underserved students Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/underserved-students/ A Blog by ACE Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:54:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://www.higheredtoday.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/apple-touch-icon-150x150.png underserved students Archives - Higher Education Today https://www.higheredtoday.org/topic/underserved-students/ 32 32 Reimagining Higher Education: A New Campus in Colorado, Open to Everyone https://www.higheredtoday.org/2023/07/06/reimagining-higher-education-a-new-campus-in-colorado-open-to-everyone/ Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:24:15 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17975 The fact that Colorado is among the top states in the country in the percentage of adults who have completed at least a bachelor’s degree is a great bragging point for educators and boosters of our communities. But it’s also misleading. The truth is that our state and its economy benefit from the considerable number of people who come here for ...

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]]> Redefining Prestige https://www.higheredtoday.org/2022/11/21/redefining-prestige/ Mon, 21 Nov 2022 14:39:49 +0000 https://higher-ed-today.local/?p=17878 Education Secretary Miguel Cardona has laid out plans to hold higher education more accountable for student success. We owe it to our students—and ourselves—to embrace his vision. Nearly six in 10 students who attend the University of La Verne identify as Hispanic, half of our undergraduates are low-income students, and more than 40 percent are the first in their families to ...

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]]> Examining HR Hiring Practices for LGBTQ+ Professionals at Community Colleges https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/05/03/examining-hr-hiring-practices-lgbtq-professionals-community-colleges/ Mon, 03 May 2021 17:34:20 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17491 By Ángel de Jesus Gonzalez Over the past several decades, the college student population has diversified greatly across all sectors of postsecondary education. According to ACE’s Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: A Status Report, students of color made up 45.2 percent of the undergraduate student population in 2016, a substantial increase from 29.6 percent in 1996. However, higher education leadership ...

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]]> Congress Lifted the Pell Grant Ban for Incarcerated People. What Now? https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/04/22/congress-lifted-pell-grant-ban-incarcerated-people-now/ Thu, 22 Apr 2021 15:06:49 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17468 By Ruth Delaney and Allan Wachendorfer In December 2020, Congress lifted a 26-year ban on Pell Grants for people in prison. The change means that incarcerated people, who are disproportionately Black and brown, can now benefit from the monumental expansion of access to the transformative experience of education. Postsecondary education in prison is shown to have a positive impact on incarcerated ...

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]]> Refocusing on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion During the Pandemic and Beyond: Lessons from a Community of Practice https://www.higheredtoday.org/2021/01/13/refocusing-diversity-equity-inclusion-pandemic-beyond-lessons-community-practice/ Wed, 13 Jan 2021 20:48:14 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17334 By Taffye Benson Clayton For several years now, researchers and policymakers have been forecasting the shift in racial and ethnic demographics that is currently underway throughout the United States. These demographic changes have largely informed our understanding of diversity and inclusion as our universities prepared for the influx of a more diverse student body. Diversity brings with it a number of ...

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]]> Higher Education’s Challenge: Disability Inclusion on Campus https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/10/19/higher-educations-challenge-disability-inclusion-campus/ Mon, 19 Oct 2020 20:18:56 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=17154 By Dahlia Shaewitz and Jennifer R. Crandall This post is part of the series Beyond the Margins: Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students. Disability is inherently diverse—it is a category that includes people from every gender, race, culture, sexual orientation, geographic region, age group, and socioeconomic level. It’s also a group to which all of us can belong at any time. In ...

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]]> Centering Equity in Student Mental Health Task Forces: Lessons Learned From the University of Michigan https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/09/21/centering-equity-student-mental-health-task-forces-lessons-learned-university-michigans-task-force/ Mon, 21 Sep 2020 16:47:41 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16981 By Sara R. Abelson, Janelle R. Goodwill, and Meghan A. Duffy This piece was commissioned by The Steve Fund, which works nationally to support the mental health and emotional well-being for students of color. College students are struggling more with their mental health than ever before: the percentage of students who reported being diagnosed with a mental health condition increased by ...

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]]> Love Can Save Higher Education From Itself https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/09/11/love-can-save-higher-education/ Fri, 11 Sep 2020 18:55:15 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16908 By Russell Lowery-Hart. Dr. Lowery-Hart is president of Amarillo College, one of two recipients of the 2020 ACE/Fidelity Investments Award for Institutional Transformation. The award was created to recognize institutions that have responded to higher education challenges. The Amarillo College reformation is an inspiring tale of courage, pain, uncertainty, risk-taking, and even fear. Yet, the foundation of our reformation is based ...

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]]> Meeting Student Success Goals During a Crisis https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/08/24/meeting-student-success-goals-crisis/ Mon, 24 Aug 2020 19:47:21 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16885 A conversation on student success with Rebecca Karoff and Susan Cates. Originally posted on the Association of College and University Educators’ The “Q” blog. Higher education faced an abrupt shift to emergency remote instruction just months ago. This, coupled with other changing dynamics in a volatile world, left many institutions and faculty scrambling. Rebecca Karoff, associate vice chancellor for academic affairs ...

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]]> Lessons Learned from Rural Community Colleges’ Response to COVID-19 https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/06/22/lessons-learned-rural-community-colleges-response-covid-19/ Mon, 22 Jun 2020 16:07:57 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16769 By Suzanne Wilson Summers Suzanne Wilson Summers is writing about her year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts on how community colleges can build internal cultures that support student success. Read her first post here. Rural community colleges represent over 3.4 million students spread across 800 campuses nationwide and serve as “centers of educational opportunity,” according to ...

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]]> Indigenous Perspectives on Native Student Challenges in Higher Education https://www.higheredtoday.org/2020/01/28/indigenous-perspectives-native-student-challenges-higher-education/ Tue, 28 Jan 2020 21:20:31 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=16256 By Robin Zape-tah-hol-ah Minthorn This post is part of the series Beyond the Margins: Meeting the Needs of Underserved Students. While the number of Native American students on college campuses has increased over the last 50 years, this broad trend—while good news—presents a fragmented understanding of these students’ participation in and access to higher education. What we know is that, in 2016 ...

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]]> KSU Center Provides Resources for Homeless, Food Insecure, and Foster Care Students https://www.higheredtoday.org/2019/02/04/ksu-center-provides-resources-homeless-food-insecure-foster-care-students/ Mon, 04 Feb 2019 14:17:56 +0000 https://higheredtoday.wpengine.com/?p=14340 Problems affording housing and food as well as lack of family support can be disruptive to a college student’s education. That is why Kennesaw State University (KSU) in Georgia created the Campus Awareness, Resource & Empowerment (CARE) Services Center to offer support for students dealing with issues like homelessness, food insecurity, and experience in the foster care system. In 2006, a ...

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