Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

My journey from the barrios of Albuquerque to a career in higher education is a testament to the power of commitment—and coaching. This simple enrollment threshold, coupled with an increase in the Latine population in higher education, has caused the ranks of HSIs to swell — from less than 200 in 1990, when the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP) and Results for America (RFA) released recommendations for the Department of Education (ED) to set-aside 0.5% of funds from certain Higher Education Act (HEA) programs within ED and put it towards supporting equity-focused work.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

“Veterans and their families deserve the very best education America has to offer,” said U.S. Today, we’re raising the bar for oversight and accountability for colleges and career schools that prioritize profiting off federal financial aid programs over preparing students for success in the workforce,” said U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

The federal government should be offering commonsense resources to better prepare borrowers,” Grassley said. These bills would provide additional counseling, resources and clarity to the student loan process so that America’s next generation of leaders can pursue higher education opportunities without breaking the bank.”

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 25, 2024

Education Department (ED) said it has discovered a calculation error in student financial aid applications sent to colleges this month and will need to reprocess them, potentially continuing delays for college applications.

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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

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Moreover, institutions, employers and labor markets often don’t recognize the diverse and multiple avenues for acquiring knowledge and skills — such as work and military experience, community activities, short-term training, and other alternatives to traditional college programs — that take place outside of higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Individuals committed to community colleges and the vital role they play in American higher education continue to advocate for the students and the institutions that serve them. The purpose of community colleges is to increase access to higher education for the most vulnerable populations.” Dr. Everrett A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

“I was working in a non-Indian community, not building new relationships with American Indian education professionals, and not really focusing much of my work around those topics.” The history of Native education in the United States is fraught with dispossession.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The federal government responded to the changing higher education landscape in the early part of this decade by making significant grant funds available to colleges and universities to promote student safety and help institutions offer remote and hybrid instruction.

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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

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

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. MSU Denver’s effort to uplift underrepresented communities also extend to neurodivergent students, Mac Namee said.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 2, 2023

In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education. Most receive no money from their home states, and relatively little from the federal government.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Racial exclusion from this nation's institutions of higher education has been the norm throughout the vast history of the U.S., There is something that we can do right now to ensure Black students and other students of color do not lose access to higher education that actually improves their lives. We can change that.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

JULY 31, 2024

Colleges and universities have spent more than $1 billion on educational technology since 2020, making enormous investments focused on improving the quality of remote learning and eventually expanding into student tech, campus safety tools and much more.

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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

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. And that's still being debated,” Neufville said.

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The Guardian Higher Education

DECEMBER 5, 2022

It is by far the largest and most important strike in the history of American higher education, with the potential to transform both the status and income of those who work in an “industry” that now employs more workers than the federal government.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. This seems like an obscure topic, but it affects a substantial portion of American higher education.

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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

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Gavin Newsom Undocumented students in California’s higher education system may soon be able to get a job in California’s public universities and colleges. He says the idea for the bill came “from the failure of the federal government regarding immigration policy, especially when it comes to young people who often come here as infants.”

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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

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

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

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University Business

JANUARY 5, 2024

Prior to his career in higher education, Sastry spent 18 years working in the federal government. The post Georgetown welcomes higher education financial leader, alumnus as new CFO appeared first on University Business. He served as the director of the Office of U.S. Read more from Georgetown University.

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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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