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is providing grants to its chapters in support of voter education, registration, and mobilization efforts for the 2024 U. The micro-grant application window opens Aug. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., election cycle. Lonzer, III, general president of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., The ‘D9 is Stronger Together’.” 13 and closes Aug.

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Responding to a problem To help address these issues, the National Science Foundation has created the ADVANCE Adaptation track grants, which offer schools millions of dollars to implement tested programs to increase the representation of women in academic science and engineering careers. These are not programs that work right away.

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The University of Houston has received two new grants designed to address barriers that prevent low-income and underrepresented students from pursuing STEM education. million collaborative grant from the NSF will support a new research focus for the St. and Christopher Wright of Drexel University.

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million grant from the National Institutes of Health’s National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. Wilson The grant will expand ongoing health research at the university’s Research Centers in Minority Institutions Center for Urban Health Disparities Research and Innovation. Dr. David K.

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The foundation will distribute $935,000 in grants to 10 local nonprofits in San Diego providing services including tutoring, counseling, and college application assistance. Founded in 1975, SDF has granted $1.8 Recipients include A Step Beyond, Barrio Logan College Institute, and First Gen Scholars, each receiving $125,000 annually.

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The NCAA has awarded Division I Accelerating Academic Success Program grants to 17 schools for the 2024-25 academic year. The grants total over $1.5 million and are used to boost student-athlete academic achievement. Division I student-athletes are graduating at record rates, according to 2023 Graduation Success Rate data.

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has awarded a $100 million unrestricted grant to support the United Negro College Fund’s capital campaign. The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L. The Lilly Endowment Inc. United Negro College Fund Inc.

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Department of Education has awarded more than $40 million in grant funding to help improve completion rates for underserved students. These awards will not only help find new ways to help students graduate; they will help change expectations.”

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million grant to NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences (DEEGS) , as part of the more than $7 million shared among the universities, each attracting different student bodies. Akinleye “This grant presents a great opportunity for the DEEGS,” said Chancellor Dr. Johnson O. Dr. Johnson O.

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The recent cancel lation of critical grants and contracts at the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) jeopardizes the future of congressionally mandated and statistically robust surveys on postsecondary education experiences and outcomes. Without NPSAS, these affordability gaps would remain hidden.

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Appalachian State University's College Access Partnerships in the Reich College of Education has been awarded a $35 million grant as part of the U.S. Dr. Heather Norris App State is one of 18 institutions nationwide this year to be awarded a grant through GEAR UP grant, a federally funded college access program.

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million grant from T.D. million grant will lay the groundwork for an innovative mixed-use development that not only provides essential services and resources but also strengthens the college’s long-term vision for community impact. Thanks to a $1.5 PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation.

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million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. Radford received its hoped-for amount in the grant, said Trageser, as they carefully calculated what it would cost to hire and keep their student support advocates.

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These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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Montana State University President Waded Cruzado has been named the next president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), marking a Dr. Waded Cruzado historic appointment as she becomes the first Latina to lead the organization.

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Their research supports the creation of a wealth-based Pell Grant to supplement the traditional Pell Grant, which offers financial support to students from low-income backgrounds. The policy incorporates information already collected in the FAFSA form, which is used to distribute Pell Grants. This is one answer.”

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The Ellucian Foundation will award grants to 25 two-year colleges to help support students facing economic challenges. Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food.

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million, five-year grant from the National Science Foundation’s Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation (LSAMP) Program. The multifaceted goal of the grant is to support underrepresented minority students in STEM,” said Lentini. Molloy University has received a $3.5 It is good for the region.”

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Among the topics addressed in the online survey are the impact the FAFSA delays had on the fall 2024 class, financial aid distribution, and the number of students receiving a Pell Grant award. The repercussions from this rollout will be felt – by students, families, and institutions – for years.”

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Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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The National Clearinghouse data already shows that at four-year colleges with high shares of Pell Grant recipients, freshman enrollment is declining by more than 10 percent. Double the Pell Grant and Tie It to Inflation : Policymakers should not only double the Pell Grant but tie it to inflation so that it maintains its purchasing power.

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Gavin Newsom has signed a bill that gives community college students transferring to HBCUs a one-time grant of up to $5,000. California Gov. Gavin Newsom Patrick T.

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Mark Becker plans to leave his role as president of the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) at the end of the year. “I I carry the ethos of the Morrill Land-Grant Acts in my veins, and I believe with the firmest of convictions that APLU and our members are vitally important to the future of our nation.”

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Perhaps most significantly, Latino students are more than twice as likely to receive grants (67%) than take out loans (27%), indicating a strong preference for aid that doesn't require repayment. For state grants, 16% of Latino students received need-based grants compared to only 2% who received merit-only grants.

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That’s the findings from a new Privacy Rights Clearinghouse report, funded by a Michelson 20MM grant. College students are paying twice for their education: once in tuition and again with their privacy. The report uncovers “troubling gaps in data privacy for students using digital learning tools in higher education.”

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Irene Mulvey The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has received a grant of over $1.5 The organization announced receipt of the grant Feb. million from the Mellon Foundation to examine and confront the surge of political and ideological hostilities against higher education.

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The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a grant of $116.2 million to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, to create the Cohen Career Collective, a state-of-the-art workforce training center.

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The CCAMPIS program allows colleges to use grant funding to subsidize child care costs for Pell Grant-eligible students, support campus-based or community-based child care programs, provide before or after-school services, or offer student support like financial and career counseling.

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Additionally, each student covered under the expanded free tuition policy will receive a $2,000 start-up grant in their first year to help with move-in costs and other expenses related to transitioning to college and a $2,000 launch grant during their junior year to help support their transition post-graduation.

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million grant through the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. “We Fairfield University's Marion Peckham Egan School of Nursing and Health Studies has received a $2.59 We are thrilled to be selected for this funding,” said Dr. Kathryn E. Dr. Kathryn E.

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While at the helm of Clinton College, he has helped the institution secure millions of dollars in grants for new programming and presided over the transition of the school from a a two-year school to a four- year college. “Dr. Both institutions are historically Black colleges and universities.

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Researchers at the University at Buffalo have been awarded a $10 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences to establish the Center for Early Literacy and Responsible AI (CELaRAI).

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There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. The grant is a California Student Aid Commission program.”

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I think the most important piece to this was we didnt ask for the planning grant, remembers Curry. We went directly for the project funding grant. Once Compton College gathered all of the data and support they needed, college leaders submitted a proposal. Curry, however, was intentional about the request.

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million National Institutes of Health grant has been awarded to researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and the Instituto Nacional de Salud Pública in Mexico to explore the link between infertility and long-term health issues among Hispanic women of Mexican heritage.

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At UMass, Wolff's most significant institutional contribution was the creation of "Scholars of the Twenty-First Century," a groundbreaking mentoring program for underrepresented undergraduate students that he established through external grant funding.

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Chancellor Emeritus at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, was honored with the Peter McPherson Lifetime Achievement Award last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) in Orlando, Florida. Martin, Sr.,

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