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Higher Ed Leaders Rally to Protect DEI Initiatives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coleman, who has over three decades of experience in inclusion work, emphasized the importance of strong communications and media representation in defending DEI efforts. We've been under attack around the federal government. Lisa Coleman, the first female and first Black president of Adler University.

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Trade Commission Sues Grand Canyon University for Deceptive Advertising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

it is baffling that the federal government has chosen to target a Christian university that is addressing those issues in very positive ways," the university said in a statement. GCE advertised on websites and social media urging prospective students to submit their contact information on digital forms, according to FTC filings.

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Baylor Confirms Exemption from Title IX Claims

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Lori Fogleman, Baylor’s assistant vice president of media and public relations, said in a statement that “Baylor is responding to current considerations by the U.S. Department of Education to move to an expanded definition of sexual harassment, which could infringe on Baylor’s rights under the U.S.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. Recruitment is done through professional organizations and media. After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts.

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Most popular stories: Here is UB’s top 10 for 2024

University Business

College applicants dispel 3 narratives currently hounding higher education Higher education leaders frequently cite the pressure they have to deal with from a skeptical public, media and even state and federal governments. Read the story.

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When Banks Lost Control of the Student Loan Mess

Higher Education Inquirer

This lesson is especially important if the US government decides to get out of the student loan business or reduce government oversight of student loans. From 1965 to 2010, the federal government was a backstop for private student loans, Guaranteed Student Loans, also known as the FFEL loans.

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Updated educational attainment data show progress and gaps

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” At the same time, “these data really reinforce our urgent need to speed up progress, especially knowing that tomorrow’s students, our future leaders, will be even more racially, socially and generationally diverse,” Brown said in a media briefing Monday. ” The recent data show 53.7 percent in 2019.

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