Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

This surge likely reflects increased scrutiny from federal and state governments over higher education practices and policies. Regulatory and legal compliance saw the most dramatic rise, jumping eight percentage points to become the fifth-highest concern. out of 7 respectively.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Researchers Fear ‘Unintended Consequences’ of Plan to Lower Drug Prices kathryn.palmer… Tue, 02/13/2024 - 03:00 AM They say the plan to allow a government agency to take control of high-priced, federally funded inventions could undermine public-private research partnerships that spur technological innovation.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

1] Thanks to the generous support of Arnold Ventures, my graduate research assistant Holly Evans and I dove into whether colleges responded to being placed on the more severe HCM2 status by changing their financial priorities, closing, or influencing student debt and graduation outcomes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 25, 2023

Purdue University’s Military Family Research Institute (MFRI) will receive $5 million from Lilly Endowment Inc. Lilly Endowment is pleased that its support will help MFRI continue and enhance its important research efforts as well as the programs it has developed for the benefit of veterans and military families.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

On Wednesday, AAUP renewed their call to colleges and universities to fund and protect research and teaching that addresses social inequity and the needs of historically underrepresented groups.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Lawmakers Side With Universities Against Proposal That Could ‘Chill’ Research Partnerships kathryn.palmer… Wed, 02/28/2024 - 03:00 AM The National Institute of Standards and Technology is considering allowing government agencies to seize patents of high-priced, federally funded inventions. Byline(s) Kathryn Palmer

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

Nearly 100 Columbia University faculty members are criticizing the school’s plan to open a new research hub for professors and graduate students in Tel Aviv, Israel, citing the country’s human rights record and political situation, The New York Times reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

The ACPA Governing Board motioned for the then-Director of Research and Scholarship, Dr. Terrell Strayhorn, to explore the merit and extent of this project. After engaging with a volunteer advisory board, the Governing Board approved the study. The program has since blossomed. Read about this year's award recipients here.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of higher education, the role of governing boards, such as the Board of Trustees, is of paramount importance. I define academic acumen as a wide range of knowledge and skills related to teaching, research, and knowledge creation within the higher education context.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The new research center will be housed at Kellogg, bringing together top academics and leading thinkers to conduct research, identify best practices, and train students and leaders on how to engage across difference and harness the power of diverse perspectives. Schapiro Institute for Policy Research Faculty Fellow at Northwestern.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

And he is doing his part as director of policy and advocacy in California at The Institute for College Access and Success (TICAS), an independent, nonprofit research and policy organization. The pivot coincided with a friend’s involvement in the Capital Fellows Program in Sacramento, California, where Rodriguez earned an executive fellowship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Four research questions were developed. Erin Dunlop Velez, director of educational research at RTI International and one of the report’s authors. If you’re going to a public flagship, you’re probably getting a tuition waiver and some kind of stipend because you’re teaching or doing research,” said Velez. Dr. Lorelle L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver's legacy will continue to inspire our center as we expand access to public service as a profession and promote research and public policy that confronts systemic inequalities,” said Dr. James Jones, a sociology and Africana Studies professor at Rutgers-Newark and co-director of the Sheila Y. Oliver , who died while in office Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

AAMC Center for Health Justice Rising Tide — compiled by the center’s Environmental Justice Fellow Anthony Nicome, Director of Research Dr. Carla S. The AAMC Center for Health Justice polled 3,207 U.S. adults to gauge their perspectives on climate change, its impacts, and actions that could be taken toward mitigation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

The two-year program will be fully online catering to working professionals from various fields such as education, the nonprofit sector, and government. As the program progresses, students will develop a research project related to their organization. The program consists of a minimum of 16 three-hour courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

is intent on utilizing research to examine poverty as a barrier to student development. During that time, he did research on income segregation, which motivated him toward his current focus. In addition to being a graduate research assistant at Texas, he was part of the Graduate Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

About 30% of African American STEM professionals begin their higher education at a Historically Black College or University, according to the United Negro College Fund, but only around 1% of the Defense Department’s research funding is directed towards HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. This week, the U.S. This week, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

There is institutional focus on achieving Research One status. There is a second-year experience in which students are strongly encouraged to engage in a high-impact practice, such as research with faculty or service learning, which increase persistence. Two is the research funding, then research personnel.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 6, 2023

Colleges and universities generate vast amounts of data every day, spanning from the research findings of their scholars to the log-in times of their students to learning management systems. Borgman, distinguished research professor in information studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, one of the study’s authors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Dr. Katharine Meyer, fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the nonprofit Brookings Institution. Filing is down across the country,” said Dr. Katharine Meyer, a fellow in the Governance Studies program at the Brown Center on Education Policy at the nonprofit Brookings Institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

It is aimed at cultivating educational exchanges in collaboration with the Government of Kenya, the U.S., Microsoft will invest $500,000 to support HBCU and Kenyan students engaged in research at the Microsoft Africa Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya. Microsoft, and Mastercard’s Center for Inclusive Growth.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

Now, Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce has released a report on the potential impacts of the decision and how higher ed and governments can react. The CEW also proposes a bold admissions reform that the governments could make: requiring that every college enroll at least 20% Pell grant recipients.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization. In 2018 the U.S.

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

In Manchester last week we celebrated 20 years since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of graphene by researchers at the University of Manchester.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Estela Bensimon, professor emeritus and founding director of the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California, and president of Bensimon & Associates, an equity research group. What we’ll need now are presidents of color who can think of alternative ways to continue our racial justice journey.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2023

Previously, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona; vice president for research and innovation and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon; and faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. In 2022, Espy was a San Antonio Business Journal Women’s Leadership Award winner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2023

That’s the topline finding from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Spring 2023 Current Term Enrollment Estimate report. However, undergraduate enrollment at non-profit four-year institutions continued its decline, dropping 0.5% at public schools and 0.2% at private ones.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

“By codifying the program, it gives institutions something to look forward to annually as a source that they may be able to tap, assuming they qualify, for much needed resources,” said Kelly Leon, vice president of communications and government relations for the Institute for Higher Education Policy (IHEP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

But other burdens abound, including FAFSA Verification, in which students have to prove the truth of the information that they submitted on their financial aid form (and which research has shown has little impact), and applications for other sorts of aid. But Gándara hoped that it would have more influence.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2023

Richard Forno TikTok and Chinese company ByteDance has been gaining attention for connections with Chinese state media and potential influence from the Chinese government. Blocking TikTok on government systems, devices, and networks can help,” Forno said. The company was even reported to have been tracking and spying on journalists.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

Department of Agriculture National Institute of Food and Agriculture plans to invest nearly $1 million in a new project at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University to help advance environmental justice in agriculture through the school’s Agricultural and Food Research Initiative (AFRI.) A&T,” said Torres Small.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Amelia Parnell, vice president for research and policy at NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education was named the organization’s president. Parnell begins her term July 1, succeeding Dr. Kevin Kruger, who has held the post since 2012.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The conference theme this year is humanizing higher education, and hundreds of scholars from across the country gathered here to share their research, resources, and make connections. Government and non-profit internships were also less likely to pay their interns versus the for-profit industry. “At

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Taking a hard look yields conversation and research that then become the foundation for the future of public higher education. “To In terms of connecting with the local community, she recently joined the Board of Governors of the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce as well as making a point to meet local government officials. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

“Many of the technical or trade roles have been developed for and by men, creating systems that are not inclusive or welcoming of women or minority groups,” said Dr. Laura Lara-Brady, senior project manager at WestEd, a nonprofit research group working toward educational equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Lomax UNCF’s new research report, Transforming Futures: The Economic Engines of HBCUs , offers empirical evidence of the profound impact HBCUs have on the success of students, communities and the nation as a whole. And as our research has found, every dollar spent, and every job created comes with a multiplier that extends its impact.

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