Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. Wright College, part of the City Colleges of Chicago, is home to an engineering cohort program that has grown from nine students at its inception to 550. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid. million) to low-income students facing modest financial hurdles to degree completion as they neared graduation. Students currently receive limited guidance on how to gain the skills and experience required to achieve career goals.

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EAB

JULY 17, 2023

Factors Contributing to Move-In Melt Based on our last year’s data, we saw move-in melt primarily happening in two student groups: international students and students without financial aid packages where the enrollment team believes they may be eligible for need-based aid.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

News integrates academic quality after calculating actual cost less financial aid. Of the 2022-23 full-time undergraduates who received need-based aid, the percentage of them who received a grant or scholarship, which is aid that doesn’t need to be repaid. Academic quality (overall score in the U.S. Weight = 20% 4.

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College Planners of America

MARCH 26, 2024

News integrates academic quality after calculating actual cost less financial aid. Of the 2022-23 full-time undergraduates who received need-based aid, the percentage of them who received a grant or scholarship, which is aid that doesn’t need to be repaid. Academic quality (overall score in the U.S. Weight = 20% 4.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

As experienced McNair program directors – Miroslava as the faculty director and Yvette as a former associate director – we understand the daunting task of unmasking the ‘hidden curriculum’ of successfully applying to graduate school. Plan, seek financial aid options and ensure a good fit with prospective programs.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As covered in Inside Higher Ed : “One particularly troubling enrollment trend exacerbated by the pandemic … is the decline of underrepresented groups—specifically Black, first-generation and low-income students. In short, money is important—but making sure students know there’s money is equally important. [The

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level. On this infographic, include the distribution of donors and participation levels from faculty and alumni. Show Gratitude.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 12, 2024

Burns prefers sharing the UIA’s vision and work rather than her personal journey, she explained how her experiences helped inform the Alliance’s goals: “A lot of first-generation and low-income students get bad advice. It's not that people are lazy, don't care, or don't want to help students.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 26, 2023

When it's time for a student to graduate, the student has to tell them. Higher ed in this country was historically designed around the faculty, because that was our intellectual capital at the time." What types of students dropped out? In many institutions, it's a low-income student.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 13, 2024

Burns prefers sharing the UIA’s vision and work rather than her personal journey, she explained how her experiences helped inform the Alliance’s goals: “My experience in higher ed as a student was very telling about what has to change. It's not that people are lazy, don't care, or don't want to help students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 15, 2024

In California, where affirmative action has been banned since 1996, the state university system (UC) began to focus on increasing socioeconomic diversity, introducing policies that connected more directly with low-income students and those from lower-performing schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Republicans and some Democrats aren’t happy with campus protests about the Israel/Hamas war, and many Democratic-leaning faculty don’t feel comfortable speaking up on issues if they work for red-state public universities,” says Kelchen. Bonner has his own book series with Routledge, titled Diverse Faculty in the Academy.

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COE

MAY 31, 2024

Wolanin established the program in memory of Dr. Wolanin, who championed student financial aid and college access. Wolanin was a faculty mentor of Stoner’s at the University of Wisconsin, and Stoner has been involved in supporting all five cycles of the internship program thus far. COE and the family of Thomas R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

During his two decades of leadership, Casteen oversaw significant increases in the enrollment of women, international students, and students from underrepresented minority groups.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Experts urge higher education leaders, faculty, and staff, to brace themselves with community while having hard conversations about their purpose and place in society and to decide where they stand on issues of shared governance. Students and families experienced a lot of anxiety around how to afford college,” says Gasman.

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