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Students

Webinar Highlights Ways to Improve Student Success Post-Pandemic

At Wednesday’s webinar, student success experts and directors came together to discuss new ways to helps students who had suffered learning loss in the past year.

Native Americans

California Native American Commission Investigates CSU's Treatment of Sacred Land

African-American

Shaw University, Local Deeds Office Hope To Uncover Human Stories Lost to Slavery

Leadership & Policy

New York Higher Education Experts Are Hopeful that New Governor Kathy Hochul will Continue the State’s Efforts on Making Colleges More Affordable

Higher Education experts are excited to see how New York's incoming governor will transform the higher education scene.

Community Colleges

Community College Students, Persistence, and the Minimum Wage

Across America, students at community colleges are dropping out of institutions due to financial stressors.

Demographics

Congress Consider Significant Investments in HBCUs

The Institutional Grants for New Infrastructure, Technology and Education (IGNITE) for HBCU Excellence Act aims to address long-standing infrastructure issues at the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities.

Students

How This College Used Data to Keep Students in School

Georgia Gwinnett College gathered and studied data on student behavior during the pandemic to help its undergraduates stay in school.

Leadership & Policy

An Open Letter to Trustees of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)

Although I have lost count of the number of HBCU presidential vacancies and recent appointments, suffice it to say I believe the number of vacancies is far too high in proportion to the number of HBCUs as a percent of the total number of colleges and universities. The situation is so dire that some presidents are not in office long enough to be officially inaugurated. This is unacceptable, and alumni and other institutional constituents become part of the problem when they refuse to speak out in a constructive manner.

African-American

Howard University to Build New Research Center Specializing in Chronic Illness

Howard University has selected three real-estate companies as their project development team to construct a new research laboratory and office building. The National Research Center for Health Disparities will specialize in finding solutions to chronic illness, particularly illnesses that primarily impact communities of color. The building will go up at the corner of Georgia Avenue […]

Native Americans

Montana State University Receives $2.2M Grant to Recruit and Retain Alaska Native and American Indian Nurses

The United States Health Resources and Services Administration gifted a $2.2 million grant to Montana State University (MSU) to recruit and retain more Alaska Native and American Indian nurses. Using the four-year Nursing Workforce Diversity grant, 15 American Indian and Alaska Native nursing students enrolled in MSU College of Nursing’s Caring for Our Own Program […]

African-American

Study Examines Digital Divide Impact on Black Families Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

A new study out of the University of Missouri found a lack of digital resources exacerbated Black families’ frustration with virtual learning early on in the pandemic, the onset of which hit right as Black families were already facing additional stress over the deaths of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, and others.

Students

Two More Georgia HBCUs Clear Pandemic Related Student Debt

Morehouse College and Savannah State University have become the latest historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) to clear student debt acquired since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020. The funding comes directly from the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund, a federal government pledge of $35 billion to help financially struggling college students […]

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