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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Analysis: Degree Completion Gaps for Hispanic Students are Widening

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And we have an entire database of what's working, so there are no excuses for inaction." There are institutions across this country that are enrolling and graduating Latino students that. are looking with intentionality and impact to serve these students and are doing well.

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Association Plans Africa-wide Universities Research Archive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Olusola Oyewole The Association of African Universities’ (AAU) African Research Innovation and Development (AfRID) network plans to set up a platform to serve as a database of all scholars in Africa and their research.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.” GSU’s student support team created a system of automatic micro-grants, which would be auto distributed to students in need. Tim Renick “Today, we’re over 80% nonwhite,” says Renick.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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I can go to conferences to build relationships with these students, creating a database, bringing it back, and sharing it with the department to do outreach,” Waller says. Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. The CEED graduate ambassadors contact the students to make connections.

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Adding Schools After Completing FAFSA

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Locate the “School Selection” page with the school codes and enter the school’s name in the search bar to bring up its code in the database. When filling out the FAFSA, we recommend you add in-state public colleges first, as this is the best way to be considered for state grants. Click “next” on the FAFSA correction home screen.

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Unlock a world of education with affordable study abroad programs

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Take advantage of specialized scholarships tailored to you for financial assistance and explore databases packed with funding options. There are various types of financial aid, including government-sponsored student aid, scholarships and grants. Gilman International Scholarship Program , offering grants of up to US$5,000 for U.S.