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Pell Grant Increase Will Help Low-Income Students, But More is Needed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. The total student loan debt reached $1.75

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Rhodes College Joins Initiative to Expand Access for Highly Talented Low-Income Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In concert with Rhode College’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as well as affordability, the Office of Admission strives to identify, recruit, and enroll domestic students who are underrepresented in higher education, including first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color.

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Report: State Financial Aid Programs Show Varying Levels of Accessibility and Equity

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," insufficient state investments in higher education over the past two decades have led to significant increases of tuition rates and fees at public four-year colleges, leading to bigger hurdles for students looking to attend college, particularly for low-income students and those from marginalized communities.

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Doing More with Less: HSIs and the Recipe for Upward Mobility

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Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice at Rutgers University. Ben Rayder, executive director of the Office of Undergraduate Research and Major Awards at UH, said his office works with low-income students to remove barriers they may encounter as they become researchers.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

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We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.” GSU began relying on predictive data to proactively assist students. Over the last decade, the program has given out roughly 20,000 grants and has become a national model.

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Harvard Admission Numbers Show Post-SCOTUS Diversity is Accidental at Best

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No one knows exactly where we stand on the most important matters of racial equity. To take away equity paths for people of color and leave us all in the dark. Harvard’s incoming class has 20.7 percent who have qualified for federal Pell grants for low-income students. And there are 20.5

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Alabama A&M Launches Effort to Combat Racial STEM Teacher Gap

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Kim Hughes, director of the UTeach Institute at the University of Texas “What we have learned is when you require students to spend more time or more money to become a teacher, it becomes a barrier, especially for first-generation students, low-income students, and students of color.

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