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This is three straight years of transfer growth for both Black and Hispanic students and transfer enrollment for both groups have been above 2020 levels since 2022. While Bergen is a strong transfer institution, Hlavenka said the college has expanded its focus on workforce, training and continuing education grants. overall and 8.9%

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FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Between 2022 and 2023 alone, 92 colleges abandoned legacy preferences, representing an 18% decrease that coincided with the Supreme Court's landmark decision to ban race-conscious admissions. The practice has seen particularly steep drops since 2015, when nearly half of all four-year colleges considered legacy status.

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MAY 15, 2024

Mark Becker plans to leave his role as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) at the end of the year. “I I carry the ethos of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in my veins, and I believe with the firmest of convictions that APLU and our members are vitally important to the future of our nation.”

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JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S.

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In 2022, Diverse named Shotton to its annual list of women making a difference in higher education. "I The college offers tuition waivers to qualified Native American students, a policy that dates back to a 1911 federal land grant agreement.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Land-grant universities (LGUs) that are historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are significantly underfunded compared to predominantly white LGUs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP). This match often comes from state appropriations.

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JANUARY 4, 2023

Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. Dr. Roderick L.

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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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JANUARY 17, 2025

2022-2025, received funding of $541,879 from the National Science Foundation over three years. on a proposal preparing math and science teachers for middle school, resulting in a five-year NSF grant of $1,199,762. The research project, IceCube Data Analysis in the U.S. Loves Ph.D. Love also collaborated as co-P.I.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Morgan State University, a Historically Black university in Baltimore, has been awarded the 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education: From Admission through Completion from The Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) and ETS.

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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.

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JUNE 28, 2023

On July 1 st , incarcerated Americans will re-gain access to Pell grants for the first time in nearly 30 years. These students are therefore not eligible for Pell grants, making it exceedingly difficult for them to access higher education. The report argues that the solution to the problem is simple: cancel student debt.

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2022 college scholarship scams. They also may claim you have won a scholarship or a grant (without ever applying) and ask for payment of a one-time “processing fee.”. In another version, the scammer pressures you into applying for a “guaranteed” scholarship or grant. However, the majority of the time, it is bait for a scam. .

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considered legacy status during the 2021-2022 academic year. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 2.1 Forty-two percent of full-time, first-time undergraduates at these institutions receive Pell Grants, a federal need-based aid program, compared with just 36 percent at selective four-year institutions that do consider legacy in admissions.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Ron DeSantis The 2022 state law – the “Individual Freedom Act” (“IFA”) – bans professors at Florida’s public universities from expressing certain viewpoints while teaching topics such as racial and sexual discrimination and injustice. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Florida Gov.

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JANUARY 16, 2024

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. Everyone at PWNA is sincerely grateful for this recent funding from Synchrony.

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MARCH 12, 2024

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). GAO surveyed a representative sample of HSIs in the U.S.,

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NJIT’s efforts grew Hispanic undergrad population from 20% to 25% in the fall of 2022, which enabled the university to reach the eligibility threshold for the HSI status that the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education recently confirmed in a letter.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Credit toward a college credential for prior learning Dr. Sonya Christian Another strategy that colleges are using is to assess and grant credit for prior life experiences. A 2022 evaluation of the California program by the UC Davis Wheelhouse reported several significant benefits. Hoang, H., & Rios-Aguilar, C., Johnstone, R.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

Dr. Phillip Brian Harper In Spring 2022, the foundation had invited proposals from institutions – accredited, non-profit, four-year liberal arts degree-granting U.S. Mellon Foundation pledged more than $12 million to 26 U.S. colleges and universities working on social justice-related research or curricular projects.

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MAY 16, 2023

The money was appropriated by Congress in fiscal year 2022 through NPS' Historic Preservation Fund for use in the fund's HBCU grant program. “I These funds are part of NPS’s total award of $9.7 million for 14 projects in 10 states. I am pleased to see another round of essential funding coming to South Carolina’s HBCUs,” said Rep.

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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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OCTOBER 31, 2022

Median rents for a one bedroom in Tribeca, where BMCC is located, soared from their low of $3,079 in November 2020 to $5,500 in 2022. A 2022 survey of over 80,000 community college students across the country found that 14% experienced housing insecurity. BMCC is a commuter school and has no dormitories of its own.

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MAY 20, 2024

For example, the report found that the number of Hispanic or Latino students earning bachelor’s degrees rose about 10%, from 2002 to 2022, but the rates for white and Asian students grew even faster. The leaders called for the doubling of Pell Grants to help make higher education more affordable and accessible. "We

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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. million award marks Mellon’s second contribution to the program.

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Ellucian Banner Users: On December 29, 2022, the President signed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, which included a $500 increase to the maximum Pell Grant. The maximum Pell Grant award for the 2023-2024 award year is $7,395, and the corresponding maximum Pell Grant eligible expected family contribution (EFC) is 6656.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

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. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr., chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

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. 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).

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OCTOBER 17, 2024

Prior to joining the USC Rossier faculty in 2022, DeCuir-Gunby was a professor and head of the Teacher Education and Learning Sciences Department at North Carolina State University. More than $4 million in National Science Foundation grants have funded her work. Her research has been cited in more than 9,000 published studies.

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APRIL 8, 2024

A 2022 national report from the Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCCSE) notes that community college students often deal with housing insecurity, which was exacerbated by the pandemic — 14% of study respondents were classified as housing insecure. They need supports to meet them where they’re at.”

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JANUARY 18, 2024

Taylor served as vice president for strategic initiatives and research at Fielding, where he was also the principal investigator and director for an NSF-funded grant to advance women and people of color in the STEM fields into leadership positions at the nation’s Historically Black Colleges and Universities and at Tribal Colleges.

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JULY 3, 2023

She is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Psychological Association and has been a board member for organizations such as the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) and the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable.

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JANUARY 22, 2024

architecture, Columbia University Career mentors: Dr. Mabel Wilson, Columbia University; Danielle Smoller, Columbia University; Dr. Hazel Edwards, Howard University; Bradford Grant, Howard University; and Rashida Ng, University of Pennsylvania Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Your work matters.

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MAY 26, 2023

Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. Dr. Justin Jernigan, dean of student success at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), said the plan to pursue HSI status, announced in 2022, was intentional. She notes it helps build community.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

She has been supported in her studies and research by numerous grants and fellowships including a 2022 grant from the Office of the Provost Research Development Academy at UT-Knoxville; she was a 2023 Faculty Fellow with the Association of American Hispanics in Higher Education, Inc.;

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MAY 23, 2023

After large pandemic-related declines the past several years, community college enrollment grew this spring by 0.5%, or 22,000 students, compared to spring 2022. Graduate enrollments were another area that suffered, dropping 2.2% (68,000 students) from spring 2022, a stark reversal after a surprising increase during the pandemic.

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