Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

As an assistant professor of educational leadership and policy studies (ELPS) and coordinator of the college student personnel program at University of Tennessee, Knoxville, she is working to achieve that goal with her scholarship and her administrative responsibilities. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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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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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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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% In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC. Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year.

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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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JULY 3, 2023

Wayne State University is a national model for student success, is recognized for its community impact, and is respected across the nation and around the world for its scholarship and health services, particularly in addressing health disparities in major cities,” Espy said. “I in clinical neuropsychology from the University of Houston.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The freshmen decline] is a reversal of last year’s growth, taking the size of the freshman class back to pre-2022 levels,” said Shapiro, noting the data doesn’t show a clear cause for the decline. He anticipates some changes as additional data is included. “[The By comparison, freshman enrollment at comparable community colleges shows a 1.2%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2024

in January 2022, roughly 582,000 people experienced homelessness. In reality, after grants and scholarships, one year of community college “now costs students an excess of $15,000 a year,” said Goldrick-Rab. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) found on any given night in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. GBC has an endowed scholarship fund from the Goizueta Foundation, and utilizing this fund, GBC began pursuing Hispanic students in the region. She notes it helps build community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Institutions of higher education, specifically land grant/grab institutions, were established as part of these efforts in conquest. Even outside of the land grant system — all institutions of higher education in the U.S. Instead, they were forced to learn English, and adopt Eurocentric agriculture practices and industrial skills.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. The Mount has proudly been an HSI since the late 1990s, Burns says, and about 51% of its students are Pell Grant eligible.

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Scholarship America

JANUARY 28, 2023

Updated January 2023 Students and their families are often surprised to realize some colleges reduce their financial aid packages when the student earns private scholarship dollars—a practice called financial aid displacement or award displacement. They take unique approaches to scholarship aid that reduce the chance of displacement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

The students, Phi Theta Kappa’s 2021-2022 International Officer Team — a group of five peer-elected student leaders from across the nation — launched an advocacy campaign they called CCSmart. The launch was assisted by a planning grant from the Kresge Foundation.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Irving Fradkin, had a simple but profound idea: if everyone in his community gave just a dollar to a scholarship fund, it would be enough to help every student in the community attend college. That idea blossomed into what is now Scholarship America, the nation’s largest provider of private scholarships.

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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. Dr. Tiffany S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of Fall 2022, Latino students comprise 50.64% of all full-time undergraduates and 49.68% of all part-time undergraduates. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino. Edward’s University St.

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Scholarship America

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The new school year is here, and that means the start of another busy scholarship season! Now is the perfect time to start making your plans, researching the scholarships you want to apply for and brushing up on the do’s and don’ts of scholarship applications. Applications are open through November 1.

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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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Scholarship America

MAY 12, 2023

Support for students can take many forms; starting a scholarship program can ensure you have an impact now, and well into the future. Establishing a Scholarship Fund The first step toward establishing a scholarship program is determining where the funds will come from – and there are as many options available as there are donors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. He participated in the 2022 PBS documentary “Being Free” by Roadtrip Nation, featuring system-impacted people showing how your past doesn’t have to determine your future.

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Student Loan Hero

DECEMBER 1, 2022

31, 2022: Federal student loan forbearance is set to end (Note: This has now been extended further – see below) Six months after graduation: Grace period on your student loans ends. June 30, 2022. 1, 2022 for the 2023-2024 year) and remains open through the end of the school year (June 30, 2023 for the 2022-2023 year).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 15, 2024

It has done that with an 86% success rate for the 2022-23 academic year. Project upGRADS, which is funded by a federal grant, aims to improve access to and success in graduate education. Fall 2022 data shows Latinx META participants had a 3.73 GPA and a persistence rate of 94.4%. The summer 2024 META had almost 200 participants.

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Scholarship America

APRIL 26, 2023

Of course, choosing your college also means figuring out how you’re paying—and, while scholarship season is slowing down, there are still plenty of options out there. LendKey Scholarship Program LendKey connects students with credit unions for in-school loans and student loan refinancing options. Apply now !

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” It also helped that, shortly before Vasquez Heilig arrived at the university in 2022, WMU received an anonymous donation in the amount of $550 million—the largest single gift to a public university—to help advance this important work.

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College Aid Consulting Services

OCTOBER 12, 2022

FAFSA applications started on October 1, 2022. Academic Year FAFSA Open FAFSA Deadline Corrections Due 2022-2023 October 1, 2021 June 30, 2023 September 10, 2023 2023-2024 October 1, 2022 June 30, 2024 September 10, 2024 *Until further notice from the FSA, those dates will not change for subsequent academic years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). Less than 10% of applicants are accepted.

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JUNE 5, 2023

The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. In the fall of 2022, Webster hosted a diversity career fair for which corporations were asked to provide a statement about how DEI shows up in their organizational mission.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Granting that sort of leeway to aspiring and professional scientists from underrepresented groups has only increased during the five decades that SACNAS has been operating and growing. How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? People may call that elitist.

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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. Scholarship America’s Scholarships : We’re not the only provider of private scholarships, but we are the largest!

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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

billion in Pell Grant funds on the table , along with millions of dollars in SNAP benefits, private scholarships and other forms of college financial aid. NCAN estimates that “about 767,000 students from the high school class of 2022 who would be eligible for Pell Grants did not complete the FAFSA.” More than 3.2

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID. Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025. Our board, staff, and network convened in person for the first time in three years.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Scholarship awards and financial aid can help ease the financial burden of attending college. For students who identify as Hispanic or Latino, there are many scholarships worth exploring. Consider these 20 scholarships for Hispanic and Latino students as a starting point in finding ways to fund your higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. And in the past decade – up to fall 2022 – 97% of Latinx fellows (32 participants) earned their master’s degrees.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID. Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025. Our board, staff, and network convened in person for the first time in three years.

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Student Loan Hero

DECEMBER 22, 2022

While some aid is based on financial need (such as subsidized loans and Pell Grants), other aid is not (such as unsubsidized federal loans). Below are the types of federal financial aid you can obtain as a result of filling out the FAFSA: Federal Pell Grant. Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG).

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