In Minnesota, 11 tribes have called on the state university system to return some of the lands taken from tribes, provide tuition waivers to Native American students and increase the number of Native American faculty, among other demands.
Despite their drive to earn degrees, many face barriers in reaching their goals, say researchers at Ascend at the Aspen Institute and The Jed Foundation.
Society ultimately benefits when researchers can produce work that doesn’t align with the political whims of the people who govern institutions of higher education.
A recent national survey of how Americans feel about numerous aspects of higher education shows they want more institutional accountability, and - on measure after measure - they view private, for-profit colleges more negatively than institutions from the other higher education sectors.
The event aims to help institutional leaders 'become more intentional in serving all students and to improve both completion rates and the quality of student learning.'
Why colleges and universities should consider short-term study abroad experiences and move away from Eurocentric study abroad models, and look south instead.
"I think a lot of that has to do with the high profile that HBCUs are getting, and the attention that they are getting with everything going on in the world."
