Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 4, 2025
Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The issues closest to my heart—those that affect our students and education equity—are being largely ignored by the presidential candidates. Repeatedly, we call for “someone” to show us, through better education policy, that we are not forgotten.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2025
Yolanda Watson Spivas 25+ year career in postsecondary education spans a range of executive leadership, general management, federal government, public affairs, operations and academic officer positions. Department of Education in Washington, DC, and Atlanta, GA. Watson Spiva has also held various positions with the U.S.
Ed.gov Blog
MARCH 5, 2025
By: Scott Yenor In 1982, President Ronald Reagan proposed dismantling the Department of Education, an agency barely two years old. Americans were not accustomed to such a massive role for the federal government in education, which had always Continue Reading The post Education: Whose Job Is It?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 8, 2025
We've been under attack around the federal government. Anthony, who leads Prairie State Collegeboth a Predominantly Black Institution and Hispanic-serving Institution about 30 miles from Chicagohighlighted the increasingly polarized context in which DEI work takes place. Following the panel discussion, Dr.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
During the ensuing years, HBCUs received what most consider unprecedented levels of funding from the federal government as well as a groundswell of support from donors. Together, we must hold our country’s leaders accountable and demand equity in education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 15, 2024
Board of Education decision. Supreme Court unanimously ruled in May 1954 that separate educational facilities between Black students and white students was “inherently unequal," dismissing the concept of “separate but equal” in public education, the nation began the task of desegregating its schools. Seven decades ago, U.S.
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