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San Diego Foundation Commits $4M to Help Underserved Students Reach College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two major donations bolster the initiative: an anonymous $1 million gift and a $500,000 matching gift from the Barbara Monroe Scholarship Fund. Since 2017, its Community Scholars Initiative has provided over $1.9 million in scholarships to 710 first-generation college students from underrepresented communities.

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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

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. million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Undergraduates are most concerned with scholarship opportunities, financial literacy, and paying for their education,” survey conductors reported about the financial needs of Latino students. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S.

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Meet Shai Reshef, the 2023 Yidan Prize Winner

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2017, a partnership was forged between the University of the People and the University of Edinburgh. The following year, in 2020, the International Baccalaureate began providing 80 scholarships for qualifying M.Ed. The inaugural class of this program commenced in 2019.

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Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom Starts with Culture First, Then Asks Questions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fundamentally, I want my scholarship to matter to people's lives and to do that, it's really helpful if I don't lose sight of how people are living.” However, her strategy is simple ; she starts with culture. Culture is this place where we try to make sense of a really complex world in our own little local context,” says McMillan Cottom.

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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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Andrea Williams

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams has been recognized with honors that include the 2017 Shadow League Leadership Award, 2014 SportsBusiness Journal Class of Game Changers (Women in Sports Business) and 2014 CEFMA Event Manager of the Year.