Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In a groundbreaking achievement that marks a significant milestone for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), Howard University has become the first HBCU to receive the prestigious Research One (R1) Carnegie Classification, placing it among the nation's most elite research institutions. Dr. Bruce A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2025

Immediately, Dayshawn and I went into planning, says Jackson, Eight years later, Compton College is breaking ground on a 250+ bed housing facility, becoming the first community college in Los Angeles County to offer campus housing to its students. I give them the credit for it because they got me to think about it differently and what we could do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“Why do we have to have this big discussion each time, when we understand this philosophically?” Leonard and Laura Kennedy, an admissions officer at MSU, were tasked with researching institutions with similar initiatives. “We I thought it was brilliant. I think this makes MSU much more accessible than ever before,” adds Leonard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Originally established to exclude certain populations of students, legacy admissions provides a significant boost to children of ultrawealthy families who apply to elite institutions. Legacy admissions has an even more corrosive influence: It widens equity gaps in higher education. Nearly one-fourth of all college undergraduates — roughly 3.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Ford Now more than ever, race has become salient in politics, higher education, P-12, and the workforce, especially in this anti-DEI era. It is not uncommon for Black and other minoritized individuals to have feelings of anxiety about discussions around race, particularly for families (e.g., parents, caregivers, guardians, etc.).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Respondents to both CCSSE and SENSE report mental health concerns. 66% of the respondents to both surveys indicated being bothered by feeling nervous, anxious, or on edge. 30% of CCSSE respondents said they didn’t know where to go for mental health support and 42% reported not seeking mental health support despite feeling that they needed it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The Black Male Initiative (BMI) officially began in 2005, when the New York City Council approved funding for BMI throughout the whole of the City University of New York (CUNY) system, 25 institutions in total. Innovation And Growth The seeds of BMI were first planted in 2000 at Medgar Evers College, a CUNY institution in central Brooklyn.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Stillman, and his wife Susan, made the gift to support scholarships, faculty development, academic programs, and campus improvements. The endowments growth will help Stillman College maintain its competitive edge and expand opportunities for students to thrive academically and professionally. Dr. Charles M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“The idea was simply to create a space for individuals who were sincerely interested in committing their vocation and uplift to HBCUs. That was it,” says Felton, who is president of Wiley College—the private four-year HBCU located in Marshall, Texas. “At We knew we needed to take a step, and we were open to where the universe led us.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2025

Ellis Dear Caleb, I write this letter with a heavy heart, knowing that your life was cut tragically short due to the senseless and inexcusable act of hazing. The question now is not just how we grieve your loss but how we ensure that your death is the last of its kind. This cycle of trauma must end. Second, real accountability must be enforced.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2025

After the election of 2016 we thought America needed an upgrade, said Rev. Dr. Forrest Pritchett, who directs the universitys Martin Luther King, Jr. Leadership Program and Gospel Choir. We see it in the work that we do with the King collection and our Martin Luther King scholars. David Wall Rice, a psychology professor at Morehouse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

However, the NYT still made the decision to publish the incorrect statement. Similarly, when Chavous fact-checked more than 130 questions , the fact checked items were ignored in the final article. The low enrollment of Black students at flagship public universities, especially the “public Ivies”, has long been an issue in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

However, an external review found no evidence of financial mismanagement. Still, that fight was nothing compared to the stage IV colorectal cancer he had already faced at only 35. And similarly, it paled in comparison to the stage IV metastatic breast cancer diagnosis his wife, Sadiqa Kendi, received in 2023. Cole "cannot do." It's not always easy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

And if anyone happens to have a crystal ball, we’d love to borrow it, if only for a moment of clarity. Beth Slazak The hardest part of this post-election period may well be the pervasive uncertainty. What will this mean for education? Are we facing sweeping changes, or just subtle shifts? For many educators, this unknown is the heaviest burden.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

After more than four years as president of York College, City University of New York, in January 2024 she became the ninth president of California State University, Los Angeles (Cal State LA), the first woman to serve in the position. “I It is a dynamic, bold and good step in the right direction,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

We are attracting talent who see Coppin as a place where they can reach their educational goals is very humbling for me and my faculty and staff. The growing interest in Coppin, Jenkins says, has elevated its national recognition, including being listed as a top producer of HBCU students by Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Over 90% believe faculty should intentionally invite perspectives from all sides of an issue, and 70% say the level of respectful disagreement among their students is appropriate. More than half (53%) believe classroom discussion of controversial topics should be encouraged due to its educational value.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2024

“This report emphasizes the need for proactive measures to ensure that students’ personal information is only used for its intended educational purpose.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

But all along the way, Williams has worked at both public and private institutions—HBCUs and Predominantly White Institutions—that have become top producers of minoritized students. It took him awhile to connect the dots from his passion to higher education. Williams took a pay cut leaving the corporate world, but he knew it was worth it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

According to reports from The Wall Street Journal , recipients were addressed by name and bombarded with statements like: “You have been selected to pick cotton at the nearest plantation.” “Our Our executive slaves will come to your address in a black SUV.” The dystopic thing about modern racism is that it’s adaptive. We press forward.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

HAIRSTON: Growing up in a home that included my mother and one brother, I learned many life lessons. Watching my mother continuously work two and sometimes three jobs was normal life for me. It wasn’t until I became an adult that I realized that from all of the life lessons learned in our low income household, financial literacy was not one of them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Scholarship from the margins addresses perspectives that the mainstream overlooks or actively silences. Our voices not only tell untold stories but demand new ways of thinking. In a sense, the scholarship born of exile holds a mirror to society, challenging it to confront its own values, prejudices, and blind spots.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

After graduating, he studied at Pierce College (a community college), majoring in psychology because he wanted to become a high school counselor. Liera then transferred to San Diego State, and although his overall experience was positive, it was his first time in an environment with so many white students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The legislative branch has yet to detail a plan to supplement the school funding drying up from pandemic relief programs. Many schools, especially in under-resourced communities, are bracing to lose substantial supports like counselors. The executive branch is straining to keep its promises.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Black males will rise to high expectations held for them! Oftentimes, our biases and beliefs serve as barriers to helping Black males, especially when it comes to providing resources for them to achieve academically, optimize their mental health and wellness, and receive postsecondary preparation. Communicate. Now professionals must get ready too!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“By the time I got to high school, I was in honors and AP classes, where my African American and Hispanic friends were, for lack of a better way to put it, tracked into regular or remedial classes,” says Gavin in an interview with Diverse. “I And that’s carried me all the way to this presidency,” he adds. Do our policies align?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Jason, a research participant in a study examining success strategies for Black males thriving in STEM programs at community colleges, articulated a concern that AB 705 has established a barrier that “only well-prepared Black males can surmount.” Collaboration becomes a lifeline in leading the implementation of AB 705.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

To be honored and to receive the highest honor to a civilian of South Carolina is so humbling, said Moore in an interview with Diverse. Service to humanity is the hallmark of philosophy, and in many ways, it shaped who I am and what I'm about in my day to day. They built opportunities for people like me.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

“The Higher Education Act is well overdue for amendment,” said Dr. Kayla C. Elliott, director of workforce policy at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and one of the authors of the report. The last time it was amended was in 2008. … With that in mind, can we allow that to be an allowable activity going forward?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

According to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for returning students and the 2023 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) for first-year students, 66% of the student respondents to both surveys indicated they felt nervous, anxious, or on edge to the point where it was affecting their lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Sally Chen By mobilizing the model minority myth, which portrays Asian Americans as universally high-achieving students, SFFA created a cover for its anti-civil rights agenda. In reality, SFFA did not bring forward a single prospective or current undergraduate student from Harvard, as a plaintiff in its case, let alone an Asian American student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

He set the bar high for himself and he was culturally aware, which he credits to his parents who grew up in rural Mississippi and Georgia without the same opportunities toward their education. “I I had it all figured out,” says Robinson with a laugh. “I Those experiences solidified his commitment to justice and resistance. The rest is history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

“Why do we have to have this big discussion each time, when we understand this philosophically?” Leonard and Laura Kennedy, an admissions officer at MSU, were tasked with researching institutions with similar initiatives. “We I thought it was brilliant. I think this makes MSU much more accessible than ever before,” adds Leonard.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Shelly Miller, lead plaintiff, professor and chair of the Boulder Faculty Assembly. “In In the beginning, it took a lot of courage from many of us. Many of our colleagues were hesitant to go forward, but in the end, we found the courage and support from each other to do it.” The Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act was enacted on Jan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

A new report from United Educators reveals that enrollment concerns reclaimed the top spot as the most pressing risk facing colleges and universities in 2024, with 71% of institutions identifying it as a major challenge. This represents an increase from 67% in the previous year. out of 7 respectively.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Shola Lynch Spelman College has scored a major coup with the hiring of award-winning filmmaker Shola Lynch as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture. It is amazing that Spelman has a documentary film program — it is the only HBCU with one.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. When a couple of student affairs practitioners created the College and University Food Bank Alliance in 2012, it had just 10 members.

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