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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Responding to a problem To help address these issues, the National Science Foundation has created the ADVANCE Adaptation track grants, which offer schools millions of dollars to implement tested programs to increase the representation of women in academic science and engineering careers. These are not programs that work right away.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. But per the ED grant, that will soon change with the hiring of a new visiting assistant professor. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Exploring the History of Latinos in Baseball

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burgos arrived at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2001, where he earned tenure as an associate professor in 2007 and rose to full professor in 2012. Burgos has written two books, Playing America’s Game: Baseball, Latinos, and the Color Line, which examines the U.S.’s

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. But per the ED grant, that will soon change with the hiring of a new visiting assistant professor. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 Census.

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Unequal Distribution

NACAC's Admitted

Financial aid discussions have centered on simplifying FAFSA and increasing federal Pell Grants – all important – but federal student aid policies are only one funding source for families trying to determine how to pay for college. However, the reality is these institutional grants are not fairly distributed.

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Life and Learning, the Washington Way

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Washington’s expertise is sought after and granted across religious, government, corporate, and educational settings. Dr. Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I

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Petitioning for the Right to Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was in 2001 that California AB540 allowed undocumented students to pay in-state tuition, which was a huge win. Doe, held that states cannot constitutionally refuse students a free public education based on their immigration status. That did not extend through to the colleges,” says Najera.