Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2024

Almost 50 higher education associations and state systems have signed on in support of the voting brief, including the American Council on Education, Achieving the Dream, Excelencia in Education, and Diverse: Issues In Higher Education. This is a nonpartisan effort. But it will,” said Boggs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

“Through our ongoing partnership, we are committed to taking education and corporate America higher by advancing academic research, ensuring student success at publicly supported HBCUs and serving as a liaison to the federal government and local officials for our members and their students.” Nicholas D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

Although the pandemic has negatively impacted enrollment across the world of higher education, the drops for minoritized men at community colleges have been especially precipitous. African Americans and Native Americans have been particularly affected, suffering declines of 24% and 26% respectively between fall 2019 and fall 2021.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 5, 2023

It will change higher education forever. Eroding public confidence in higher education. As I read the higher ed press, I try to find the trendline. Is it that higher education is reeling, that past failures are coming home to roost, and the long-anticipated day of reckoning has at last arrived?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Defenders of anti-racism in higher education have had a hellacious year. Between 2022 and 2023, government entities introduced 57 measures to restrict the teaching of critical race theory in colleges and universities. But experts warn that conservative attacks on higher education aren’t going away any time soon.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

DECEMBER 26, 2023

26 December · Episode 187 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and 2024 Predictions 55 Min · By Dr. Drumm McNaughton Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024. Join us in our 2023 Higher Education Year in Review and Predictions for 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2024

As we work tirelessly to navigate the polarizing currents of the 2024 election year, witnessing the gross erosion of DEI initiatives and the rollback of affirmative action, the pivotal role of these institutions and leaders becomes even more crucial.” Terrell L Strayhorn, director of the Center for the Study of HBCUs at Virginia Union. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2024

It’s also a painful reminder that on this day, that honors a man whom the federal government once tried to destroy and who was excoriated by the general populous of the United States, we still are in discussion about the brilliance of Black people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Ohio State University announced Thursday it will close its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and modify scholarship programs geared toward diverse student populations, citing pressure from federal directives and pending state legislation. All of higher education is facing a challenging environment," Carter added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2025

You have walked away from equity," Sharpton wrote, arguing that removing DEI hiring and retention goals and dismantling community partnerships with minority organizations "are clear signals that political pressure has outweighed principle." Not to think about it, to reverse course on walking away from DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

higher education sector from stable to negative, citing recent and potential federal policy changes that have created a more difficult operating environment for colleges and universities nationwide. Staff reductions at the Department of Education (ED) pose another significant threat.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Department of Education has placed dozens of employees on paid administrative leave following President Donald J. Trump's executive order targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in federal government, affecting workers who previously participated in diversity training initiatives.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Higher education leaders everywhere are scrambling to understand how recent orders by President Donald Trump’s administration to forego initiatives related to diversity, equity and inclusion impact their institutions. Here are some institutions that have already taken steps to distance themselves from DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

That said, a politicized attack on higher education is not the answer. It also demonstrates that the lines of attack on higher education are not just about antisemitism. These were not easy times and colleges and universities could have done better. And our students deserve that.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2025

Trump that sought to end diversity, equity and inclusion policies and programs among federal government grantees and contractors, which includes most colleges and universities. Its fundamentally at odds with what the mission of higher education should be, which is the search for knowledge that serves the common good.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2025

Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a block on executive orders issued by President Donald Trump seeking to end government support for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs. The Associated Press reported that on Friday, the 4th U.S. The appeals court decision lifts a nationwide injunction issued by U.S.

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The Change Leader, Inc.

MARCH 25, 2025

With massive staff reductions, rollback of key civil rights regulations, and a stunning shift of student loan collection authority to the Small Business Administration, higher education institutions now face a regulatory landscape unlike any before. However, civil rights functions extend well beyond DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

This is not a natural death but a political assassination, co-authored by right-wing disinformation machines and a federal government, including the president himself, that is hellbent on dismantling the very institutions meant to serve the people. The scapegoating of DEI for the recent aircraft disaster at Reagan National Airport.

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University Business

JANUARY 28, 2025

A litany of executive orders from President Donald Trump during his first week in office are upending higher education’s status quo from the past four years. This is a running article covering Trump’s impact on higher education during his second term in office and will be continuously updated.

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University Business

MARCH 12, 2025

. “Our primary concern is the lack of transparency about which functional areas are being cut, why specific departments have been selected for dismantling, and how the transition will be managed without disruption to students or the nations institutions of higher education,” NASFAA Interim President and CEO Beth Maglione said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2025

But now my heartaches, when I see the federal government is not only keeping the door shut, its eviscerating the office, and its founding philosophy intended to help minorities and people of color get a fair shake. Some states had already banned what was rebranded as DEI. Does he even know DEI is God in Latin?

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University Business

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Wall Street Journal reports that the Department of Education is the next target of Elon Musk and his Department of Government Efficiency’s (DOGE) program to shrink the federal government. Department of Education and the K12 and higher education systems.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

Trump issued a sweeping executive order Monday evening aimed at dismantling all diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives across federal President Donald Trump agencies, sparking immediate criticism from civil rights organizations and business leaders.

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Higher Education Inquirer

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Black people must be discerning about racist attacks on DEI programs while also acknowledging that diversity can be a con that damages Black politics, just as it was meant to do. In this instance, Sharptons theatrics were inspired by the corporations which discontinued their Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

19) Over $1 billion worth of contracts with education nonprofits have gone up in flames over the past 10 days, and public institutions may soon need to close DEI-related programming, according to another wave of executive orders from President Donald Trump. Institutions must comply with civil rights laws or risk losing federal funding.

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