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University of Alabama at Birmingham Awarded $4.6 Million Grant Renewal to Bolster Cybersecurity Workforce Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs. Dr. Yuliang Zheng The Scholarship for Service grant renewal – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – seeks to help fill the growing need for a national cybersecurity workforce prepared to deal with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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Financial Aid Displacement: What Families and Scholarship Providers Should Know

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Updated January 2023 Students and their families are often surprised to realize some colleges reduce their financial aid packages when the student earns private scholarship dollars—a practice called financial aid displacement or award displacement. They take unique approaches to scholarship aid that reduce the chance of displacement.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a researcher and tenured associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education, Means’ scholarship “examines racial and class inequities in rural contexts, challenging monolithic perspectives that equate rurality to whiteness,” wrote Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., It’s all a team effort,” Means said.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has been at or near capacity since 2017. In the summer, certain EHS buildings have a Pell Grant rate for individuals who are Pell Grant eligible. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships. The building is in proximity to classes and campus resources. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Granting that sort of leeway to aspiring and professional scientists from underrepresented groups has only increased during the five decades that SACNAS has been operating and growing. “How How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? from Duke University in 2017. “I

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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for students who entered in 2017. There is an umbrella organization for the minority organizations at Virginia Tech, CAMEO (Council for the Advancement of Minority Engineering Organizations), which provides funding and scholarships and organizes the CAMEO CareerFest each spring. That rose to 61.2%

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Things have changed—has your Annual Giving strategy?

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My parents couldn’t afford to pay for any of my college education, so I worked to pay for it on my own using a combination of scholarships, grants, and a work-study. Just as I began to accept not returning to school, I was saved by a scholarship. All of a sudden, my path forward was slipping out of reach.