Terrel said. Some measures of academic success also declined for law students of color in 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 7, 2023

Now, for the first time, this population of almost 300,000 is being studied, as researchers look for clues about how to get these students on to campuses. However, the researchers found disparities in a variety of factors, including race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status, and education and career plans.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Department of Education first introduced the designation, to more than 570 today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The nuance of this definition should be noted, with a key emphasis on institutions. As a group of scholars and researchers we were interested in such a focus and established the #FatOnCampus research project. They refer both to individual bigoted beliefs as well as institutional policies designed to marginalize fat people.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

When Reagan Gonzalez began applying to law schools, she didn’t imagine that she would have to research the laws of the states to which she was thinking about moving. There’s enough research out there that shows that students perform better at campuses where they feel welcome and included.” Bodell is experiencing some of the stress.

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