Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2023

In an attempt to break this cycle, the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) is releasing a new report investigating employers’ understanding—or lack thereof— of equity in recruitment and offering ideas for how companies and Black colleges and universities can create mutually beneficial ties.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Both recruiting and retaining Native students showed up in the report as an area of improvement for MSU. “We “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

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Roompact

MARCH 17, 2025

When it’s RA/student staff recruitment season, it’s time to bring on the creativity!The The following schools volunteered their recruitment materials (posters, flyers, social media images, etc.) Check out these examples and get ideas for your own efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Alvin Poussaint For more than five decades, Poussaint served as a beacon of change at Harvard Medical School (HMS), where he worked as faculty associate dean for student affairs and founding director of the HMS Office of Recruitment & Multicultural Affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

EAB has announced an upgrade to its flagship technology, Navigate , to help colleges recruit and retain students. Information applicants share during recruitment will become part of their Navigate student profiles during matriculation, which will in turn will help staff identify students for additional assistance and support. “Our

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Mathis The presentation was designed to illuminate promising practices identified in Smalls study that leaders are implementing to develop and recruit a diverse board of trustees and foster the desired climate, policy development, and culture within their respective institutions. Dr. Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

This interdisciplinary group brings together faculty, researchers, staff, and students to develop innovative solutions for improving recruitment, engagement, and retention. Michael Sinclair, associate professor of Social Work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Teacher advancement and career pathways are among the list of ways to recruit, retain, and support teachers. According to Boren, these teacher leadership roles are a win-win situation for everyone while helping to retain and grow talent. Retention of teachers is increasing. It comes down to that one word of support,” Boren said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The exclusion of Florida State University’s football team from the College Football Playoff serves as a stark reminder of the challenges facing high school recruits, particularly quarterbacks, hoping to join top-tier college football programs. It applies to various fields, including sports, arts, and entrepreneurship.

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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

JULY 17, 2023

The University of Tennessee football program is being reprimanded for recruiting violations and direct cash payments to athletes , reported reported. approval for six years. However, per the imposed sanctions, the school can still compete for a conference or national championship. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

In 2020, NJIT created the Hispanic and Latinx Leadership Council, which is made up of students, faculty, staff and alumni as well as business and community leaders who work collaboratively to address recruitment, retention, engagement and persistence among Latinx students. Lim, hosted a campus celebration of the school’s HSI designation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Colleagues praised my energy, students gravitated to my classes, and I was recruited for every diversity committee imaginable. As a woman of color, a first-generation college graduate, and someone raised in a limited-income home, I was celebrated for bringing fresh perspectives and ideas. But over time, the shine dulled.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

said Gasman, who added that e ach year the program actively recruits new applicants to participate in a cohort model where they take part in workshops and networking events designed to assist MSI faculty in their careers. Dr. Cheron H. They believe in their students and the students know this and it’s empowering."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

University of San Diego "Restorative justice is a much-needed approach to harm and conflict in our highly divided society," said Dr. David Karp, director of the USD Center for Restorative Justice and co-principal investigator of the National Center on Restorative Justice. “It The first cohort will start next fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

We are very intentional in how we recruit, retai Dr. Jose Fierro n and support completion to our diverse student body,” says Dr. Jose Fierro, president. “We Six years ago, the university transitioned from a quarter to a semester system, significantly streamlining the path to degree completion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A plan for mainstream colleges and universities has been laid out for intentional engagement in recruitment and retention. This fall, Minnesota launched North Star Promise with a promise about free tuition. But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

One innovation, he says, is the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) as a programmatic recruitment tool. 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. They know the program.

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Great College Advice

OCTOBER 10, 2023

This is due to the fact that recruited athletes tend to appear in the Early Decision applicant pool. This is due to the fact that recruited athletes tend to appear in the Early Decision applicant pool. and specifically (are you a fencing recruit?). How can this be? What does easier mean? And for whom.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

This research is particularly timely given the expected expansion of school choice programs and the ongoing push to recruit more Black teachers. When he was accepted and assigned Ladson-Billings as his mentor, it proved to be a match made in heaven.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

As a result, some HBCUs have been forced to rely on a limited staff which is compounded by using obsolete and less efficient practices in key areas like recruitment and enrollment, student success, and fundraising. Unfortunately, HBCUs have not been immune to the hiring and retention challenges impacting higher education recently.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 28, 2025

Rector: Recruiting U.S. Scholars Can Protect Threatened Research sara.custer@in Fri, 03/28/2025 - 03:00 AM Universities should offer opportunities to U.S. talent because it can prevent fruitful lines of enquiry from being abruptly cut off, says head of leading European institution. Byline(s) Emily Dixon for Times Higher Education

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Recruitment is about more than getting students to say yes. The student experience is the glue that holds retention, trust and academic success together, and when admissions and recruitment strategies work hand-in-hand with academics, the result is a thriving, engaged student community. Canisius University in Buffalo, N.Y.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2024

It will greatly enhance our ability to provide scholarships for students and also give us a boost in recruiting top students, and recruiting and retaining top faculty.” This gift is breathtaking in its generosity and its scope. It changes the narrative about what is possible for FAMU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Harvey The recruiting season for the next batch of potential recruits is in full swing, and coaches will be making visits to the homes of identified prospects, hoping to convince them that their institution is the best fit for these potential gridiron stars. Dr. William B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. Research suggests that we send cues affecting underrepresented students’ aspirations, application, and enrollment decisions through three channels: public policies, admissions requirements, and recruitment and advising interactions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 20, 2024

Its stated goal was to enhance diversity and inclusivity through the recruitment and retention of an increasingly diverse population of faculty, administrators, staff and students. Eli Capulouto The University of Kentucky is disbanding its Office of Institutional Diversity. Bennett, who is African American. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The statement rejects the claim that DEI criteria infringes on academic freedom by imposing political or ideological litmus tests concerning diversity and points out that decisions about the scope, design, and application of DEI criteria for faculty evaluation must rest primarily with the faculty as part of shared governance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Hawkins Centers of Excellence Program, this groundbreaking initiative, led by PI (Project Investigator) Dr. Julius Davis aims to recruit, prepare, and support Black male educators to enter and thrive in the teaching profession. With Black males making up only about 2% of all educators nationwide, this issue is more than a diversity problem.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

The partnership between Sacred Heart University’s Farrington College of Education & Human Development and Stamford Public Schools will be laser-focused on identifying and recruiting local talent to ensure that classrooms are led by teachers who better represent the families and the children they serve. We are not stopping with Stamford.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Schools recruit students from diverse backgrounds but fail to recognize and learn from the histories that come with such backgrounds, Elbert said. "We We are recruiting students from inner cities and bringing them to our campuses without acknowledging the trauma that they are experiencing before they come to our campuses,” Elbert said.

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The Guardian Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

University of Chichester had suspended recruitment to its history of Africa and the African diaspora MRes An independent adjudicator has ruled partly in favour of students who challenged the University of Chichester after their African history course was abruptly terminated in 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The UT System has allocated $55 million across the ERUs to fund the recruitment of research-active faculty to increase its national research prominence and federal funding opportunities. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

This is why we really can’t be doing enough to recruit underrepresented groups to medicine, and why the recent Supreme Court decision really sets us back, while we are already behind.” These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. physicians are Black, and 6.9% are Latinx.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

According to IRT associate director and panel moderator Catherine Wong, IRT’s free graduate preparation program provides those accepted with multiple kinds of assistance, including advising, application fee waivers, access to grad school recruiters, and workshops. Marcus Penny In a Jan. Being a teacher is not easy work, Penny said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2023

As an unsettling synth beat plays, a quote from a recent study fades in: “Many institutions have recruited underrepresented scholars to join their faculty without attention to retaining and supporting the new recruits.” White text on a black background tells us that African Americans make up only 5.4% Dr. Candace N. Others have cried.

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