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Dr. Maisha T. Winn, Stanford University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her scholarship examines how non-dominant youth and communities have developed literate trajectories across a range of historical and contemporary settings within and outside formal schooling. She is also the President-Elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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). Encourage research and scholarship on U.S. are immense. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population.

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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. Everyone at PWNA is sincerely grateful for this recent funding from Synchrony.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. The Executive Dashboard was meticulously designed through a collaborative development process involving strategic decision-making and technology choices to meet MDC’s unique needs,” says Pumariega.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The focus on English skills needed in an academic setting and tailored support services through the Academic Literacy & Language (ALL) Center have proven beneficial. We definitely pride ourselves on being on the forefront of collaboration when it comes to the school district, businesses and the community as a whole,” says Perez. “It

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OER23 part one: Higher Education for Good

Catherine Cronin

In our introductory chapter, we as editors sought to identify principles of good in higher education based on the depth and breadth of work across the book, as well as the wealth of global scholarship and experience on which it is based.

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

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. So in 2011, we began to pilot a program that requires no application on the student's part.