IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 4, 2025

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. Demographic information about the recipients was not available.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Tina Smith, D-Minn, and Chuck Grassley R-Iowa, have reintroduced three bills to help students and families make informed decisions about borrowing for college. Tina Smith The bills aim to make sure that students are informed and educated about college search and selection, loans, and financial aid. My bipartisan bills with Sens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although they still utilize grades, these initiatives grant high school students access to real college courses, helping them build early success and experience in higher education. Dual enrollment programs present another compelling solution. Rather than just assessing readiness, these programs help ensure it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The report suggests that Congress could potentially impose additional endowment taxes on universities that maintain legacy preferences while offering reduced penalties to institutions that increase enrollment of Pell Grant recipients, community college transfers, and veterans.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

On July 1 st , incarcerated Americans will re-gain access to Pell grants for the first time in nearly 30 years. These students are therefore not eligible for Pell grants, making it exceedingly difficult for them to access higher education. The SBPC is requesting either the information or an explanation of why they can’t have it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

The grant – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – is a first-of-its-kind awarded to a historically Black college or university (HBCU) through the NSF Decision, Risk and Management Sciences , Office of Integrative Activities , and HBCU Excellence in Research (EiR) integrated programs, for this type of research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

She had been waiting outside the door before the office opened, anxiously checking her phone for updates on whether her son was going to be granted a hearing date to commute his sentence. For more information on supporting formerly incarcerated students directly, please see the link to a recently published Diverse article.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She served as principal investigator on the National Science Foundation grant focused on Evidence-Informed Practices to Improve Climate (Project EPIC) to transform departmental cultures within STEM disciplines to improve the retention and advancement of women, particularly women of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

According to the report, the HEERF funding model was groundbreaking in three key ways: it represented an unprecedented federal investment in community colleges, it based allocations partially on Pell Grant recipients, and it included special funding for institutions serving students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The grant – from the California Department of Health Care Access and Information (HCAI) and to be distributed over five years – will help fund the “UC San Diego Health Career Experience,” an annual program meant to educate and train students interested in nursing and allied health professions. UC San Diego Health has received $2.2

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

It’s a gap we have to fill for people when we come to these types of gatherings so that they can have the information that they need and so that they can be equipped to go forward as well.” People will travel to hear solutions and then work to implement solutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Jericho Brown, a poetry professor at Emory University, are among the academicians who were awarded a “genius grant” by The John D. Dr. Jericho Brown The 22 fellows will each receive a grant of $800,000 over five years to spend however they want. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation earlier this week.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2025

The university won a series of multimillion-dollar federal grants for projects that span thesocial as well as physical sciences. That information helped guide Morgan States spending priorities. A progress report for 2018-2023 and other universitysources lists a series of research feats at MorganState.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

Black law students receive the highest average total aid packages at $54,200, but 87% of this amount comes in the form of federal loans rather than grants. In comparison, white students receive aid packages averaging $39,400, with 55% in federal loans and 36% in institutional grants. Department of Education, and U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2025

We must leverage todays information cycles toeducate, not manipulate, Alford said. The cancellation of Pell Grants and threats to federal funding for universities that support DEI policies dont just impact Black communitiesthey hurt poor and working-class white students too.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

MARCH 3, 2025

Heres a few key terms that you need to know when it comes to loans, grants, and work-study! Grants: Grants are probably the most exciting part of your financial aid package because they dont have to be paid back! If you qualify for a Pell Grant, you could receive a substantial amount of aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2024

He said Murphy championed the Community College Opportunity Grant program, which has helped lower-income students go to community college for free or at reduced costs. He said cuts could force colleges to consider tuition increases, cutting programs and services to students, or cutting workforce-informed academic programs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular. Amid news that the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

This work will provide a comprehensive analysis that will inform future campus programs and services, and influence local, state, and federal funding structures to benefit the 10 million students served each year at the nation’s community colleges.” Bumphus, president and CEO of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has awarded a $1 million grant to Pitt Community College to help boost college enrollment and completion rates among students in rural areas. million to 22 of the nation’s higher education institutions through its Rural Postsecondary & Economic Development (RPED) Grant Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 31, 2024

Our primary goals are to empower students and integrate trauma-informed community lawyering into their practice," said Feldman, an attorney at the center and instructor for the Asylum Law Clinic. "By

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 31, 2019

Unfortunately, recent research suggests that many students are not provided clear, concise, and accurate information they need to fully understand the financial implications of the choices they have made. In the same report, TICAS found that only 10 of 150 letters [1] met all three criteria. Leaders in Congress have taken note.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. Rhodes College The three-year grant will provide funding for the research and documentation of Memphians stories who are often absent from the narratives about the city.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Another unsettling finding is that, while 2024 CCSSE respondents who are Pell Grant recipients reported intent to transfer at roughly the same rates as non-Pell Grant recipients, the Tracking Transfer report shows that only 11% of low-income students who started at a community college earned a bachelor’s degree in six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Dr. Ted Mitchell Higher ed institutions often use different terminology and guidelines when providing financial aid information. The task force will be chaired by Peter McPherson, president emeritus of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2022

“Award letters have really not done a great job of distinguishing between grants and loans, sometimes intentionally.” 22% don’t provide any information on college costs at all in their financial aid offers. 22% don’t provide any information on college costs at all in their financial aid offers. The margin of error was +/- 7%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2024

This grant program seeks to even the playing field by upgrading student newsrooms and paying stipends for student journalists,” said Hannah-Jones, who serves as Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at Howard’s Cathy Hughes School of Communications. Newsrooms can apply to renew the funding for the contributing writers for up to five years. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

I like to run a very transparent college where everyone is always informed — not just faculty, but also our classified professionals,” she says. “I GWC has seen a significant increase in success rates, particularly after awarding 326 basic needs small grants totaling $264,211 to students during the spring semester. versus 2.49.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

We applied for a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue some of the work that we had started investing in during the pandemic, but to do that on a more holistic level, and to identify root causes for what was contributing to the underfunding, and then, more importantly, what could be done to address it,” said Watson Spiva.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 3, 2024

For years, advocates for higher education in prison programs worked to see Pell Grants reintroduced for incarcerated individuals. With the reinstatement of Pell Grant funding, the number of college students and college graduates experiencing reentry will continue to grow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 2, 2023

However, there has been scant information on the specific impacts at a national level. Lower SAI numbers will lead to a greater number of students being eligible for Pell Grants. If you’re eligible for a full Pell Grant, that will cover, in the majority of the states in the country, your tuition at a local community college,” she said.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 8, 2024

The project is funded by grants from Ascendium Education Group, College Futures Foundation, and Trellis Foundation and is a result of more than two years of discovery and design work among 26 community colleges, four-year institutions, and regional systems.

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