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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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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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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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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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AUGUST 20, 2024

Eli Capulouto The University of Kentucky is disbanding its Office of Institutional Diversity. Meanwhile, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln announced on the same day that it would also dissolve its Office of Diversity & Inclusion. Bennett, who is African American. "We We will reimagine how we approach this work at UNL.

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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 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

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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APRIL 3, 2024

Additionally, some are located in states where governors or legislators have banned or severely restricted diversity, equity , and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. He makes it plain what is already happening in a way that you just can’t ignore it.” While it has improved somewhat, more than 40 years later, the change has not been dramatic.

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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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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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APRIL 22, 2024

My family is deeply Jewish, with both Sephardic and Ashkenazic roots, and taught me the core lessons of tikkun olam (repair the world), tzedakah (create justice), g’milut chasadim (engage in loving kindness), pikuach nefesh (life matters), and ometz lev (courage). It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

“We are increasingly concerned that this trend will have a chilling effect across more campuses if these laws spread to other states.” Florida’s Senate Bill 266 took effect on July 1, 2023, prohibiting specified educational institutions from expending funds for certain purposes. Now, we’re seeing it being targeted through multiple avenues.”

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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

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

MARCH 15, 2024

According to the report, the unemployment rate for English majors, 2.3%, was not far off from that of all college graduates, 2.17%. However, this gap may have more to do with overall wage gaps between the genders – especially for women of color and women with disabilities – as opposed to specifically English majors, the report noted. “It

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

One Black British academic felt “discriminated against for promotion” while white colleagues with fewer high-profile publications or research grants were promoted instead. Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

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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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JULY 24, 2024

The latest attack on efforts to support diversity comes in the form of a lawsuit targeting Northwestern University’s law school. The suit accuses the school’s faculty and administration of snubbing high-profile white male applicants. The 30-page complaint gets so many facts wrong that it is difficult to know where to begin. IRS employees are human.

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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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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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Recently, BMCC received a $1M pledge award from Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) to expand its study abroad and study away programs, which aim to develop students who are culturally aware, socially engaged, and ready to excel in a competitive job market and an increasingly interdependent society.

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Great College Advice

DECEMBER 2, 2024

The actual act of applying for financial aid should have absolutely no bearing on whether a student gains admission to just about any college. If you’re a good candidate, they put you in the “accept” pile. So, you should feel free to check that box and send in your forms! Would your admission odds decline by applying for financial aid?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The poets and painters, they are our light in a dangerous and depressed world. For real. If it weren’t for the James Baldwins and Louise Erdriches ; or the stories of sadness or narratives love triumphing over oppression, all of the pain, all the sadness--all of it--would overwhelm. We know truth is worth pursuit even if it is inaccessible.

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MAY 5, 2024

Gregory Gerami University officials at the historically Black university noted that the donation is nearly double the size of the FAMU Endowment value - $121 million - and represents one of the largest single personal donations to a Historically Black College and University (HBCU). This gift is breathtaking in its generosity and its scope.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

Ivory Toldson While some proposals within the document, such as increased support for career and technical education, might resonate with a broad audience, the relentless "war on woke" framing serves to divide rather than unite, ultimately hindering progress toward a more equitable, inclusive and innovative higher education system.

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MAY 15, 2024

Supreme Court unanimously ruled in May 1954 that separate educational facilities between Black students and white students was “inherently unequal," dismissing the concept of “separate but equal” in public education, the nation began the task of desegregating its schools. But the process was painful and slow. I don't think Brown v.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Their departures raise new questions about the stress associated with being a college president, particularly at a smaller and under-resourced institution. Dr. Rochelle Ford Earlier this month, Dr. Rochelle Ford announced that she had stepped down as president of Dillard in New Orleans. It was a job that she held for just two years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Leonardo Seoane, executive vice president and chief academic officer of Ochsner Health, and first appointed dean of XOCOM. On Monday, XOCOM officials announced that the new college will be headquartered in New Orleans's burgeoning BioDistrict in downtown. If they can do it, I can do it, too. This can be me.” Drew University of Medicine and Science.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The mix of baseless attacks on her leadership, integrity, and qualifications, combined with labeling her as an affirmative action hire signaled the beginning of the end. Dr. Lori Patton Davis Gay’s resignation was utterly unsurprising and was absolutely necessary. It was a life-saving measure. It is a loss.

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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

AUGUST 13, 2024

Valerie Kinloch “I would sit Valerie down and tell her, ‘If you want to be a president, get to working on and learning what that means. You might be the change that we need in the world,” says Kinloch. Whether she could visualize it or not, that young freshman at Johnson C. And that’s how it started for me.” However, timing was important.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

But they will hear from college staff and peers that it’s best to live as close to campus as possible, there are only a couple of landlords renting to students, and even though those rents are high that’s just “how it is.” The lucky ones will get help, while others will be evicted, joining the 8% of undergraduates who experience homelessness.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2024

The financial aid timeline for high school seniors is critical if you want to maximize the amount of financial aid for which you are eligible. Financial aid is one of the most important parts of the college process, but it can be one of the most confusing as well. Verify Deadlines Check your deadlines. You need to make sure to stay on top of these.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Iowa native Juana D. Hollingsworth had always dreamed of attending an historically Black college and university (HBCU). She saw what it could be like through movies and television and she wanted that experience. I did not have that opportunity to go to a Black college for my undergrad because the closest one is in, like, St. Louis, six hours away.

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