Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

So much of my career I did my scholarship in the field of election law,” said Alexander, the Arthur J. And in 2006, he served as general counsel for Cory Booker’s Newark mayoral election. He said it was one of the reasons he went to law school. To Alexander, the legal profession is ultimately about serving communities and justice. “So

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

WSU’s CAMP was founded in 2006. Its most significant program is META (master’s early transition and access), a summer bridge program for students entering graduate programs at CSUF, which includes mentoring, networking, scholarships and professional development. This recognition] means a lot.” There is a designated recruiter.

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NACAC's Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The data below highlight disparities in institutional merit (academic and other non-need-based scholarships) and need-based grant awards. [1] Most institutions provide need-based scholarships as well, but these also vary widely in structure and generosity. However, the reality is these institutional grants are not fairly distributed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

He had received a scholarship in the spring semester that covered the cost of any debts he had incurred that year, and he had the receipts to prove it. A 2006 National College Health Assessment found that just under 50% of the over 94,000 students surveyed reported feeling “so depressed it was difficult to function,” and 9.3%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation has launched a scholarship program in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to provide educational advancement opportunities to descendants of Jesuit and Catholic slaveholding in the United States.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Stepping into a scholarship void In graduate school, realizing there were virtually no books on Asian American theater history, she began interviewing Asian American theater artists around the U.S. For her first book, A History of Asian American Theatre (2006), she interviewed over 70 people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

This choice is informed by critical scholarship and activism, such as that by Dumas (2016) who writes that Black is a “self-determined name of a racialized social group that shares a specific set of histories, cultural processes, and imagined and performed kinships” (p. The Culturally Competent Educator: Dispositions, Knowledge, and Skills.

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