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San Diego Foundation Commits $4M to Help Underserved Students Reach College

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in 2023-24, only 4% of English learners, 8% of foster youth, and 8% of homeless students graduated. The foundation will distribute $935,000 in grants to 10 local nonprofits in San Diego providing services including tutoring, counseling, and college application assistance. While the overall graduation rate reached 84.6%

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Duke Ends Merit Scholarship for Students of African Descent

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Duke University is discontinuing its Reginaldo Howard Memorial Scholarship Program, a program for top applicants of African descent. Dr. Candis Watts Smith The decision comes in the wake of the 2023 U.S. No application is required for the scholarship, which pays full tuition, room, and board.

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Group Files OCR Complaint Over ‘Discriminatory’ Scholarship

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Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights discrimination complaint resolution procedures — objects to the university creating, supporting, and promoting the eligibility criterion for the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship, a four-year, full-tuition scholarship.

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TMCF Partners with Cosmetics Company for Scholarship Program

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The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) which represents public Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions, is partnering with cosmetics company Ivy Beauty to create a scholarship program. Applications for the program opened Jun. 5, with a deadline of Jul.

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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

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The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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The North Star Promise program is open to all Minnesota residents with a family Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) below $80,000, as reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).” Among the requirements for some Native American specific scholarships are uploading tribal I.D.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. The program began in Spring 2023 with 153 students, 87 of whom were Hispanic. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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