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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend.

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Rethinking the Idea of Legacy in Higher Education: How Colleges Can Raise Up Student-Parents

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Legacy admissions has an even more corrosive influence: It widens equity gaps in higher education. Jaye Fenderson There is, however, another group of children who have received much less consideration in higher education but will have a profound impact on its future: the children of student-parents.

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Federal Fumbles and Candidate Silence. How the Next Administration Can Support Education Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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College Students Face Widespread Basic Needs Insecurity, New Report Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The "Student Basic Needs Survey Report," which analyzed responses from over 74,000 students across 91 colleges in 16 states, reveals alarming rates of food insecurity, housing instability, and mental health challenges among today's college students. The survey reveals significant disparities among different student populations.

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Report Details How Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act Could Better Serve Students of Color and Low-Income Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new report released by The Education Trust titled, “Improving Titles III & V of the Higher Education Act to Better Serve Students of Color and Students from Low-Income Backgrounds” examines how Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs) receive funds related to Titles III and V of the Higher Education Act (HEA). Dr. Kayla C.

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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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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In Stephanie Land’s brave and important new book CLASS ( a follow-up to her memoir MAID , the basis for an award-winning Netflix series) she explains that even though she knew a college degree was the best chance she and her 6-year-old daughter had of escaping poverty, being deprived of food made it nearly impossible. The U.S.D.A.

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