Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

As the coordinator of Montclair States Master of Arts program in Higher Education, she has been instrumental in guiding its development, leading it from its origins as a concentration to its establishment as a stand-alone program in 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 19, 2024

The facility closed in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic and associated budget reduction efforts. The college was awarded a $1 million grant in 2023 from the U.S. “CAC is proud of our longstanding relationship with HCC and the opportunity to partner in providing expanded whole-family support for HCC’s students and our community.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2023

Significant portions of the college student population have faced food insecurity, according to an analysis of data from the National Postsecondary Student Aid Study: 2020 (NPSAS:20). Dr. Tammeil Y. Panelist Dr. Tammeil Gilkerson, president of Evergreen Valley College, said that NPSAS:20 allows for better, more focused support. "To

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2024

They also had technology needs, such as, to improve student internet access, cybersecurity, and hybrid learning efforts. GAO analyzed the most recent HSI data on college student and institutional characteristics (2021–2022), finances (2020–2021), HSI grant programs (2017–2022), and COVID-19 pandemic relief funds (2021).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep. Even at private nonprofit doctorate-granting universities, the most gated in the nation, 18% of students experience food insecurity. Basic needs insecurity affects even the highest achievers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The grant – from Lilly Endowment Inc. With our national reputation for outstanding classroom teaching and value, we’re ideally positioned to provide access to a rewarding college education for students from all backgrounds and interests.” Students who complete the program will earn college credits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Mellon Foundation was accepting grant proposals for disability studies projects, she eagerly submitted one for a fellowship program designed to cultivate the work of disabled scholar-activists. Their web-based project, Neurodivergent-U , is an accessibility ranking of 89 U.S. The dorms on the SFSU campus weren’t fully accessible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Back in December of 2020, the foundation awarded the then-budding EPP a $745,000 24-month grant that allowed the team to build up and grow. Since 2015, the Mellon Foundation has awarded more than $73 million in grants to prison higher ed programs, according to Dr. Carolyn Dinshaw, senior program officer for higher learning at Mellon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

PCC’s Community Excellence Grants program allows faculty, staff, and students to propose ideas in service of the school, its diverse campus, and its nearby communities. According to the college, the internal grant awards total approximately $1 million a year. PCC is a place where we have a lot of creative thinking,” Boekelheide says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Even though UAGM - Gurabo enrollment dropped from 17,167 in 2016 to 13,553 in 2020, Méndez Méndez and other leaders made conscious decisions that would keep the cost of tuition level. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. But per the ED grant, that will soon change with the hiring of a new visiting assistant professor. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 4, 2023

Now, new data from the 2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study has provided the first nationally representative picture: more than one in five undergraduates experience food insecurity. Indeed, 21% of students whose full financial need was considered to be met by grants were food insecure. didn’t have enough food access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

Howard had previously received a grant from the Department of Defense in 2020 of $7.5 HBCUs contain huge talent that today is not accessible to us,” she said. It's work that Howard is well-positioned to take on, with 15 doctoral students and two master’s-level students researching autonomous systems and machine learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

On the other hand, Tennessee Tech earned a spot for cancelling the campus events of the Lambda Gay-Straight Alliance in response to a video of its drag show, and Texas A&M was featured for dropping its sponsorship of an annual drag show and preventing students from accessing the previous year’s profits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I Means says he sees promise and potential in the high school students who need access and opportunity.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

At Wayne State, she founded efforts such as: Leading Well, a grant-funded professional learning community for Black women school leaders in Detroit; the Center for Black Children in Education (CBCE), which hosts an annual conference; and the Sankofa Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships for young people in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Lodriguez Murray There were the murders of George Floyd and Breona Taylor in 2020, the racial and social unrest that followed, and tragedies that befell so many others—but we still are inspired by their memories. That is precisely the moment historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) find themselves in today.

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NACAC's Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Financial aid discussions have centered on simplifying FAFSA and increasing federal Pell Grants – all important – but federal student aid policies are only one funding source for families trying to determine how to pay for college. However, the reality is these institutional grants are not fairly distributed.

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College Aid Services

JANUARY 25, 2024

Congress passed the FAFSA Simplification Act in 2020 to overhaul the application process for federal aid and expand students’ access to grant funding with a new analysis formula.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Between July 2020 and July 2021, 1.4 The data-driven discussions amongst our team equipped us with a strong message that has resulted in the passing of SB 175 [providing] adults with some college, no degree with access to grant dollars that can lighten the financial burden of completing their postsecondary journey.” ii 5.

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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. However, prison reform and the drive to expand access to education programs in prisons have been gaining momentum.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion Grants. Between 2016 and 2020, the UIA conducted a randomized control trial study of proactive, predictive analytics-enabled advising for first-generation and Pell-eligible students across 11 campuses. MAAPS demonstrated the value of an accessible, coordinated approach to advising. Completion Grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. But per the ED grant, that will soon change with the hiring of a new visiting assistant professor. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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#RealCollege Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

By: Traci Kirtley (she/her), Believe in Students In February 2020, the novel coronavirus began making its way into the US, creating one of the most dramatic and widespread emergencies of my lifetime. How We Responded Within days, we launched efforts to meet this need.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Between July 2020 and July 2021, 1.4 SB 175, first introduced in 2023 , will provide grant awards (a maximum of $3,000 for universities and $1,500 for community colleges per academic semester) to for full-time adult learners to support their reenrollment and completion of their credentials. ii 5.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

When her classes all went online during the COVID-19 pandemic, she was desperate for help because she could no longer access the computer lab on campus. Federal Pell grants for poor students used to cover 100% of tuition and living expenses at two-year colleges; now the grants barely cover 60%. How do students make up that 40%?

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Some states, like Washington, California, and Illinois, have implemented policies that require public colleges to assist students with access to basic needs. Pell Grant availability for incarcerated adults Starting in July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell eligible. rate in 2020.

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College Planners of America

DECEMBER 20, 2023

To improve the financial aid process, the FAFSA Simplification Act was enacted by Congress on December 27, 2020. Specifically, the FAFSA will not account for the impact of inflation since 2020. Given the high rate of inflation since 2020, the income exclusion amounts for 2024-25 should have been adjusted upwards by 18%.

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MAY 9, 2023

These educational institutions and technical colleges offer affordable and accessible education, which is often tailored to meet the needs of the local job market. Community college leaders must navigate a complex landscape to fulfill their mission of providing accessible and quality education.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

EAB experts Caylie Privitere and Matthew McAloon examine the benefits to students and institutions from the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated persons who want to pursue a college education. Our guest today discuss the restoration of Pell Grant funding for incarcerated students. Transcript [music] 0:00:11.6 Do we know?

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

The Black Student Success Initiative Building on landscape assessment and groundwork begun in 2020, this year campuses participating in the UIA's Black Student Success Initiative (BSSI) began piloting new interventions designed to improve the outcomes and experiences of Black students. We'd love to include you in our community.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Her 2020 book, “ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent ,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Wilkerson wrote The New York Times bestselling book, “ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ,” which was published in 2010. Both texts were the subject of her keynote speech.

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College Planners of America

MAY 13, 2023

The 2024-25 FAFSA represents the final implementation of the rules stipulated in the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020 , some of which have already been released in the 2122-23 and 2023-24 FAFSA’s. The 2024-25 FAFSA form will not be launched until December 2023, two months later than the traditional date.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Black Student Success Initiative Building on landscape assessment and groundwork begun in 2020, this year campuses participating in the UIA's Black Student Success Initiative (BSSI) began piloting new interventions designed to improve the outcomes and experiences of Black students. We'd love to include you in our community.

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NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

NACAC’s role in facilitating conversation about equitable admission practices in the current admission context is to ensure careful examination of admission policies and practices, particularly as it applies to improving equity outcomes for college access. How were test-optional policies implemented?

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