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Maryland Teachers Receive Tuition-Free National Board Certification

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The partnership will also ensure students have access to rigorous and meaningful curricula, college and career pathways as they work on their certification. This process facilitates the introspection required for transformative teaching and learning our students deserve. I firmly believe perception informs pedagogy.

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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million students enrolled in colleges and universities. Collectively, as researchers, we have about 50 or more years of experience conducting empirical studies on Black men attending diverse institutional types, ranging from predominantly White institutions, community colleges, and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs).

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UNCF's Career Pathways Initiative and HBCUv Platform are Driving Transformational Change Through Innovation and Alliances

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The United Negro College Funds (UNCF) Institute for Capacity Building (ICB) is leveraging the power of networks, technology and innovation to help Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs) achieve their missions. In 2015, UNCF received a $50 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc.

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Why We Can’t Wait: The Early Learning Imperative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A big part of the future of higher education access and success lies before children even reach kindergarten. Research shows that children who lack access to high-quality early education options often enter kindergarten already behind their peers, contributing to significant academic achievement gaps.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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While this is not a program specific to Native Americans, the state’s four tribal colleges are eligible institutions along with Minnesota State Colleges and Universities and all University of Minnesota campuses. Francis-Begay, governing council chair for the National Institute for Native Leadership in Higher Education. Dr. Gresham D.

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While a post-secondary degree, even a two-year degree, increases earning potential and social access, substantial benefits that lead to sustainable personal gains greatly depend on a variety of factors. Increasing options for obtaining education have not necessarily equated to increased access to education.

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The Importance of Immigrant-Origin Students to Two Campuses, Higher Education, and the USA

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colleges and universities, up from 20 percent in 2000. Our institution is approximately one-third first generation immigrant, like my parents, and approximately one-third second generation immigrantthe children of newcomers. As a recent report from the Presidents Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration highlighted , an analysis of U.S.