Scholarship America

MARCH 7, 2023

If you’re a student pursuing a future career in the skilled trades, manufacturing or engineering, this is the scholarship month for you! And if those don’t fit the bill, you can find all of our open scholarships right here. Best of luck! Applications are open through April 18. GPA or better on a 4.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

His performances at this level garnered attention, ultimately leading to a scholarship offer from Washington State University, a member of the PAC-12, which was then one of the prestigious Power 5 conferences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” The program has three areas of interest.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

“I had an opportunity to be around greatness and to aspire for greatness,” says Prescod, the first Black woman to win an individual medal at the Senior World Championships as well as a team gold medal at the 2018 World Championships. “It Since its inception, ACP has helped participants receive over $10 million in college scholarship funds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Although she has reached such heights in her scholarship, she began her college journey with little information or direction about academia, in part because she lacked counseling in high school. “I As an example, she authored a 2018 article on the experiences of a gifted Black male with a traumatic brain injury.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. We have excellent outcomes on that; we have great support from our legislature that provides a dual credit scholarship that removes financial barriers,” says Ellis. “We Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Title: Chief Operating Officer, College Football Playoff Williams joined the College Football Playoff in July 2018 as its chief operating officer, after having spent the previous two years as commissioner of the Big Sky Conference. Williams is a graduate of Texas A&M, where she competed in volleyball and basketball.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Lee says one of the department’s solutions for adapting to the pandemic was to provide technology scholarships that enable students to purchase tech items with which to do their research and assignments at home. A master’s program was launched in 2018, and in spring 2022, the state legislature approved a Ph.D. program.

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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. In spring 2018, Ross was able to take his skills as a public speaker and make his way onto the Texas Southern University (TSU) debate team. Ross was confused.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. Coupled with enhanced academic flexibility it has led to improved graduation rates. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Waller joined Virginia Tech in 2018 as director of Graduate Student Programs. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

In 2018, according to 2021 version of that bi-annual analysis, 16.8% How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? of all scientists and engineers employed full-time and16.7% of those employed part-time were from those same minority groups. “How

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Scholarship America

JULY 14, 2023

At Scholarship America, our mission is to eliminate barriers to higher education, and to ensure those with the most need have the opportunity to thrive through equitable pathways to education and training. Private-sector scholarships can make a huge difference when it comes to filling the affordability gap for low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Howard says he’s blown away when he meets K-12 schoolteachers who have followed his career and who praise his scholarship. He earned tenured three years later, became a full professor in 2011, and was named the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair of Education in 2018. But I say, ‘you’re on the frontlines,’” he says. He ran and was elected.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million. Since then, the number of scholarships has significantly increased, which has brought increased diversity. “In Outreach for undergraduate students is largely focused within the state of Illinois. The College of Business is named for Larry Gies, founder and CEO of Madison Industries.

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#RealCollege Blog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In 2018, we teamed up with Amarillo College in Texas, a two-year college with one of the best basic needs hubs in the country, to see if we could boost the number of students visiting the school’s Advocacy and Resource Center (ARC) while spending almost no money. If your college doesn’t have a centralized basic needs hub, it should.

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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 There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Applications, admissions, financial aid and scholarships all have their own deadlines – and they happen while you’re also trying to balance your regular schoolwork, your job, your family and your social life. If you don’t fill it out, you might be leaving money on the table – like more than 661,000 students did in 2018. The good news?

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College Planners of America

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In 2018, he bestowed $1.8 Table B , below, lists private gifts to colleges of $50 million or more in 2018 and $60 million or more in 2019, 2020, and 2021. Table B Largest Private Gifts to Colleges 2018-21) Y ear Institution Donor Gift Purpose 2018 Johns Hopkins Michael R. 2018 MIT Stephen A. 2018 Yale Edward P.

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COE

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Gabrielle also participated in the 2012 Southwest Association of Student Assistance Programs (SWASAP) Student Leadership Conference as a part of TRIO, where she earned a scholarship. Every opportunity Upward Bound provided, including passing out graduation programs on a Saturday, she was there.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Last month, we featured a post titled, “Tuition Discounts Offered as Merit Aid” about the common practice of colleges to provide partial merit scholarships, or discounted tuition. The CDS enables them to identify the colleges that are most inclined to discount their full price of tuition by offering partial merit scholarships.

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EAB

JANUARY 31, 2023

Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate. Create an action plan with measurables and a timeline (short, medium, long-term) Report successes Keep going; we want to be the premiere FCS program and we are in it for the long haul We are looking forward to a bright future! Resources Boyer, E. Jossey-Bass. Gavazzi, S.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

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.

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The Advisor That Cares

OCTOBER 30, 2022

Answers/scores can launch informative videos, initiate a referral to support services (Careers, ARC, advising, financial aid/scholarships), targeted outreach, and follow up from stakeholders to explain options and impacts and/or advising/coaching campaign links. CSLE2COVA, 2018). 2018, August 8). Innovation = Care. References.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

These shows have allowed the UIA to reach and inspire leaders and practitioners beyond member campuses.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

These shows have allowed the UIA to reach and inspire leaders and practitioners beyond member campuses.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

But we tend to get lost on the why because it is personal and squishy—there’s no empirical evidence you can cite, no scholarship to drive your formulation. Morrison and her parents, Pat and Sandy Koerner, after her hooding ceremony at Montana State University in 2018. His earliest TED Talk inspired me to start thinking about my why.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

In 2018 at the age of 17, Lopez learned that she was pregnant. “I She applied, received a scholarship, and “was introduced to a community of young moms like me.” Malajah Lopez, a young mother of two, delivered a powerful speech at the opening plenary of the conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

From March 2013 to 2018, he served as president of The Andrew W. She is the author of numerous books including Racism in American Public Life: A Call to Action Lewis is a professor of History and Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan and director of the Center for Social Solutions. Mellon Foundation.

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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

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Support networks and guidance may also decrease isolation while providing information about resources, such as financial scholarships and internship or employment opportunities, often kept from students of color. For college students, the most likely SDOH were food insecurity, transportation, safety, social support, and housing (Nazmi et al.,

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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. Lee joined the faculty at Duke University in 2018 and is pleased to report that Duke recently established a minor in Asian American Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

The American Indian College Fund is the nation’s largest charity supporting Native higher education and has distributed more than $259 million in scholarships and grants for programs and services since it was founded in 1989. HACU has been instrumental in addressing some of those issues, particularly through its scholarship programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Mwantuali says that when he asked a white colleague to nominate him, she demanded to see a signed book contract as proof of his scholarship. One of the starkest differences, Mwantuali alleges, came when he tried to advance to full professorship, a process that requires a nomination. When he showed her two, she still would not support him.

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