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Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. Everyone at PWNA is sincerely grateful for this recent funding from Synchrony.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. In 2021, we published our Completion Grants Playbook , and our CEO Bridget Burns joined the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor Ian Wilhelm to co-host this virtual conversation about helping under-resourced students complete their degrees.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants.

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PSLF Could Soon Include All Early Childhood Education Workers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When the state of Illinois enacted the Early Childhood Access Consortium for Equity Scholarship (ECACE) Program, which funded ECE workers’ pursuit of credentials or degrees in their field, Meeker said students, particularly students of color, came flooding back to their institution. They experienced 300% influx.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. Since 2019, Moore Wealth has gifted over $30,000 in scholarships. She has partnered with FOSSI, or the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative, to give financial literacy workshops to FOSSI scholars.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The focus on English skills needed in an academic setting and tailored support services through the Academic Literacy & Language (ALL) Center have proven beneficial. Project upGRADS, which is funded by a federal grant, aims to improve access to and success in graduate education. GPA and a persistence rate of 94.4%.

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