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Updated ACE Report Reveals Progress, Persistent Disparities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This report is timely for everyone involved in higher education — administrators, researchers, policymakers. For example, the report found that the number of Hispanic or Latino students earning bachelor’s degrees rose about 10%, from 2002 to 2022, but the rates for white and Asian students grew even faster.

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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She says the goal of her research is to help Black students to “freedom dream,” a term inspired by Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination , a 2002 book by Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S. History at UCLA. He said wherever you are, you need to be the best,” Mims recalls.

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In Memoriam

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

from Howard University; in 1989, she won a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. She also introduced the Juvenile Accountability Block Grant Reauthorization and Bullying Prevention and Intervention Act, the Federal Prison Bureau Nonviolent Offender Relief Act. Sybil Haydel Morial In September, Sybil Haydel Morial died at age 91.

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Student Loan Repayment Freeze Extended; Borrowers Get Up to $20,000 in Forgiveness

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Specifically, those who received a Pell grant during college can qualify to have up to $20,000 of their current federal student loan balance canceled. Those who didn’t receive a Pell grant may be eligible for up to $10,000 in forgiveness. 22: Another extension keeps the relief measures in place through May 1, 2002. 31, 2022. ●