Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Women of Color Education Collaborative (WOCEC), a new nonprofit organization, has sprung up to address the lack of diversity among K-12 superintendents in the nation. Education Week has reported that only around 3% of American K-12 superintendents are women of color while 54% of students nationwide are diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2024

UNC Greensboro’s “Humanities at Work” internship program will enhance the undergraduate humanities experience, better prepare humanities students for life after graduation, and address the need for a workforce pipeline of well-prepared talent by building year-long, curriculum-integrated, and cohort-based internship placements for 650 students at 130 (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Believe in Students , a national nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, is providing faculty, staff and managers with actionable strategies to address college students’ basic needs. “How the new majority of students attends and experiences higher education is poorly understood by the American public and constantly given short shrift (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

In addition to the scholars program, Fidelity’s initiative – Invest in My Education (ME) – will also include retention and completion grants for students at risk of dropping out due to financial reasons, and grants to bolster nonprofit organizations aiming to improve graduation rates of underserved students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As state and local governments develop plans to utilize these federal funds, they are required to involve community stakeholders, which can include nonprofit organizations, civil rights groups, workforce development programs, state agencies and public housing authorities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Upon completion of his doctorate, Reid says he hopes to work in policy research and advocacy either with a nonprofit organization or in government. He will carry a sense of storytelling into policy work because he sees power and impact in these stories. The goal is to influence decision-makers and impact lives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

She serves as the executive director of the International Ultraviolet Association, a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Washington D.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Ivonne Diaz-Claisse “I told my story — what it took for me to achieve my dream — and at the end, the students wanted my autograph,” says Diaz-Claisse, president and CEO of Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement (HISPA), a nonprofit organization based in New Jersey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ED plans to deploy support from the office of Federal Student Aid and nonprofit organizations to lower-resourced colleges as part of its FAFSA College Support Strategy. These personnel will conduct needs-assessments and provide dedicated help to schools that are preparing for, and processing, student aid offer packages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Another goal for the future is to use some of her leadership development skills to help nonprofit organizations — “ultimately, down the line when I have a little bit more experience, doing more leadership coaching and coaching leaders through some of their issues that they’re facing,” she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Stout, chair of the Belk Center Advisory Board and president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to student success in community colleges. “In In 2018, I was watching and noticing that, while we were seeing gains in student success, it wasn’t at a steep, accelerated rate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 2, 2023

A formal list of colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations investing in and intentionally serving student parents is an important resource for many, said Lewis. The framework consists of four key factors surrounding student parents: the applicant’s data; policies; faculty, staff, and hiring practices; and campus culture.

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Higher Education Inquirer

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Must have volunteered for at least 50 hours at a Connecticut nonprofit organization that is registered with the Department of Consumer Protection, municipal government, served on the Board of Directors for a nonprofit organization or has military service after Jan. 1, 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

AccessLex Institute, a nonprofit organization that advocates access to legal education, released its biannual summary of demographic, financial, and academic data about U.S. Some measures of academic success also declined for law students of color in 2023. law students and applicants.

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University Business

MARCH 11, 2025

7, 2023, according to a new report from Heterodox Academy, a nonprofit organization focused on viewpoint diversity. The number of colleges and universities that have adopted institutional neutrality has dramatically increased since Hamas’ attack on Israel on Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 3, 2024

Lewis said that Generation Hope will cultivate leaders who can expand on the mission and dedicate themselves to the organization's Race Equity Blueprint, which acknowledges systemic racial inequity. The nonprofit organization plans to continue expanding its own workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2024

“It’s been an incredibly challenging and chaotic year in student loan space,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit organization working to eliminate student debt. It’s been incredibly hard for borrowers to get good, accurate information.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The goal can be achieved by mirroring the systems of support that increased the proportion of Native American lawyers in the U.S., which moved the needle significantly from the 1970s to today, increasing the number of Native attorneys from a few dozen to 2,500.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

That’s why Excelencia has issued four new reports in its continuing investigation into the relationship between institutions, Latinx students, and the workforce.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 19, 2023

Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a nonprofit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

a Black and Southeast Asian nonprofit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color. “I fell in love with Madison and my department and my academic community, so I have been here for the last 12 years,” says Lopez. Shortly after she arrived to Madison, Lopez got involved with Freedom, Inc.,

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

These are the latest numbers from 62% of institutions that report to the National Student Clearinghouse, an educational nonprofit organization which collects data and offers insights from 97% of all postsecondary institutions in the U.S. since last fall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

For Charlie Baker, there are a lot of things similar about being a governor and the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) — the nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics at about 1,100 schools across the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in student affairs. She has demonstrated tireless professional service in complex administrative roles while maintaining a robust research agenda.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Coleman says that the initiative began with a partnership with Braven, a national nonprofit organization that helps college students develop a path to economic mobility. All the tools that you can add to your tool belt help you in effecting that change.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board, a nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, has been accused of racism since its inception. In 1901, the Board was created in order to standardize college admissions across the United States.

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CAPD

JANUARY 29, 2025

While practicing your professional presentation and networking skills, you can get first-hand feedback and advice from individuals who have held key roles in leading corporations, contributed to cutting-edge innovations, and demonstrated a commitment to societal and community well-being through involvement in nonprofit organizations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

8 percentage points, as calculated by the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization that collects enrollment data for almost all U.S. NISS has raised graduation rates by an average of 4.5 percentage points — four times better than the national average of.8 postsecondary institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. Moore is the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor in materials science and engineering at the university’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Manhattan College has been classified as an emerging HSI for years, says Roy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Indigenous studies programs and cultural researchers from Australia, Taiwan, Canada, and other countries are reaching out to NTU to learn how the program was made, connected to both the cultural teaching methods of its native nation and the high-level academic research that can be used to support new policies or best practices.

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