Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

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. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. Federal Reserve. “On

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López — the daughter of immigrants — says the land-grant university was a promising choice, given its scholars and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico The University of Arizona is the first four-year public institution in the state to be federally recognized as a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 in human development from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2024

Katy Hall Such prohibited practices include diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives. HB261 also prohibits institutions from considering an individual’s personal identity characteristics in determining receipt of state financial aid, including waivers, but excluding private scholarships. The bill, sponsored by Utah State Rep.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

Sloan Foundation has announced the recipients of 10 seed grants to launch its Sloan Centers for Systemic Change (SCSC) initiative to transform their doctoral education programs in STEM fields. National Action Council For Minorities In Engineering The grants, totaling $2.5 in human development from The Pennsylvania State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Vassar, affectionately known now as “Dr.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JANUARY 9, 2024

New Mexico’s Opportunity Scholarship is a first-dollar program, in which state grants are applied before other types of aid, like Pell Grants, which can be used to cover living costs and other non-tuition expenses. Students may attend either a two-year or four-year New Mexican public institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

PCC’s Community Excellence Grants program allows faculty, staff, and students to propose ideas in service of the school, its diverse campus, and its nearby communities. According to the college, the internal grant awards total approximately $1 million a year. PCC is a place where we have a lot of creative thinking,” Boekelheide says.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

The grant award will be used to fund Scholarship America’s ambitious data insights project, unifying large data repositories and applying analytics and visualization for deep, detailed, and actionable insights.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships. For colleges, the cost of giving students scholarships may not be the same—the scholarship recipient may not have been able to pay for tuition anyway, and the incremental costs for things like professors and infrastructure doesn’t increase by much with a small number of additional students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

And my equity journey continues. But my longtime concerns for him as a parent have grown more severe in today’s anti-diversity, equity, and inclusion climate. 1—–a move that includes closing a popular multicultural center and ending a scholarship program for undocumented students at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

When the state of Illinois enacted the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity Scholarship (ECACE) Program, which funded ECE workers’ pursuit of credentials or degrees in their field, Meeker said students, particularly students of color, came flooding back to their institution. They experienced 300% influx.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Even at private nonprofit doctorate-granting universities, the most gated in the nation, 18% of students experience food insecurity. Diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice work requires basic needs work—without it, those efforts will almost certainly fall short. Basic needs insecurity affects even the highest achievers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

It becomes an equity issue,” said Kim Hughes, director of the UTeach Institute at the University of Texas. The project is being funded by a $2 million grant from the Alabama STEM Council, part of a larger package of spending to start UTeach programs at six schools in the state.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Over the past two decades, promise programs, in which recent high school graduates are offered free tuition to attend local colleges and universities, have become popular tools to bridge equity gaps in higher ed, with over 300 programs active in over 40 states. The study found that KPromise has many benefits.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Addressing health disparities means addressing access to healthcare equity,” she continues. These funds will go to scholarships and education for students pursuing studies in the areas of health science and public health. “With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2024

In Florida, the Southern Scholarship Foundation runs rent-free cooperative living houses supporting students from a diverse array of colleges and universities across the state. Among those students, 38% receive no parental support for paying any of their bills, and that rate jumps to 75% among parenting students receiving the Pell grant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. The Mount has proudly been an HSI since the late 1990s, Burns says, and about 51% of its students are Pell Grant eligible. asks Delgado.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My It’s all a team effort,” Means said. My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I He was co-PI, and the undergrads were co-researchers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). There is also an effort to increase equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

This year, Queens revamped its scholarship levels and allocation of aid to meet a higher percentage of students’ financial need. Institutions are also improving their financial aid offerings.

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The University Innovation Alliance

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. In 2021, we published our Completion Grants Playbook , and our CEO Bridget Burns joined the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor Ian Wilhelm to co-host this virtual conversation about helping under-resourced students complete their degrees. .

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

Granting that sort of leeway to aspiring and professional scientists from underrepresented groups has only increased during the five decades that SACNAS has been operating and growing. How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? How is that going to impact missions?”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sharrelle Barber Title: Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Age: 38 Education: B.S., and Brazil.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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College Planners of America

APRIL 29, 2025

These pre-planned investment strategies periodically adjust the mix of investments, reducing the percentage invested in equities as the child approaches college age. Scholarships and Grants: Research and apply for scholarships or grants to supplement savings and reduce college costs.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 23, 2019

A net price calculation provides students with guidance on what they should expect to cover – through self-payment, outside scholarship, or, if necessary, loans – and may help to assuage student concerns about high sticker prices. Students might be left wondering whether the estimate already includes valuable federal aid like Pell Grants.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

MAY 2, 2025

School choice initiatives like education savings accounts (ESAs), tax-credit scholarships, and voucher programs are rapidly reshaping the K12 education landscape. At the federal level, the proposed Education Choice for Children Act (ECCA 2025) could add another $10 billion annually in private K12 scholarships nationwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Now I do work in higher education politics and policies, analyzing the legislative bans against critical race theory (CRT) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI), says Briscoe. Its not just funding organizations that pay attention to Briscoes scholarship. That makes me attractive, and the work I do attractive."

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