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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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Dr. Emily Bouck, Michigan State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Emily Bouck is actively involved in grant writing and leads such funded programs. Bouck is published in over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored six books and over 30 book chapters. She examines such technological approaches as virtual manipulatives and the virtual manipulative-based instructional sequences.

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DeCuir-Gunby has published four books, including Race and Ethnicity in the Study of Motivation in Education [Routledge, 2016] and Understanding Critical Race Research Methods and Methodologies [Routledge, 2019]. More than $4 million in National Science Foundation grants have funded her work.

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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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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Back in December of 2020, the foundation awarded the then-budding EPP a $745,000 24-month grant that allowed the team to build up and grow. The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said.

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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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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sol Gittleman has penned a must-read book for anyone with a vested interest in the past, present, and future of American academia. Along the way, he touches on the Black land grant institutions authorized in 1890 by the Second Morrill Act.