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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And despite chronic and discriminatory under-funding, HBCUs have stood as the greatest driver of social and economic mobility of Black Americans in the country. HBCUs receive less than 1% of federal research funding and development grants, and less than their share of state and federal funding overall.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million students of color, these institutions can be instrumental in attracting, developing and inspiring the diverse educator corps our nation needs. Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. With a combined enrollment of 1.9

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Advancing Social Justice Through Scholarly Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Joyce Payne is founder of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), the national advocacy organization designed to support students who attend the 47 publicly supported HBCUs. Those areas were developed through research and interviews with research scholars, thought leaders, and practitioners. Williams, president and CEO of TMCF.

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Rural-Serving Institutions: Innovative Lessons for Higher Ed Success: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 147 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Andrew Koricich

The Change Leader, Inc.

Public RSIs are more dependent on state appropriations but receive fewer appropriations per student because state funding metrics focus on enrollment growth, which is more constrained. In addition, RSIs receive fewer donations and competitive federal grants because reviewers from federal agencies don’t understand them.

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Leveraging PEP and EMI Data to Improve Institutional Value and Student ROI: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 173 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Michael Itzkowitz

The Change Leader, Inc.

To measure ROI for higher education graduates, Michael developed the Price-to-Earnings Premium (PEP) for Third Way. In addition to the PEP, Michael developed the Economic Mobility Index (EMI) , with and for thirdway.org , to examine the top schools serving low-income students across the U.S. to gauge how they are doing.

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College 2023

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Ill-functioning systems of campus governance. ” Parents, prospective students, accreditors and government need more data, not less. Public and foundation funding should better align with student needs. For reasons that we all know full well: inertia. Narrow self-interest. Misguided incentives. Professional socialization.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. Government action will not stem the rivalry. Kimball Sarah M. Iler Is this diversity newsletter?: