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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“As we grow our numbers, we build our community, and we strengthen that community, which then creates an environment where it’s attractive for other Indigenous faculty, staff, and students to come to our university,” says Leonard. Fees, housing, meals, books, all of that adds up.”

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Providing Tuition Assistance to Native American Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“As we grow our numbers, we build our community, and we strengthen that community, which then creates an environment where it’s attractive for other Indigenous faculty, staff, and students to come to our university,” says Leonard. Fees, housing, meals, books, all of that adds up.”

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Alabama A&M Launches Effort to Combat Racial STEM Teacher Gap

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Kim Hughes, director of the UTeach Institute at the University of Texas “What we have learned is when you require students to spend more time or more money to become a teacher, it becomes a barrier, especially for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As minoritized individuals and scholars, we must set the record straight on several real ‘issues/problems’ confronting students of color. This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation. internships).

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Unequal Distribution

NACAC's Admitted

Further, Pell Grants cover just under one-third of tuition and fees at the average four-year, public college in the nation, leaving families to cover the remaining two-thirds of tuition, along with living expenses, books, and other costs. Oftentimes low-income students rely on loans they are stuck paying back over many years, even decades.

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How Net Price Calculators Can Better Serve Students

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

In theory, this figure should account for the total cost of attendance – which includes average yearly tuition and fees, room and board, books, supplies, and transportation – minus any aid (need- or ‘merit’-based, federal, state, and institutional) that a student could potentially receive.

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Demystifying Graduate School: A Guide for First-Gen BIPOC and Nontraditional Students

COE

We aim to demystify the graduate school application process, particularly for first-generation black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC, nontraditional, and low-income students who often lack access to essential resources. Our book, “ Is Grad School for Me?