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Over 100 Organizations Urge Congress to Reverse Federal Education Grant Cancellations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis.

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Scholars at AABHE Conference Discuss Strategic Responses to Anti-DEI Legislation

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Our dean is telling the faculty to be creative and to come up with other ways to shape it or frame it so that theyre not using the trigger words, because the trigger words, whether we like it or not, is whats causing grants to either be denied, applications to be pushed back and funding to not be released, the attendee said.

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

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Women have been making crucial contributions to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics since long before STEM was an educational buzzword. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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AAUP Receives Mellon Grant for Academic Freedom Center

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Irene Mulvey The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) has received a grant of over $1.5 The AAUP— a Washington, DC-based, nonprofit association of academic professionals led by Dr. Irene Mulvey, a professor of mathematics at Fairfield University — plans to establish the "Center for the Defense of Academic Freedom."

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Lenoir-Rhyne Receives $1.2M Grant to Promote STEM Pathways

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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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Dr. Emily Bouck, Michigan State University

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Emily Bouck is actively involved in grant writing and leads such funded programs. She is a professor and associate dean for research at Michigan State University, researching mathematics education for students with disabilities and those at-risk.

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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

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A lot of times, when students are going into mathematics, they are seeing the material for the first time and then tested on that material,” Roberson said. “If Almost all of the parents of the high schoolers later reported that their children earned A’s in their fall semester math course.

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