The Biden-Harris Administration approved more than $6.1 billion in automatic student loan relief to borrowers who enrolled at any Art Institute campus between Jan. 1, 2004, and Oct. 16, 2017. “For more than a decade, hundreds of thousands of hopeful students borrowed billions to attend The Art Institutes and got little but lies in return,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A. Cardona. Cardona said the U.S. Department of Education (ED) worked with the attorneys general offices of Iowa, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania to redress wrongs for the nearly 317,000 Art Institute borrowers and ..read more

Organizers with the Freedom to Learn (F2L) network and the Right to Learn (R2L) coalition are planning a rally May 3 in Washington, D.C. The annual Freedom to Learn DC Rally convenes at the Library of Congress, and participants will march to the U. S. Supreme Court to hear from a slate of speakers — students, educators, parents, artists, and leaders civil and human rights organizations like National Urban League President Marc Morial and Kimberlé Crenshaw, cofounder and executive director of African American Policy Forum and a law professor at UCLA and Columbia University.  Leaders w ..read more

On Jan. 15, Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, the Centennial Conference announced its creation of a three-year strategic diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plan, uniting the conference’s 11 private, Division III institutions in a shared mission to make their athletics programs a place where all students, particularly those in marginalized populations, feel they belong. Dr. Ajhanai KeatonCentennial’s Executive Director Portia Hoeg says the creation of their plan came with a clear outcome in mind: “no matter who you are, you are welcome here.” “We think it’s crucially important for the growth an ..read more

Latine learners now make up nearly one-in-five college students between the ages of 18 and 24. With the share of Latine students doubling over the past two decades, the number of Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) has also risen. Established in 1992, this federal designation is granted to institutions with an enrollment that consists of at least 25% Hispanic students. There are currently nearly 600 HSIs across the country. There are also about 400 emerging HSIs — institutions where Hispanic students account for 15% to 24.9% of enrollment. While hundreds of institutions are now HSIs or emergi ..read more

To Kevin White, Clemson University’s first Black deputy athletic director (AD), it’s about serving students. It’s about paying forward the good grace he received throughout his own career. It’s what drives him to keep working, he says. If he can offer advice and guidance to younger folks in his field, he’s here for it. Kevin White“I make myself available to folks. If they want time with me, then I want to make time for them,” White tells Diverse. “Because a lot of people picked up my phone call. A lot of people wrote me back when I wrote them letters and answered my emails. And so, I want to m ..read more

Dr. Kenro KusumiKenro Kusumi has been named university senior vice provost and dean of The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University. He serves as a professor of life sciences and dean of natural sciences. Kusumi holds a bachelor’s degree in biochemical sciences Harvard University and a Ph.D. in biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ..read more

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). The longitudinal study followed 422 housing insecure students, who were given the opportunity to apply for a housing voucher to lower the cost of a private housing unit. The results reveal that, even if students were not able to access a voucher or find housing, connection to the CHAP p ..read more

U.S. colleges and universities currently face proliferating pro-Palestine student protests on their campuses, resulting in encampments and hundreds of arrests nationwide.Dr. Omar WasowBerkeley Center for Race and Gender during the 1960s. It’s a tactic that’s become more prominent following the 59-day Occupy Wall Street protests against economic inequality and corporate greed in Fall 2011, said Dr. Omar Wasow, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of California (UC) Berkeley. “I think what we're seeing here is a kind of combination of past protest techniqu ..read more

Dr. Tabitha MillerTabitha Miller has been named president of Martin Community College in Williamston, North Carolina. She served as the vice president and chief academic officer at the college. Miller holds a bachelor’s degree in education from The Ohio State University as well as a master’s and Ph.D. in English from East Carolina University ..read more

Yohannis A. JobYohannis A. Job has been named vice president of enrollment management at Benedict College. He served as vice president and dean of enrollment management at Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, Texas. Job holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration -marketing from the University of Arkansas, and a juris doctorate from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock ..read more