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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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University of Rochester Black Studies Department to Accelerate Cluster-Hiring

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The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. We had to find outside funding that would facilitate the expedition of hiring,” he said. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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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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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

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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.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible. And in the past decade – up to fall 2022 – 97% of Latinx fellows (32 participants) earned their master’s degrees.

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Breaking Barriers in Finance: The Impact of TRIO on Student Support Services Alumna Ashley Thomas

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Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. In the upcoming and final blog post, we will explore how data might be employed in practice to facilitate institutional effectiveness. September 21, 2022.