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DECEMBER 14, 2022

It’s vital that we build a strong talent pool to fill critical roles within the federal government and that reflect the future workforce of this nation.”

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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. But enrollment is just the first step in the journey toward servingness.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s our job at VA and across the federal government to deliver on that promise, making sure that veterans and their families not only have access to affordable education through the GI Bill – but also that they are protected from education fraud and abuse. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Secretary Denis McDonough.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The federal government should be offering commonsense resources to better prepare borrowers,” Grassley said. “I often hear from Iowa families who are frustrated and confused by the complex student loan borrowing process. So much of the student debt conversation focuses on repaying debt.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Sylvia Burwell Burwell had an unusual background for a college president, never having been a professor, a dean, or a provost, and never having earned an advanced degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

Leaders will speak on the connection between book bans, anti-CRT or “anti-woke” laws, and the suppression of other civil liberties and social justice values as part of a coordinated far-right effort to extinguish civil rights at all levels of federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

Researchers from the University of Oregon (UO) have earned a $3 million grant from the federal government to help tackle global warming, while incorporating the insights of rural and Indigenous communities which are often left out of decisions about what happens around them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2024

The exception that proves the rule, Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend has pointed out that unlike every other part of the federal government, the IRS makes virtually no effort to identify — much less to prevent — racial discrimination in its enforcement efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our federal government invests billions of dollars every year in higher education but often isn’t sure if those dollars have achieved their intended impact,” said David Medina , RFA co-founder and chief operating officer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Simmons will deliver the 2023 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the highest honor from the federal government for distinguished intellectual achievement in the humanities. Dr. Ruth J. Simmons The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) lecture – “Facing History to Find a Better Future” – will take place 7 p.m.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

For the last two years, my staff and I have been in the trenches, battling a fusillade of challenges brought on by our federal government, challenges that exacerbate the longstanding inequities students face as they navigate their path to a college degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in a letter to the school’s president, Dr. Linda Livingstone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government. In addition to being a graduate research assistant at Texas, he was part of the Graduate Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C., He currently is also a graduate research assistant with the Center for Community College Student Engagement.

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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. The challenges of the pandemic amplified these issues and the urgency to finally address them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Local, state and federal governments can collect more accurate data they can then use to create policies and dedicate resources to support education and workforce development that meets the needs of their industries and residents.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The task force, a group of lawmakers from 32 states, wants states and the federal government to work together more to make college a better return on investment. The cost of college continues to rise. The student debt crisis has gained national infamy. A bachelor’s degree no longer guarantees a stable career.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 15, 2024

Nearly 30 percent of borrowers were past due on their student loan payments in January of this year, a few months after the federal government lifted the pause on payments, the U.S. Government Accountability Office found in a new report.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The federal government made various promises about educating tribespeople, but was more focused on assimilation, an approach nicknamed “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As concerns about college affordability and the economic burden of student loan debt grow, some experts say it might be time not only to boost the budget for federal financial aid but also to go back to the drawing board on how that aid is allocated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government. “We need to better resource the institutions where these students are going—the non-profit institutions that are not top tier R1s,” she added. They’re not in turn able to fund their students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The federal government and national, regional, and local organizations have weighed in, too. There are many responses to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. People are already declaring a “post-affirmative action era” while still weighing the scales of benefit from new approaches to equity, justice… and admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Washington has gone from negative to positive to negative to positive again on network neutrality, and advocates for educators say they need to see the federal government commit to making open networks a policy priority. “It

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JUNE 20, 2024

“It screamed loudly that it’s not that the ECE community doesn’t want to upscale, it’s that, until we figure out pay equity, the investment in education isn’t possible without some kind of commitment from state or federal government to say, ‘While we work on pay equity, we’ll help you upscale,’” said Meeker.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the federal government tries to streamline financial aid, things wind up becoming more complicated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Burmicky suggested that while students and schools wait for the federal government, institutionsshould proactively communicate to its prospective students to reassure them that their aid packages are still to come and to make them aware of other kinds of institutional and merit-based aid.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

The cash came, for the most part, from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, a multibillion dollar allocation from the federal government that was necessary to allow learning to continue and was critical to keeping many institutions afloat through unprecedented times.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most receive no money from their home states, and relatively little from the federal government. TCUs are one of the strongest engines of success for Native students: those who attend a two-year TCU are four times likelier to earn a bachelor’s degree than those who attend a mainstream four-year institution out of high school.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The NSA is the lead agency in the federal government when it comes to any matters relating to cybersecurity,” Mac Namee said.

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The Guardian Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Federal government overhaul to remove close to $20bn of student debt for 3 million Australians Get our breaking news email , free app or daily news podcast All Australians will have their student debt cut by 20% next financial year, as part of a major federal government overhaul designed to boost access to education and address “intergenerational unfairness”. (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

“I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. the involvement of the federal government in the assassinations of Black civil rights leaders, and more. She spent four years gathering evidence on police brutality, incarceration, the 1921 race massacre in Tulsa, Okla.,

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AUGUST 8, 2023

She suggested in the report that the federal government make the research and extension grant programs for TCUs formula-funded capacity grant programs guaranteed to all 1994s, adding that 75% of remaining tribal land is agricultural or forested.

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MAY 15, 2024

That was the job of federal government to ensure that the ruling was followed. It was also the responsibility of the states to follow federal rulings in that way.” Some federal enforcement did still occur.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

For research institutions that work with the federal government — and specifically the Department of Defense — the stakes are even higher. Those colleges and universities are entrusted with information few others are granted access to, and that reality was the impetus behind…

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

AUGUST 11, 2023

The federal government halted human research at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, the Columbia University psychiatry department’s flagship site, following a study participant’s suicide, The New York Times revealed Thursday.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

We compared colleges placed on HCM2 to colleges that were not on HCM2, but had failed the federal financial responsibility metric (and thus also had issues identified by the federal government). It was a lot of work for no clear findings, but that is pretty typical when studying institutional responses to government policies.

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