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JUNE 28, 2023

On July 1 st , incarcerated Americans will re-gain access to Pell grants for the first time in nearly 30 years. Reformers have hailed the change as a critical step towards enabling people in prison to experience the myriad benefits of higher education. Even if it’s not 100%, it’s going to be damn near 100%.” “I

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., educational leadership & policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. At age 32, Dr. Mary Dueñas has a clear goal.

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JUNE 3, 2024

Waded Cruzado The annual award acknowledges the role mentors play in the success of participants in the ACE Fellows Program, which was established in 1965 to help prepare faculty and administrators for senior positions in higher education leadership. She served twice on the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development.

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JULY 15, 2024

He also oversaw the growth in fundraising and grant procurement. Jackson previously served as president of Black Hills State University in South Dakota and has held other leadership roles within higher education, including vice president for Student Affairs at both the University of Louisville and Texas A&M University-Kingsville.

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JUNE 29, 2023

Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. John's University.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Institutions of higher education, specifically land grant/grab institutions, were established as part of these efforts in conquest. As thoroughly documented by High Country News , forced land dispossessions serve as the foundation for institutions of higher education in the U.S.

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MAY 9, 2023

Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I Cerano and Evans are MCT Scholars, part of a new program from the Dr. Melvin C.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

One Black British academic felt “discriminated against for promotion” while white colleagues with fewer high-profile publications or research grants were promoted instead. This parallels findings in the U.S., where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. says Patton Davis.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Another unsettling finding is that, while 2024 CCSSE respondents who are Pell Grant recipients reported intent to transfer at roughly the same rates as non-Pell Grant recipients, the Tracking Transfer report shows that only 11% of low-income students who started at a community college earned a bachelor’s degree in six years.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Pell Grant recipients or those who qualified for free school breakfast or lunch were eligible for the ACP. The program emerged as a way to help families remain connected to workforce and educational opportunities as they moved online. million grant from the U.S. Department of Education to expand their work. UNITE, Inc.,

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APRIL 4, 2024

Credit toward a college credential for prior learning Dr. Sonya Christian Another strategy that colleges are using is to assess and grant credit for prior life experiences. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2023

million grant from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information – will select undergraduates for training, advising, and support to increase readiness for medical school. Dr. Belinda Campos UC PRIME Pre-Health Pathways (UCPPP) – it is receiving funding from a five-year, $3.6

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MARCH 15, 2023

The launch was assisted by a planning grant from the Kresge Foundation. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership at Kansas State University. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The overhaul – which comes with form simplifications, different student aid measures and calculations, and expanded Pell Grant eligibility – is expected to be beneficial and to increase federal financial aid eligibility, according to a 2023 report from the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).

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APRIL 20, 2023

Students receiving Pell grants have graduation rates 21 percentage points lower than students who are not Pell-eligible. Common recommendations included improved advising services, guided pathways for students, and proactive, targeted financial aid and completion grants. It is time for transformative system change.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. When Achieving the Dream (ATD) launched an innovative regional Professional Learning Community (PLC) project to strengthen career pathways for communities, the college eagerly applied and was awarded a grant to participate. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership.

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MARCH 19, 2024

Ahead of the Game is increasing its momentum as it gears up to begin its second year, with additional funding from Pepperdine and a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation. Almost all of the parents of the high schoolers later reported that their children earned A’s in their fall semester math course.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education.

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OCTOBER 16, 2024

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Retention levels of those who received the grant were 96% across the state. “It Dr. Travis Smith, an assistant professor of educational leadership, policy, and law at Alabama State University, said he found it “extremely soothing” to hear that educators might finally be rewarded and recognized for the duty they perform for the country.

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

It has shown up in her leadership while she was chair of the Michigan State University Board of Trustees, and it shows up throughout her scholarship and teaching at Wayne State University, where she is one of only two Black women in her department to be elevated to full professor. I see leadership as everyone’s responsibility,” she continues.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” In 2018, he was named dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, where he strategically increased student enrollment by 63 percent and led 3,000 students, staff and faculty in a college that touted a $25 million budget.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The first African American in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis to earn tenure and be appointed to a named professorship, Jackson would eventually work his way up the ranks of the faculty, ultimately securing the rank of full professor and taking on the role of department chair. I gave up.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. Washington is the president and co-founder of Washington Consulting Group (WCG).

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JANUARY 22, 2025

Title: Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 36 Education: B.A., Henry returned to Wisconsin in June 2020, amid the pandemic and social upheaval, but this time as a faculty member in the Leadership and Policy Analysis program.

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President Sacks talked to us about the view on the ground versus the big picture, her personal leadership journey, some of her proudest accomplishments, strategies for decision making, and the power of both information and knowledge. And that got us the grant. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”

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JANUARY 20, 2023

Collier, an assistant professor of higher and adult education in the department of leadership at the University of Memphis. “We It would make a lot more sense to spend it upfront, do something like increase the Pell Grant,” he said.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

candidate studying educational leadership & policy analysis and gender & women studies. Terrell Educational Foundation, Inc. is to provide support for African American, LatinX and other underrepresented groups through scholarships, grants and professional development. The mission of the Dr. Melvin C.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

HSI grants can be worth up to $250,000 over four years. These grants are given with the intent to be used to meet the needs of the Latinx students at the institution. Attendees came from across the U.S. to gather ideas, share information, and network with others who work to build equity and opportunity in the academic world.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Dr. Robert Kelchen, head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville “ It appears to be a pretty serious threat ,” said Dr. Robert Kelche n , head of the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Jon Fansmith Fansmith is hopeful that Biden will discuss federal financial aid, particularly the possibility of doubling the Pell Grant. Wong also said calls to make investments to keep American higher education No. 1 in the world and to re-authorize the Higher Education Act might attract interest from both sides of the aisle.

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JANUARY 19, 2023

Many experts believe that the Biden administration’s plan for student loan forgiveness, which offers $10,000 of debt relief to most borrowers and $20,000 to Pell Grant recipients, is dead in the water at the conservative-dominated Supreme Court. It will often grant standing when it wants to take a case and deny standing when it doesn’t.”

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

Pell Grants make college more affordable for vulnerable populations and borrowers and employers can now complete an online application, making it quicker to see loans forgiven.

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MAY 30, 2025

Tonya Smith-Jackson North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Provost Dr. Tonya Smith-Jackson has been appointed chancellor of Rutgers UniversityNewark, marking a significant leadership transition for the public research university. She has also presided over dramatic increases in both research staff and graduate assistants.

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MARCH 11, 2024

Biden has made access to affordable education a cornerstone of his presidential tenure, and he reinforced that position by calling for an increase in Pell Grants and a further increase in “our record investments in HBCUs [Historically Black Colleges and Universities] and Hispanic and Minority Serving Institutions [HSIs and MSIs].”

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JULY 11, 2023

It had never been applied to a class as broad as those would have been forgiven under the first plan, which attempted to cancel $10,000 of debt for those who earn under $125,000 and $20,000 for Pell Grant recipients. The text says, ‘any claim.’ Implementation—when student borrowers would actually begin to get relief—could be later still.

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