A report recently released by the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center focuses on the level of equity for black students in each state and their four-year, non-specialized, public postsecondary institutions, using four equity indicators: representation, gender, completion, and black student-to-black faculty ratio.
Year: 2018
The ACE Fellowship Year: Putting Place in Perspective
In the upcoming months, John Marx will be blogging about his year in the ACE Fellows Program in a series of posts centered on the idea of “place” in American higher education leadership. Marx, professor and chair of the English Department at University of California, Davis, is spending his year working with President Elizabeth Hillman at Mills College in Oakland, California.
Ed Trust Report Provides Framework for Equitable Free College Programs
A new Education Trust report responds to the recent wave of state “free college” programs with an equity-minded critique of free-college programs’ designs.
Your Vote, Your Voice Provides Resources for College Students, Institutions
As the 2018 November midterm elections draw closer, college students and campuses can turn to Your Vote, Your Voice as a one-stop comprehensive resource for get-out-the-vote initiatives.
Faces of Dreamers: Daniela Gaona, Johns Hopkins University
Lack of funds nearly kept Daniela Gaona from achieving her dream of attending graduate school at Johns Hopkins University (MD) for a degree in mental health counseling, as dreamers are ineligible for federal financial aid or even state aid in some states. But emergency aid from her institution arrived just in time.
A Comparison of Education Worldwide: OECD’s Education at a Glance 2018 Report
The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has released its Education at a Glance 2018 report, which discusses educational indicators ranging from early childhood to doctoral education. In the realm of higher education, the report covers topics related to attainment, access, institutional expenditures, and workforce development, among others.
ACE at 100: Increasing Access Through the American College Application Campaign
In 2005, a North Carolina high school hosted an event called College Application Day, with the goal of having every senior complete and submit at least one college application. The program soon spread statewide, reaching underserved students and by 2011, ACE President Molly Corbett Broad advocated scaling the program nationwide.
Report Examines Outcomes of Hispanic-Serving Institution Graduates
The report, produced by Excelencia in Education in partnership with Strada Education Network and Gallup, analyzes interviews with 14,320 college graduates who received their degrees between 2000 and 2017 from 12 Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) participating in the Excelencia in Action (E-Action) network.
New Guide Helps Colleges Choose a Predictive Analytics Vendor
Especially for institutions that lack the resources to develop their own tools, partnering with vendors experienced in analytics is a common way to gain access to the tools and services necessary to optimize the use of data. However, there are a number of factors to consider when selecting a vendor, according to a recent report from New America.
New Report Looks at Undocumented Student Resource Centers Across the Country
With support from the UndocuScholars Project at University of California at Los Angeles, a new study examines undocumented student resource centers in the United States. The research brief discusses major findings, common resources offered by USRCs, and the implications these resource centers have on policy, staff, and institutions as a whole.
The Mental and Physical Well-Being of Incoming Freshmen: Three Decades of Research
In the latest post in our series on college student mental health and well-being, Ellen Bara Stolzenberg looks at how the health concerns of freshman college students have changed in recent decades.
Morgan State Preservation Project Encourages African Americans in Architecture
This summer, six students from Morgan State University, a historically black university in Maryland, participated in a hands-on historical preservation project called “Touching History: Preservation in Practice” as part of a pilot program to increase African American representation in architecture and related career paths.