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Collaborations between Virginia Tech and historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) or other minority-serving institutions (MSIs) have led to 15 research projects supported by grant funding. to bolster research on campus. “We

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JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams. Colleges looking to expand resources for formerly incarcerated students need to know that help is available and collaboration is essential. In the words of Derrick A.

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MARCH 15, 2024

To adapt effectively, we need to rethink how we deliver the educational experience, which requires innovation and collaboration from everyone, regardless of whether you’re supporting an institution or working at one. The lack of access to technology for some students has exacerbated existing equity issues.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Rhodes College joins the collective of 137 public and private colleges and universities nationwide who work collaboratively to expand access and opportunity for highly talented low- and moderate-income students. ATI, formed in 2016, comprises regional and flagship public institutions and leading private colleges and universities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. Everyone at PWNA is sincerely grateful for this recent funding from Synchrony.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the BMRI amplifies collaborative thought leadership, and social justice and strives to counter conflicting narratives, distrust and ambiguity with a clear, authoritative voice on the experiences of Black men. Funded by a $1.4 and James L.

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MARCH 1, 2024

has awarded a grant worth nearly $1 million to the Howard University College of Medicine to promote HIV prevention among Black women and girls. million in grants to the medical school’s Department of Pediatrics and Child Health and 18 other organizations as part of its new Setting the P.A.C.E. “The Gilead Sciences Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. The funding comes as part of a California program to tackle issues of equity in higher ed and the workforce. But California State University, Fullerton’s efforts to tackle this issue got a major boost recently with the announcement of $1.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Racial diversity among research faculty on the national scale is low, with 4% Black, 4% Latinx, 0.2% American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

As institutions across the United States strive to support and sustain their workforce and provide high-quality resources to students, this is a pivotal time for collaboration”, she continued. “As

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MARCH 27, 2024

In Portland, multiple community colleges and universities benefit from the work of College Housing Northwest, a nonprofit operating properties offering below market rent and supportive services exclusively for college students (in full disclosure, I’m collaborating with CHNW to expand their effort).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. The Mount has proudly been an HSI since the late 1990s, Burns says, and about 51% of its students are Pell Grant eligible. asks Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sharrelle Barber Title: Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Age: 38 Education: B.S., and Brazil.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Giving a student a grant of $3,500 for living expenses is money out the door. And although it may be short-lived, Trimarchi thinks that the collaboration can still be influential. “My Increasing the student body is likely to lead to more graduates and to more alumni donors down the line.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

We’re the only place where there’s two land-grant colleges in the same city,” says Pierre, adding that he and Tate are pushing forward with a new initiative called the A&M Agenda. With the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion within higher education, HBCUs are “even more relevant and important today,” he says.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Johnson Predoctoral Fellow, named for the man who led to the desegregation of UK, and a UNITE Predoctoral Fellow, which is related to a research priority area based on equity. Ingram says he has been most fortunate, as the funds from these and other grants enable him to focus on his research and writing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

We’ve also advocated for need-based financial aid investments and, alongside fellow advocates, pushed lawmakers to increase the maximum Pell Grant award. We supported bipartisan coalitions to successfully reinstate Pell Grant access for students who are incarcerated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

In between, Jackson maintained a productive research agenda, pumping out books and scholarly articles and securing millions in research for Wisconsin’s Equity and Inclusion Laboratory, where he served for 13 years as founding director and chief research scientist. As a land-grant, it’s a “delicate dance,” as faculty and administrators see it.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. The UIA was founded by a pioneering group of university presidents and chancellors committed to breaking down the silos inhibiting collaboration, and to leading on testing, sharing, and scaling ideas across the sector to help more students succeed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” Equity has long been a part of Western Michigan University’s DNA. We’re very fortunate to be one of the very few research universities to have two people of color leading it and that’s remarkable,” says Vasquez Heilig who is both Latino and Black.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2023

We welcomed new colleagues, celebrated a long-time equity champion , and commemorated 30 years of advancing equitable college access and success. Through our Postsecondary Data Collaborative, we’ve mobilized the field by leading 14 advocacy letters on topics ranging from the reauthorization of the Education Sciences Reform Act to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My It’s all a team effort,” Means said. My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “My My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The grant award will be used to fund Scholarship America’s ambitious data insights project, unifying large data repositories and applying analytics and visualization for deep, detailed, and actionable insights. Since it was founded in 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $5.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Colleges and universities nationwide have established Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) offices for years to increase faculty diversity and help students from various backgrounds succeed at the post-secondary level and beyond. In the past few months, DEI advocates at the university level have witnessed their livelihoods at risk.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Fundamental to all of this is the need to develop strategies born out of active and collaborative partnership, not merely looking within our own spheres.” In addition to focusing on associate degree earners, they have an explicitly stated emphasis on diversity and equity,” said Harrison. Stout, president and CEO of ATD.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2024

Equity Seeing so many African American undergraduate and graduate students excelling in STEM fields is inspiring to Smith-Jackson. Williams is also involved in curriculum development and recently received a $600,000 grant focused on food allergies research in education. He says N.C. Williams shares an N.C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 In addition to more than 30 academic and certificate programs, there are bachelor’s degree programs offered in collaboration with Colorado University, Denver. As he prepares to retire Aug. Among the highlights of his presidency is serving a diverse student population.

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MAY 1, 2024

“It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit. Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs. After completing his Ph.D.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Corporate Partnerships: Forge partnerships with corporations to secure additional funding for scholarships and grants. Proactive Outreach and Recruitment: Community Partnerships: Collaborate with community organizations and schools to identify and recruit eligible students from diverse backgrounds.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion Grants. Completion Grants. Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid. In spring 2021, the UIA concluded its four-year completion grant initiative after providing more than 5,000 microgrants (valued at $3.6 Understanding how students may use their completion grant funds. College to Career.

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Single Stop

MARCH 6, 2023

Some of the public assistance programs included in the screening are Health First Colorado, Federal Pell Grant, and the Affordable Connectivity Program. Colorado’s collaboration with Single Stop is propelled by shared values of helping individuals address their basic needs for food, housing, and economic stability.

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MAY 11, 2023

The summit featured repeated calls for disaggregated data to inform policy and practice, especially data disaggregated by race/ethnicity and Pell Grant recipient status. I applaud ED for creating space for policymakers and institutional leaders to discuss the importance of using data to improve student success and educational equity.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2023

For this to happen, we simply must achieve equity for those student groups that have been traditionally underserved. We are grateful for a grant from the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation to support this work. Seven UIA campuses are now participating in the second round of this collaborative effort.

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