Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

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). Christine Wang, a professor of learning and instruction in UB’s Graduate School of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a grant of $116.2 Comprehensive student support services will also be available, such as career advising, preparation for job interviews, job placement, childcare, and financial literacy training.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Registered A pprenticeships—programs that combine school instruction with paid on-the-job training, allowing students to “earn while they learn” — are critical on-ramps to good jobs. And thanks to a grant from Sound Transit, tuition, normally $5,000, is waived. The first cohort gra duated in fall 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The expansion was mostly supported through grant funding from the Mellon Foundation and the Ascendium Education Group, Burnett said. We don't know if it’s because they're bored or they're being instructed in a certain way,” she said. As it stands now, JSTOR – either in its offline or online form – is available in sites in all 50 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Teachers who have been hired to teach history and social studies in [high-poverty schools] may not have had much coursework in history, civics and media literacy themselves or training in how to teach these subjects,” Harris said.

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