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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. The program is funded through a grant provided to the Dr. Melvin C. The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Florida International University (FIU) has received $6 million to help improve access to mental health services for students in Miami-Dade County Public Schools (M-DCPS). The five-year grant came through the U.S. Department of Education (ED) via the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act and the Fiscal Year 2022 Omnibus Appropriations.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

million grant from the U.S. Jee Hang Lee For this FY 2022 Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Employment & Training (E&T) National Partnership Grant , Seattle Jobs Initiative (SJI) and American Public Human Services Association (APHSA) will assist as partners. “In Jee Hang Lee.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The California community colleges focus on equitable access by calling for all ninth-graders to take at least a one-credit college course in which they explore potential careers and develop a preliminary college education plan that includes a minimum of 12 college credits during high school. Accessible from [link] Hoang, H.,

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. in 2022-23.

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Fielding Graduate University Taylor was a national leader on issues of diversity and inclusion in higher education, particularly those relating to access and equity, preparing the next generation of researchers and faculty members in the nation’s colleges and universities.

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MAY 20, 2024

It examines over 200 indicators to determine who accesses a variety of educational environments and experiences, to explore how student trajectories and outcomes differ by race and ethnicity, and to provide an overview of the racial and ethnic backgrounds of faculty, staff, and college presidents.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

More than half a million incarcerated people can now access scholarly materials and texts online via digital library JSTOR’s expansion of its availability in U.S. She is also the one leading the JSTOR Access in Prison Initiative. Then, COVID happened, technology became more accessible to people inside.”

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JUNE 5, 2024

So, when Beitiks learned in 2022 that the Andrew W. 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.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

By March 2022, two years after the pandemic began its catastrophic spread across the United States, over 588,000 cases of Covid spread through the U.S. Now, thanks to a National Institutes of Health grant, JustLeadershipUSA and Yale University Department of Internal Medicine specialists are coming together to build trust in vaccinations.

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APRIL 30, 2024

The results reveal that, even if students were not able to access a voucher or find housing, connection to the CHAP program improved their ability to get a job, their health, and their well-being. in January 2022, roughly 582,000 people experienced homelessness. Instances of involvement with the criminal justice system diminished.

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JUNE 3, 2024

The prison education program as a whole has had more than 400 students since 2022, composing a mix of both incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people and Marquette undergrads, though the program’s origins stretch back to 2015, Wheelock said. It is in service of the foundation’s goal to expand access to liberal arts education, she said.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. At Compton, we put all budgets on the table – every small categorical program, every department, every grant – to pay for what works and will reach the largest number of students.

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JANUARY 9, 2024

New Mexico’s Opportunity Scholarship is a first-dollar program, in which state grants are applied before other types of aid, like Pell Grants, which can be used to cover living costs and other non-tuition expenses. Students may attend either a two-year or four-year New Mexican public institution.

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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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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

WVC, an associate’s and bachelor’s degree granting institution, has two dual enrollment programs: Running Start, which brings students to WVC, and College in the High School, held on high school campuses. higher education institutions, fall 2022 dual enrollment at two-year colleges grew by 11.5%.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Still others, influenced by dangerous myths, are reluctant to attend an open-access institution like a community college. The institutions are open-access, affordable, and conveniently located. The launch was assisted by a planning grant from the Kresge Foundation. Dr. George R. attend them.

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MARCH 4, 2024

At the University of Houston (UH), an HSI serving the fourth largest city in the nation, 33% of total fall 2022 enrollment identified as Latinx. One third of their students are Pell Grant eligible and receive stipends from his office to help fund their educational journey. How HSIs Promote Upward Mobility.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The list serves as a highlight reel of 2022’s campus free speech controversies, starting with Hamline University, where an art professor sparked a dispute by showing a 14 th century painting of the prophet Muhammad, which some Muslims believe is offensive. Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts were at the center of another entry.

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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. As of Fall 2022, Latino students comprise 50.64% of all full-time undergraduates and 49.68% of all part-time undergraduates.

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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% In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC. This eventually led to applying for and receiving a grant to develop programming for LGBTQ+ students at Guttman.

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APRIL 18, 2023

For example, if a university’s admissions process privileges credentials, like Calculus, that applicants of color do not have equal access to in the K-12 system, the process may disadvantage applicants of color and the university may wish to examine whether it is fully compliant with federal and state anti-discrimination laws.”

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Thu, 11/03/2022 - 06:00. Completion Grants. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students. Graduation.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Lee explains how some of her students live in rural areas “not having access to hospitals nearby … not even just having running water. A master’s program was launched in 2018, and in spring 2022, the state legislature approved a Ph.D. There is a whole history of disparity there, health disparities even prior to the pandemic.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

When Achieving the Dream (ATD) launched an innovative regional Professional Learning Community (PLC) project to strengthen career pathways for communities, the college eagerly applied and was awarded a grant to participate. Department of Education. Other takeaways include braiding or blending funds to create sustainable pathways.

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MARCH 13, 2023

The beauty of bell’s work was that it was so accessible, it was not contained in the academy,” said Malaklou. I know how quickly that can shift back, and I don’t think you can take it for granted. She didn’t see herself as a pedagogue on high, she was in conversation with pop culture and events. We have to work to maintain that.”

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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. 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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OCTOBER 15, 2024

It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino. As you work with people closely, you know that you’re making a difference,” says Michael Heim, director of CAMP and of WSU’s Migrant Education Student Access & Support.

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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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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Intel announced in 2022 they would build two chip factories just outside of Columbus. A $1 million grant from the Delta Regional Authority, a federal-state partnership improving the quality of life in the Mississippi Delta, has allowed LSUE to go back to its agrarian roots. Success rates have grown from 40 to 60% on average.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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JUNE 5, 2023

UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels. The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says.

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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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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“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.”

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

AUGUST 22, 2023

ED’s latest Postsecondary Student Success Grant Program application includes performance measures recommended by IHEP research By Jessica Vivar Earning a college degree is the best path to turning career aspirations into a successful livelihood and financially secure, fulfilling life. The result?

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