Sara Weissman (EDU)

Sara Weissman is a staff writer at Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, covering public policy and faculty life. She formerly served as editor of New Voices Magazine and reported for Religion News Service, where her work was published in The Washington Post, The Huffington Post and USA Today, among other outlets. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in history from UC Berkeley and earned her master's degree at Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. You can follow her on Twitter @SaraWeissman.

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Scholars Wonder at the Trajectory of Expanding Social Justice Programs

George Floyd was killed by police a few miles from Dr. Valerie Chepp’s house. And as her students went out into the streets to protest this past summer, she completely redesigned her senior capstone course for the fall. Chepp is the social justice program director for Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and through the program, she felt like she had the opportunity to address the questions student activists were asking themselves while equipping them with applicable skills for their community organizing.

April 13, 2021

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Report: Outcomes-Based Funding Models Need to be Made More Equitable

More than 30 states have outcomes-based funding models, which allocate money to colleges and universities at least partly based on various metrics for student success. But a new report by The Education Trust – examining outcomes-based funding formulas across the country from 2017 to 2020 – argues that these models perpetuate inequities in the ways they’re currently designed.

April 2, 2021

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Mentees of Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Reflect on the Role of Mentorship in Diversity Work

Mentorship was the focus of Thursday’s panel discussion hosted by the Minority Achievement, Creativity and High Ability (MACH-III) Center at Prairie View A&M University, in partnership with the Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation.

April 1, 2021

Dr. Maxine Roberts Takes the Helm of Strong Start to Finish

Dr. Maxine Roberts started as the director of Strong Start to Finish this March. She’s ready to take a deep dive into why developmental education reforms aren’t working for all students.

March 29, 2021

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What Can Universities Do to Combat Anti-Asian Racism?

After a series of shootings at Asian spas killed eight people in Atlanta – six of them Asian women – the country is undergoing a reckoning with anti-Asian racism. Asian American faculty and staff say campuses have a role to play in this moment.

March 26, 2021

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American Council on Education Kicks Off Its 2021 Conference

On Monday, U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel Cardona kicked off the American Council on Education’s 2021 annual meeting.

March 22, 2021

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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Jaylon Uzodinma

Jaylon Uzodinma knew he wanted to design aircraft since he was eight years old. A kid “infatuated with speed,” he read a book in his third-grade class called How Things Work with a diagram of the inside of an airplane. That was the “first moment” he saw the career path lying ahead of him.

March 19, 2021

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Some Tribal Colleges Are Growing Amid the Pandemic

A handful of tribal colleges are growing during the pandemic. Eight schools had an uptick in first-time student enrollment.

March 18, 2021

Education Department Streamlines Borrower Defense

On Thursday, the U.S. Department of Education announced that it will offer full student loan debt relief to students defrauded by unscrupulous colleges under the borrower defense to repayment law. In doing so, the department is rejecting the current partial relief model, announced in December 2019, which assessed how much relief would go to borrowers […]

March 18, 2021

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Report: LGBTQ Students Struggle on Christian Campuses

A new study by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP) and the survey company College Pulse surveyed 3,000 full-time LGBTQ students at 134 four-year Christian colleges with discriminatory practices, most of which are members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU). It found that almost half of gender minority students and a third of sexual minority students feel they don’t belong at their college. Gender minority students are about five times more likely to experience bullying or harassment, while sexual minority students are twice as likely, compared to their peers.

March 16, 2021

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