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Bennett College to Receive $25,000 from Fashion Nova and Megan Thee Stallion

Bennett College – a historically Black liberal arts college for women – will receive $25,000 from Fashion Nova Cares, e-commerce fashion lifestyle brand Fashion Nova and Grammy-winning artist Megan Thee Stallion. Bennett’s $25,000 will go towards its Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. Throughout March, Fashion Nova Cares pledged to support and donate $1,000,000 to women entrepreneurs, […]

March 31, 2021

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Stakeholders Assess Whether International Student Enrollment Will Rise After Sharp Decline

An Institute of International Education (IIE) survey of 700 colleges and universities concluded that there was a 16% drop in all international student enrollment in fall 2020, compared to fall 2019, and a 43% drop in new international student enrollment. Several factors, including what some are calling the “Biden bump,” seemingly are converging to reverse parts of the decline in international student enrollment during the presidency of Donald Trump.

March 31, 2021

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Seattle Pacific University President Daniel J. Martin Resigns

Seattle Pacific University President Daniel J. Martin is resigning for a job at a health care foundation, effective April 5, Seattle Times reported. Martin has been president of the university for nine years, during which he’s helped the school triple its endowment. In an email statement to the university community, Martin said he has accepted […]

March 31, 2021

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Community Colleges

Community College Enrollment Is Down 10%. Here’s How Schools Hope to Help Students Return

Data from the National Student Clearinghouse shows that community college enrollment in fall 2020 was down 10.6% from fall 2019 for full-time students and 9.9% for part-time students. The biggest declines were among African American males at 19.2% and Native American males at 20.1%.

March 31, 2021

GRCC President Bill Pink

Making Equity Everyone’s Work

From effectively educating students online, to sponsoring research to help cure and prevent COVID, to confronting racism and anti-Blackness, to countering the effects of misinformation and conspiratorial thinking, colleges and universities must lead the way in finding solutions for the most pressing problems of our day.

March 31, 2021

Higher Ed Equity Veteran to Bring Experience to New Post at University of the Pacific

Dr. Mary J. Wardell-Ghirarduzzi is returning to her alma mater to serve as the inaugural vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) at University of the Pacific.

March 30, 2021

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Community Colleges

IWPR Report Highlights Challenges of Student-Parents

Using first-hand experiences, the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) released a new report to highlight the ongoing challenges faced by student-parents and provide recommendations for institutions to help address their needs.

March 30, 2021

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Survey: Harvard Faculty Lacks BIPOC Representation

Nearly 80% of surveyed Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) members said FAS does not have a healthy level of BIPOC representation. And 50% of respondents strongly disagreed that the faculty is sufficiently diverse, The Harvard Crimson reported. Only 7% of respondents agreed the FAS had healthy BIPOC representation. Other results include 65% of […]

March 30, 2021

Harvard University

Education Department Expands Student Loan Pause to Federal Family Education Loan Program

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will expand its pause on federal student loans to defaulted loans in the Federal Family Education Loan (FFEL) Program. This relief will be retroactively applied from March 13, 2020, the start of the pandemic. The FFEL program allows private lenders, insured by guaranty agencies, to […]

March 30, 2021

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Savannah State University to Provide Every HBCU Free Hand Sanitizer

Savannah State University (SSU) will give free hand sanitizer to every historically Black college and university (HBCU) nationwide, enough for their entire student populations, WSAV reported. The gift was made possible from a donation to the school made by alum Cyrus Jackson, who owns 1 Indigo Child, LLC, which produces Dr. Hobbs Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer […]

March 30, 2021

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Becker College Will Close After This School Year, Financial Challenges Worsened by Pandemic

Becker College will permanently close at the end of this academic year, with the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on the school’s finances cited as a cause, Boston.com reported. The Becker Board of Trustees voted Sunday to close the school. The school already faced challenges related to finances. Becker – a small, 1,500-student private college – will […]

March 30, 2021

Brown University Students Vote in Favor of Reparations

Brown University students have voted by a vast margin that the Ivy League school should offer reparations to descendants of enslaved people who were affiliated with the school and its founders, NBC News reported. The voting – on two referendum questions – took place last week during an annual election. One question was whether Brown […]

March 30, 2021

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Are Your Institution’s Diversity and Equity Efforts Cosmetic or Courageous?

The hardest and most needed changes will require courage. It will require some degree of risk. It will require upsetting the status quo. It will require fearless advocacy on behalf of students even if it means that it may cause some level of institutional discomfort. Unprecedented change requires unprecedented action at the time when windows of opportunity are made available.

March 30, 2021

Racelighting: Three Common Strategies Racelighters Use

Racelighting sits at the nexus of racial microaggressions and racial battle fatigue.

March 30, 2021

Dr. H. Richard Milner IV Voted President-Elect of AERA

Dr. H. Richard Milner IV has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), effective at the end of the 2022 annual meeting. Milner is the Cornelius Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Education in the department of teaching and learning at Vanderbilt University’s Peabody College of Education and Human Development. Milner’s work focuses on […]

March 29, 2021

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Grieving Together: A Student Death at Le Moyne College Sparks a Conversation About Mental Health

The death of a Le Moyne College student this week has ignited a campus-wide conversation about mental health and prompted changes in how administrators are approaching the social and emotional difficulties of pandemic life. On Sunday, Cory Gallinger, 20, was found dead in his dorm room, college officials announced in an email to students that day. […]

March 29, 2021

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Tougaloo College Serves as COVID-19 Vaccination Site for Students, Employees

Tougaloo College will host COVID-19 vaccination events in partnership with the Mississippi State Department of Health. The events began March 10 and will continue throughout April. Read More

March 29, 2021

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COVID’s Impact on College Athletes’ Mental Health and Performance

Student athletes are used to having routines and game schedules. But that regimen was taken away as of March 2020, as lockdowns and restrictions were put in place throughout the country to combat COVID-19. Some college athletes and experts shared with ABC News the toll they said the pandemic has taken on student athletes’ mental […]

March 29, 2021

COVID’s impact on college athletes’ mental health and performance