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Vanderbilt University Expands Popular Financial Aid Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Daniel Diermeier, the university's chancellor, announced the university’s commitment to offering full-tuition scholarships to admitted students of families whose annual income is $150,000 or less. “We Christiansen, vice provost for university enrollment affairs and dean of admissions and financial aid.

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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He served as associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. He also performed the world’s first successful implantation of an automatic heart defibrillator in 1980; founded the annual Johns Hopkins Martin Luther King Jr.

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Diverse Students Need Diverse Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Former collegiate athlete Yusuf Sabree was a standout student-athlete who currently holds the position of district dean of student services at Wayne County (Mich.) Sabree discovered that huge educational gaps existed in transfer rates for this population at community colleges across the nation (Harper, 2009). Community College.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jackson was a 2009 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin Award but was recognized at this year’s American Council on Education (ACE) annual meeting in Washington, D.C. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs.

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C2YC Past Award Recipients

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Dean, Richard Bland College 2009 – Nancy W. Kelsay, Moraine Valley Community College 2012 – Darl Drummond, College of Lake County 2011 – Deborah Casey-Powell, Green River Community College 2010 – Randy L.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen.

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Why production cost and resentment is rising (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Through the 1960s, we explain, almost all the grant aid awarded to students comprised scholarships and fellowships funded by colleges' revenue from gifts, grants, or endowments. Directors, deans, vice-presidents and their assistants multiply. Colleges' tuition revenue virtually equaled their listed tuition through the 1960s.