Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As part of the award, the six leaders are allowed to direct a $200,000 grant to a nonprofit of their choice, which can then take part in the bank’s one-year Neighborhood Builders Leadership Program. The prayers and dreams of my ancestors give me the strength to work for that transformation for our students today and for future generations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2024

Department of Energy and the State of Michigan have announced a collective award of cash incentives and grants totaling $75 million to build workforce development for Nel Hydrogen’s new factory to be built in Plymouth, Michigan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

architecture, Columbia University Career mentors: Dr. Mabel Wilson, Columbia University; Danielle Smoller, Columbia University; Dr. Hazel Edwards, Howard University; Bradford Grant, Howard University; and Rashida Ng, University of Pennsylvania Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Your work matters. from 2015 to 2017.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Parnell has been with the organization since 2015 and will bring deep industry and organizational knowledge to her new role. Over the past eight years, Parnell secured over $22 million in grant funding, represented NASPA through service to over 20 organizations including the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Yet a 2024 report by Community College Research Center, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, and National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that only about a third of 2015 community college entrants transferred and fewer than half of those who transferred earned a degree in six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.” GSU’s student support team created a system of automatic micro-grants, which would be auto distributed to students in need. Tim Renick “Today, we’re over 80% nonwhite,” says Renick.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

But with the revival of a way for those in prison to better access higher education, per the Second Chance Pell pilot program in 2015 , ITHAKA saw the potential to do more. The expansion was mostly supported through grant funding from the Mellon Foundation and the Ascendium Education Group, Burnett said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Georgetown had previously appeared on the list four times since 2015 for a variety of conflicts including its refusal to let students table on behalf of Bernie Sanders on campus, its denial of recognition to a pro-choice student group, and its censorship of a debate on its Qatar campus about the depiction of God as a woman.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. Edward’s University, a private university in Austin, Texas, enrolls 2,766 undergraduate students, 51% of whom are Latino and 40% are Pell Grant recipients. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino. Edward’s University St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act. But much of the book highlights how the American higher education system has become the envy of the world — sending thousands of students each year flocking to the United States to commence study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

When Dr. Adele Newson-Horst was developing a grant proposal, she quoted a 2015 article published in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education that noted HBCU institutions had been slow to introduce gender-related programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

She also received a 2015 Outstanding Dissertation Award from the American Educational Research Association. Currently, she is leading a three-year project supported by a $1 million grant from the U.S. Dr. Renae D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. In 2015, the U.S. This trend reversed sharply with the passage of the 1994 Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act, which banned people in prisons from Pell access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Since the 2015 launch of Graduation Initiative 2025, a state-backed project to improve graduation rates, the California State University system (CSU) has made significant progress, with students from all groups earning degrees at higher rates. But disparities persist. The graduation rate gap between Black and white students is 22.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

Department of Education indicated, most HEERF grant performance periods were scheduled to end on June 30, 2023. population will be 355 million in 2040, which is 25 million fewer than projected in 2015. As the U.S. The number of Americans 65 and older is projected to more than double by 2040. Furthermore, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Since 2015, 64 students, 93.75% of whom are Latino, have been placed in internships. “I There are also several transfers from community colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

MSU’s designation as a land-grant institution resonated with Jackson, who had spent much of his academic career working and studying at land-grant institutions. It reminded me of that feel, touch, and access that land-grant schools provide and that it’s a pride point for Michigan State.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Today, there are only 2,000 native speakers , but a 2015 Hawaii State Data Center census reported that 5.7% It wasnt until years later that I realized Kumu was training us for activism in a world actively erasing our culture and language.In

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Last year, we reported that students of color were more likely than White students to face a gap between their total college costs and the financial assistance available to them from grants and family resources, also known as unmet need. i In 2015-16, just 30% of students were immigrants or children of immigrants.

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EAB

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Beginning July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible , enabling qualified students to pursue federally funded college education for the first time since the 1990s. Once funding is restored, a staggering 700,000 incarcerated adults will become eligible for Pell Grants in the 2023-2024 academic year.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion Grants. Completion Grants. Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid. In spring 2021, the UIA concluded its four-year completion grant initiative after providing more than 5,000 microgrants (valued at $3.6 Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds. College to Career.

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Clair Kamp Dush

MAY 31, 2019

How competitive is it to get an NIH grant? The number of submissions to the National Institutes of Health has grown continually over the past 20+ years; in 2018, NIH received more than 55,000 grant applications, of which about 20% were funded, though the success rate varies by NIH institute. Who is actually receiving grants?

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EAB

JUNE 1, 2023

Blogs 3 considerations for prison education programs What you need to know ahead of July’s restoration of Second Chance Pell grants Given the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students expected in July 2023 , many institutions are beginning to develop plans for Prison Education Programs (PEPs).

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EAB

JANUARY 26, 2023

Pell Grant availability for incarcerated adults Starting in July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell eligible. 9% increase in six-year completion rates from the fall 2015 cohort to fall 2016. This could be a trend that continues in other states. Community colleges have seen a.9%

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JUNE 1, 2023

A Hypothetical Example of How Excluding Default Will Affect Borrowers: Kelly’s story 2000: Kelly finishes an associates’ degree program in Child Development, for which she borrowed $20,000 and also used a Pell Grant. 2005-2015: Her loans are in default for 10 years. From 2006-2015 she gets a job as a teacher’s aid.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

We are grateful for a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to support this work. Inspired by the BSSI, we are also developing a playbook focused on identity-conscious redesign that will equip any institution to drive change for the benefit of a unique student community.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

We are grateful for a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to support this work. Below is a cross-section of campus project examples: [image] Inspired by the BSSI, we are also developing a playbook focused on identity-conscious redesign that will equip any institution to drive change for the benefit of a unique student community.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

JUNE 3, 2022

On June 1, 2022, the Department of Education announced that it would cancel all of the federal student loans former Corinthian College students borrowed to attend those schools (Heald College, Everest Institute/College, and WyoTech) from Corinthian’s founding in 1995 through its closure in 2015.

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NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Corinthian : Students who attended a Corinthian-owned school between 1995 through its closure in 2015. . When do borrowers need to have attended the schools to receive automatic relief? . ITT : Students who attended in 2005 through its closure in 2016. Marinello : Students who attended between 2009 through its closure in 2016.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

However, the only reason the term student-athlete ever came to be was because the NCAA did not want to grant the widow of Ray Dennison, an army vet/father of three/college football player who died in 1955 in competition , workers compensation.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JANUARY 19, 2024

An established scholar with grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Mellon Foundation, the Newberry Library, the Huntington Library, and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, she has published two monographs, six edited books, and 35 chapters and articles.

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Clair Kamp Dush

AUGUST 26, 2019

Thus, I thought I would marry the two problems – write grants to collect data to answer research questions I am currently unable to answer with available population data. I decided I could write a grant to for a new study focused on family functioning in the US that would include both same and different-gender couples.

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Student Loan Hero

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The big news on the student loan forgiveness front is that the federal government plans to forgive up to $10,000 in federally held student debt, or up to $20,000 if you previously received a Pell Grant. ( See more below ). Here’s an overview of what’s out there, plus other ways to find help for repayment beyond forgiveness. Laurel Road.

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College Planners of America

AUGUST 29, 2024

In addition, borrowers who had also received Pell Grants qualified for another $10,000 in forgiveness. This doctrine holds that the Court should strike down agency actions that raise “major questions” if Congress did not clearly and unambiguously grant appropriate authority. The plan also ties monthly payments to family size.

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College Planners of America

AUGUST 29, 2024

In addition, borrowers who had also received Pell Grants qualified for another $10,000 in forgiveness. This doctrine holds that the Court should strike down agency actions that raise “major questions” if Congress did not clearly and unambiguously grant appropriate authority. The plan also ties monthly payments to family size.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 25, 2022

to produce the highest percentage of college graduates by the year 2020, Duncan helped secure increases in the Pell grant program to boost the number of young Americans attending college and receiving postsecondary degrees. Secretary of Education. In support of the president's goal for the U.S.

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