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Report Calls for Reforming Graduate School Debt and Data Collection

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It proposes a transparent analysis of graduate degree earnings potential to inform loan distribution, repayment, and potential students as they consider taking the next step in their postsecondary journey. Artem Gulish, senior federal policy advisor at CEW and one of the authors of the report.

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Advancing Black Males in STEM is My Passion — Here’s How I Got There

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Black males need support from childhood through graduate education to improve, fulfill, and correct inequitable access to careers in science and engineering. Video 3 (“Breaking Through”) provides information for K-12 teachers committed to reaching their Black male students and helping them succeed.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”

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2025 MIT Research SLAM to award $10k in prizes

CAPD

Thanks to generous support from the Office of Graduate Education (OGE) and the Office of the Vice President for Research (OVPR) , the Research Slam planning team recently announced that $10,000.00 in prizes would be awarded to finalists at the 2025 MIT Research Slam! for 1st place $1,500.00 for 2nd place $750.00 for 3rd place $500.00

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Preparing Students for Future Work Using Narrative Approaches

The Scholarly Teacher

Educators, including student affairs professionals, can play important roles as career influencers as students embark on these considerations (Stebleton & Ho, 2023). Ho (2019) defined career influencers as “post-secondary professionals who informally provide career-related advice, guidance, and/or counselling” (p.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Reflecting on my own journey during this era, from my undergraduate studies at Alabama A&M University to my graduate education at Virginia State University and Indiana University of Pennsylvania, I experienced firsthand the evolving landscape of higher education.

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Mentors should be gate openers, not gatekeepers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Recently, those of us who serve as McNair Scholars directors around the nation were informed that some faculty members become frustrated when participating students don’t send a thank-you note (or email) after spending time with them. Faculty members are often gatekeepers to our scholars’ entrance and success in graduate school.