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Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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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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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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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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JULY 11, 2024

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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JANUARY 12, 2024

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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MAY 7, 2024

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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million grant through the Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship Program from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The Noyce grant is a catalyst for transformative change that will allow Lenoir-Rhyne to invest in preparing the highest caliber STEM teachers who will shape the future of innovation through their students.”

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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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MAY 15, 2024

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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AUGUST 8, 2023

Land-grant universities (LGUs) that are historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are significantly underfunded compared to predominantly white LGUs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP). This match often comes from state appropriations.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

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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OCTOBER 2, 2024

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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NOVEMBER 19, 2023

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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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 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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million Acceleration Grant from the National Institute for Student Success. Its grant includes funding to support partnerships with Morgan State, North Carolina Central University, and Kennesaw State University over the next three years to implement recommendations with formal coaching support.

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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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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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Notably, the college is using a recent $231,000 grant from the U.S. Kate Richmond and community engagement librarian Jess Denke, seeks to leverage education as a tool to end mass incarceration in part by bringing together traditionally enrolled Muhlenberg students and incarcerated individuals as classmates in a semester-long college course.

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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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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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The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and Temple University have released a guide for higher ed institutions on how to implement completion grants for their students. Dr. Christel Perkins Completion grants are funds given to students who need them to finish out their degree or academic journey.

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Clatsop Community College will become the first higher education institution within the traditional homelands of the Chinook Indian Nation to grant free tuition to tribal members, The Oregonian reported. “By

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An additional 1,600-1,700 students at Emory University received grants and scholarships instead of loans in their financial aid packages this fall, the Atlanta-based institution announced recently, more than doubling the number of undergraduates expected to finish school with limited or no debt.

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Marjorie Hass A $180,000 grant from the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations to the Council of Independent Colleges is expected to help expand open civil discourse and free expression on campuses. “In

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A&T) will use a $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to implement a program to increase STEM graduate students from underrepresented populations, particularly Ph.Ds. The two-year, $1,075,000 grant will go toward the Preparing Future Minority Ph.D. Researcher (PFMPR) Bridge to the Doctorate (BD) program.

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AUGUST 28, 2024

Federal Student Aid has uncovered a technological problem where schools are receiving a Pell Grant rejection code from COD despite the student being eligible according to FPS, the individual ISIR, and the FPP.

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Georgette “Gigi” Dixon The grant gives scholarships and emergency student aid for students, funding for UNCF’s Empower Me Tour program, and support for the future HBCU Innovation Summit and Student Leadership Conference.

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million grant for former Holy Family University and other Pennsylvania undergrads who were near degree completion but withdrew before obtaining diplomas or certificates. Holy Family University is partnering with the Bucks County Workforce Development Board in Pennsylvania on a $1.3 Dr. Anne M. Prisco, president of Holy Family.

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Texas A&M University-San Antonio has received a $3 million grant to address economic issues and expand technology access for its student population. Texas A&M University-San Antonio The money – in the form of a “Caminos Hacia el Éxito” (Pathways to Success) grant from the U.S.

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million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs. Dr. Yuliang Zheng The Scholarship for Service grant renewal – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – seeks to help fill the growing need for a national cybersecurity workforce prepared to deal with artificial intelligence and machine learning.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

FSA has released additional guidance for when and how financial aid offices should reconcile their institution’s federal Pell Grant funding each year; including the the process for internal as well as external reconciliations.

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Faculty from the University of Kentucky (UK), Vanderbilt University, and University of North Carolina Greensboro have received a $2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to support underrepresented minority faculty at predominantly white institutions (PWIs).

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Philander Smith College (PSC) will become a graduate degree-granting school after its Master of Business Administration (MBA) program was approved by the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) in November 2022. Dr. Roderick L.

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College Aid Services

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Federal Student Aid has provided additional guidance for institutions who are closing out their TEACH Grant programs for 2023-2024 academic year.

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Jordan gave students at three historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) paid lunches and tuition grants ahead of the film release for “Creed III,” Black Enterprise reported. Actor Michael B. Jordan The schools were Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Clark Atlanta University (CAU). Jordan also spoke at a Q&A session. “I

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