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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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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino. Edward’s University St.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Ellucian Foundation will award grants to 25 two-year colleges to help support students facing economic challenges. Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In Fiscal Year 2023, the most recent evaluation year in the classification cycle, the University's productivity was significantly higher than the R1 base criteria, recording just under $85 million in research expenditures and awarding 96 doctorates in an array of fields, Jones said. Dr. Bruce A. Howard reaching R1 status is phenomenal.

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JUNE 10, 2025

and the board asked me to stay on as executive director in 2023,” he explains. The organization’s first formal strategic plan, adopted in October 2023, outlines ambitious goals for the next three years. “The board asked me to serve for the rest of that year as interim executive director.

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MARCH 5, 2025

White students were the only group to see a decline in transfer enrollment from fall 2023 to fall 2024. While Bergen is a strong transfer institution, Hlavenka said the college has expanded its focus on workforce, training and continuing education grants. Thats a really encouraging sign. The fall 2022 transfer cohort had an 83.6%

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JANUARY 31, 2025

I think the most important piece to this was we didnt ask for the planning grant, remembers Curry. We went directly for the project funding grant. Once Compton College gathered all of the data and support they needed, college leaders submitted a proposal. Curry, however, was intentional about the request.

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MAY 14, 2025

million in 2023 and was expected to surpass $50 million for 2024. A progress report for 2018-2023 and other universitysources lists a series of research feats at MorganState. Those feats include getting an HBCU record high13 patents in 2023. Were knocking on the door to being an R1, says Dr. Willie E.

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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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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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APRIL 22, 2025

Black and Hispanic students comprised 22% of first-year enrollment in the 2023-24 academic year but accounted for 33% of non-transfer attrition. In comparison, white students receive aid packages averaging $39,400, with 55% in federal loans and 36% in institutional grants. Bar passage rates continue to show racial disparities.

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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. 1, 2023, and a 25-student cohort will kick off the 36-credit hour program this coming May. Dr. Roderick L.

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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. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Dr. Ivory A.

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MARCH 19, 2025

According to the report, the HEERF funding model was groundbreaking in three key ways: it represented an unprecedented federal investment in community colleges, it based allocations partially on Pell Grant recipients, and it included special funding for institutions serving students of color.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In fall of 2023, 5.3% It seems to be a very good sign for access to bachelor degrees for students who might not be able to afford four years at a bachelor-degree granting institution.” more students than the previous year were able to successfully transfer to a new institution.

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. on a proposal preparing math and science teachers for middle school, resulting in a five-year NSF grant of $1,199,762.

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JULY 31, 2023

Student success organization Catalyze has opened grant applications for the third round of its Catalyze Challenge. This round will award up to 25 pilot grants between $100,000-$250,000 to assist 6-12 months of exploratory work and early implementation. Awards will be announced in December 2023. Applications open Jul.

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Active Minds

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Our fall 2023 Send Silence Packing® tour kicked off last month, and we spoke with this semester’s tour coordinators, TJ and Jehlad, about their passion for mental health, why programs like SSP are so important, as well as the advice they would give to other young adults who are passionate about mental health advocacy.

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APRIL 17, 2023

Paxson received the 2023 TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence. She has also led efforts for The Brown Promise , which replaces loans in financial aid packages with grants that do not have to be repaid. Brown University President Dr. Christina H.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

will retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year. s leading producer of Black STEM graduates; received record research and sponsored programs contracts and grants; and produced a $2.4 North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr., Dr. Harold L. billion economic impact.

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MARCH 29, 2025

Before her ten-year tenure at Howard, Spivey-Brown held leadership positions at Loma Linda University and Washington Adventist University, where her accomplishments included expanding graduate and undergraduate programs, securing multimillion-dollar grants, and strengthening accreditation standards.

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College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Schools must also reconcile their Federal Work-Study (FWS) and Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant (FSEOG) awards in G5 with the amounts… More March 3, 2025 Deadline Set for Final Closeout of 2023-24 Campus-Based Awards The post March 3, 2025 Deadline Set for Final Closeout of 2023-24 Campus-Based Awards first appeared on College (..)

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

The Youth Mental Health and Suicide Prevention Act authorizes the Secretary of Health and Human Services to establish a grant program that enhances services for high school students with mental health and behavioral health issues such as depression, substance abuse, and suicide attempts.

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JUNE 3, 2025

Since launching the partnership in 2023, Oregon Tech has deployed success coaching throughout the student lifecycle, from helping learners choose the right academic program to building plans for balancing education with other life responsibilities. "At We need to actively walk alongside students as they navigate their journey."

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JANUARY 21, 2025

With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams. The absence of outcry speaks volumes, reinforcing the notion that the presence of these students on campus is tolerated rather than embraced.

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MAY 21, 2025

These participants were drawn from a broader sample of 1,865 parents applying for schools in the 2022-2023 academic year. Grant Foundation, offers valuable insights for educational policymakers, school administrators, and communities working to create more equitable and inclusive educational systems in increasingly diverse American cities.

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College Aid Services

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

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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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Logan Powell Frank Mullin The university reports that about 18% of its new 1,725-student class come from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, a decline from 27% in 2023. About 45% will receive need-based scholarship or grant aid, a decrease from 50%; and roughly 14% are first-generation college students, down from 15%.

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APRIL 6, 2025

In September 2023, the Rutgers University Senate passed a no-confidence vote (89-47) citing concerns about shared governance following decisions including the merger of medical schools and his handling of a faculty strike. His tenure saw both accomplishments and challenges.

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JANUARY 28, 2023

Posted: January 26, 2023 Author: Federal Student Aid Subject: 2023-2024 Federal Pell Grant Payment and Disbursement Schedules Attached to this letter are both PDF and Excel versions of the Payment and Disbursement Schedules for determining Federal Pell Grant awards for the 2023-2024 award year (July 1, 2023, through June 30, 2024) […] The post (..)

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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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OCTOBER 24, 2023

and several other Democrats – would amend the 1965 Higher Education Act “to establish grants for tuition-free community colleges, student success grants,” and grants for HBCUs, Tribal colleges and universities (TCUs), and minority-serving institutions (MSIs), according to the bill. “I Tammy Baldwin (D-Wis.),

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Kendi announced the laying off of 19 people, in doing so prompting outside questions about the center’s grant management and why it had not completed more research with its funding. It found that CAR’s expenditures were appropriately charged to respective grant and gift accounts. Other findings from the examination are still to come.

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JULY 10, 2024

Davis was the college's interim president following the June 2023 resignation of then-President Vernell Bennett-Fairs. He helped fill key roles, including the chief financial officer and adding a director of campus safety and director of grants and strategic initiatives. “We

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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APRIL 19, 2024

The college was awarded a $1 million grant in 2023 from the U.S. The grant, part of the federal Childcare Access Means Parents in School Grant Program, brings the college closer to re-establishing a critical support service for hundreds of student parents pursuing higher education in Howard County.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

We are extremely grateful for this grant and for the support from the Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development,” said MassBay President Dr. David Podell. MassBay Community College will be offering free education and training in the areas of computers and technology to unemployed and underemployed workers.

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