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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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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building on Current Initiatives to Support Prospective Native Students Currently, MSU offers the Maynard Kennedy Turtle Island Acknowledgement Scholarship, which has similar benefits to NATAP but is only offered to a limited number of students each year. Fees, housing, meals, books, all of that adds up.”

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

López — the daughter of immigrants — says the land-grant university was a promising choice, given its scholars and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico One is the anti-DEI push being made on the field, including book bans at the K-12 level and the targeting of student resources in higher education.

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Building on Current Initiatives to Support Prospective Native Students Currently, MSU offers the Maynard Kennedy Turtle Island Acknowledgement Scholarship, which has similar benefits to NATAP but is only offered to a limited number of students each year. Fees, housing, meals, books, all of that adds up.”

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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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GAO Report: Cost of College Remains a Mystery

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Award letters have really not done a great job of distinguishing between grants and loans, sometimes intentionally.” The GAO estimated that 41% of colleges don’t include a net price and that 50% understate it, often by excluding key costs such as books and including aid that must be repaid, like loans.

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"Change Schools, We Can Change the World"

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has shown up in her leadership while she was chair of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and it shows up throughout her scholarship and teaching at Wayne State University, where she is one of only two Black women in her department to be elevated to full professor. Vassar, affectionately known now as “Dr.

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