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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dr. Gresham D.

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One Million Behind Bars Now Have Access to Academic Research Through JSTOR

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program, which provides incarcerated individuals with access to scholarly materials including academic journals, books, and research papers, crossed this threshold in December 2024. Since 2019, the program has seen dramatic growth, supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Ascendium Education Group.

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From Crisis to Solutions: Global Conference Charts New Course for Urban Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

HBCU students not only attended this year’s conference, but they participated in a service project and built bookshelves and delivered over 450 books to a local elementary school in Cancun that did not have a library until last week. But it has to be intentional."

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These types of Native American tuition waivers or programs are a great step, particularly for our state institutions and land grant institutions, to recognize their foundation and history that is often based on the dispossession of land for Indigenous people and tribal nations,” says Shotton in an interview with Diverse.

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With Pell Grants Expanding to the Incarcerated, Experts Say Prisons Need To be Less Restrictive of Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Congress voted in December 2020 to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated Americans after a 26-year ban, advocates hailed the move as an opportunity for 760,000 people in prison to achieve a better life through education. In the prisons where I work, they’re limited to no more than 10 books total,” she said.

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What to Expect When Expecting a DEI Layoff

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are plenty of how-to books and articles about picking yourself up after a job loss, but we rarely discuss the pain of losing our workspace and the daily routines we once shared with colleagues. We must acknowledge how all the labor and passion that we pour into our work can be taken for granted by presidents and CEOs.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.