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We All Pay for Not Addressing the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among them are engaging in collaborative efforts with other entities that focus on enhancing literacy, providing training for high-wage industries, and creating pathways of opportunity for individuals without high school diplomas or GEDs.

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Universal Early Learning Coverage is Needed to Combat the School-to-Prison Pipeline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unfortunately, this sentiment holds true for far too many children who enter Kindergarten already behind their peers in terms of literacy skills and too many continue to fall further behind by the time they reach the crucial third-grade mark. The significance of third-grade literacy extends beyond academic success. Dr. Marcus A.

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NCAA Launches Collab with Meta on NIL Empower Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A new NCAA-Meta collaboration has launched a program to help women maximize their name, image and likeness (NIL) endeavors as college athletes. Corporate partner Invesco QQQ will assist the NCAA in building a financial literacy and career development session.

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Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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Latinos are key when it comes the nation’s engineering and technology workforce, according to a new joint report from the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE) and the Latino Donor Collaborative (LDC). Ana Valdez VoyageLA According to the report, the economic contributions the Latino community makes to the U.S. are immense.

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Phyllis Buchanan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For DuPont’s Phyllis Buchanan, “promoting science literacy for all” has been her motivator. Buchanan, who manages the company’s Office of Education, a division of DuPont’s Center for Collaborative Research and Education, considers “today’s students” to be “tomorrow’s scientists.”

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$2.1M Grant Aims to Diversify Geosciences

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The universities aim to change the culture of geosciences in their institutions and increase interest in geosciences over five years, collaborating with the East Carolina Environmental Justice Network, which will train students in how to work with communities to focus on problems relevant to them.

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