Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

The updated report also reveals changes in scholarship practices across law schools. Similarly, the percentage of entering law students receiving conditional scholarships reached its lowest point since 2011, at 19% of all matriculants. Bar passage rates continue to show racial disparities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at? The third sentence Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez credits his mother, grandparents, and tas for nurturing his passion for study and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. The 6888th – the only all-female unit in Army history – was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in March 2022. A Tarleton State University doctoral student and U.S. Army veteran Nicole Burkett has recently been named the inaugural recipient of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

That explains quite a bit about Gomezs scholarship, teaching methods and service. His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at? The third sentence Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez credits his mother, grandparents, and tas for nurturing his passion for study and community engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year. Another of Common App’s projects is a way to get money and scholarships in the hands of underrepresented minority students and low-income students to help them afford college. Emma Steele The organization is making deliberate moves to fix that disparity. labor force.

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Scholarship America

DECEMBER 5, 2022

As 2022 comes to an end, scholarship season is getting busier—and the holiday break is a perfect time to make some headway on your searches and applications. Scholarships up to $40,000, paid internships and more are out there waiting for you! GE-Reagan Foundation Scholarship Program. Westlake Scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2023

His donation to his alma mater comes after pledging to do so during the 2022 BET Awards. This is not the first time Combs has donated to Howard, having donated to the school’s business program back in 2016 for student scholarships and internship opportunities, according to Howard’s school paper The Hilltop.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The company had announced its goal to move the SAT to digital in January 2022, aiming to increase ease of use. Priscilla Rodriguez Starting 2023, all SAT exams outside of the U.S. will use the digital format, with the U.S. itself following suit in 2024. As a first-generation American and the child of immigrants who came to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2023

As punishment for offenses such as cash payments totaling about $60,000 given directly to recruits’ parents, the NCAA imposed a multimillion-dollar fine; took away scholarships; and barred former Tennessee Coach Jeremy Pruitt from being hired without N.C.A.A. approval for six years. Donde Plowman, chancellor of the University of Tennessee.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

Jefferson said that institutions should be aware of this kind of inequity and make more scholarships available for those who come into their institutions with lower GPAs or LSAT scores, particularly as race-based scholarships and need-based scholarships are phased out.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

The gift to the UH College of Nursing is meant to strengthen nursing education and research, fund scholarships and fellowships, and increase the nurse workforce. left the workplace due to the stresses of the pandemic, according to a 2022 survey by the National Council of State Boards of Nursing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 24, 2024

In 2022, under Hardrick's tenure, the university unveiled plans to create an on-campus Technology and Innovation Hub partnership with Ted Lucas of Slip-n-Slide Records and TechNolij Inc. After FMU's accreditation status was placed on probation, Hardrick worked to ensure that the university made improvements and remained in good standing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2023

This move comes after a recommendation for state funding based on “measurable outcomes” from a 2022 commission the Texas legislature created. The bill could also create a scholarship program for economically disadvantaged students in dual-credit courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships. Our Fall 2022 first-gen, first-year retention rate (81.5%) outpaced their non-first-gen peers (78.6%). While it’s no surprise that these students show immense drive, their energy and passion are inspiring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Jessica’s scholarship is widely acclaimed and her contributions to the field of education have been significant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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 14, 2024

The Council raises funds and provides scholarships to Latinx students, and, on September 19, as part of NJIT’s kickoff for Hispanic Heritage Month, the Council, along with NJIT president Dr. Teik C. Since 2022, Dr. David E. The goal was to achieve these numbers by 2025, but NJIT hit its target by the spring of 2024.

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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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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Spooky season is upon us, but there’s nothing to be scared of when it comes to finding scholarships! A quick look at our Browse Scholarships page will treat you to lots of options—and applying doesn’t have to be tricky. SMART awards over 400 scholarships annually to STEM students across the nation.

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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 Morgan State University in Maryland and Johnson C.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

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. Central to these tradeoffs is whether the program will provide first-dollar or last-dollar benefits.

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MARCH 21, 2024

In 2022, a group of students made a request to Rhodes College President Dr. Jennifer Collins for the physical site. “It Rhodes College will unveil and dedicate its new National Pan-Hellenic Council Plaza on March 23, at 11 a.m., south of the Bryan Campus Life Center.

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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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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 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. But it’s not just a problem facing the West Coast. For students, the unhoused data points can be shocking.

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Scholarship America

JANUARY 8, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS (January 8, 2024) – Scholarship America, the nation’s largest scholarship administrator, has selected Abigail Seldin as its new Chief Growth Officer. We are thrilled to welcome Abigail to the Scholarship America executive team,” said Scholarship America President and CEO Mike Nylund.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. The total student loan debt reached $1.75

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

November is National Scholarship Month —and that makes it a perfect time to apply for prestigious, generous scholarships like those from our featured partners! are invited to apply for up to $20,000 from the Equitable Excellence Scholarship; and students living with inflammatory disease can earn up to $15,000 from AbbVie.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

The hip-hop impresario first pledged the gift while receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 BET Awards. He had previously given $1 million to Howard in 2016 to establish a scholarship fund and had said that he would donate a further $1 million to the school in the same acceptance speech.

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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. In addition, you must have a 3.0 GPA (on a 4.0

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Paying for students Multiple recipient schools told Diverse that they are using their Scott donations at least partially on scholarship programs. Northeast College’s College Access Scholarship and Renton Technical College’s McCarthy Bridge Grant program are two examples. Likewise, Renton Technical College devoted $1.6

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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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Scholarship America

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Some of our biggest-name and biggest-dollar partner scholarships are open now—don’t miss out! Learn more about these incredible opportunities below, and visit our Browse Scholarships page for a listing of everything you can apply for right now! It’s helping me develop a solid foundational grasp of the world of finance.”

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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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