University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. Their family foundation disbursed more than $132 million in 2021 and 2022, The Observer reports. The post $100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. The 6888th – the only all-female unit in Army history – was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in March 2022. A Tarleton State University doctoral student and U.S. Army veteran Nicole Burkett has recently been named the inaugural recipient of the U.S.

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Insight Into Diversity

APRIL 16, 2024

Initially committed to the University of Arkansas on a full scholarship, she redirected her path to Fisk University after gymnastics coach Corrine Tarver — the first Black gymnast to win the NCAA all-around title — asked if she wanted to make history by helping her build an elite HBCU program. It really was.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

On Wednesday, Charles Robinson was named chancellor of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, making history for the flagship campus for appointing its first Black leader. — University of Arkansas (@UArkansas) November 16, 2022.

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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. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 28, 2022

” In recent years, Brown University Library has expanded its innovation in digital scholarship by pushing beyond the boundaries of the traditional printed monograph. Funding organizations such as the Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, among others, have made much of this innovative scholarship possible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Council raises funds and provides scholarships to Latinx students, and, on September 19, as part of NJIT’s kickoff for Hispanic Heritage Month, the Council, along with NJIT president Dr. Teik C. Since 2022, Dr. David E. These are opportunities to celebrate the rich history, culture and the people from underrepresented communities.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

The hip-hop impresario first pledged the gift while receiving a lifetime achievement award at the 2022 BET Awards. He had previously given $1 million to Howard in 2016 to establish a scholarship fund and had said that he would donate a further $1 million to the school in the same acceptance speech.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Whether rebounding from a sluggish 2022 or rivaling pre-pandemic enrollment numbers, colleges and universities embraced a variety of initiatives to win new students and maintain a healthy cohort. While the University of North Carolina Greensboro’s enrollment overall is down from Fall 2022, it has seen an 11.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Dr. Rebecca Blank Blank stepped down from the role in 2022 to become the first female president of Northwestern University, was one of the longest-serving chancellors in recent UWM history, having led the school for almost 10 years. Blank Center for Campus History and a professorship in her honor. Rebecca Blank died Feb.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. This academic year, 575 students are being supported.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 27, 2023

Image: A program at the University of California, Irvine, ensures first-generation or underprivileged students are prepared for their lives after college, with a 100 percent graduation rate among its 630 scholars in the program’s 24-year history. The 2022–23 cohort has 83 students, 46 seniors and 37 juniors or super sophomores.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Since this aspect was implemented in 2016, completion of and compliance with training have increased from 65 percent to more than 90 percent in the 2021-2022 academic year, says Burnham-Williams. MUSC’s office of institutional advancement has been more intentional in seeking funding for DEI programs, projects, and scholarships for students.

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Liaison International

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

As part of its strategy, Kalamazoo Valley wanted to promote the Michigan Reconnect initiative, a last-dollar scholarship program that provides tuition-free community college to adult residents of the state who do not yet hold an associate degree or higher academic credential.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Two recent books that have received widespread attention underscore a much broader emotional or affective turn in humanistic and social science scholarship. Instead, a growing body of scholarship views emotions not as reflexes, but as purposeful and at least partly culturally constructed. Products of history. Matter William M.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 3, 2022

A small college within a much larger institution, with its own facilities, faculty, course offerings, scholarship and grant programs and perks for honors students. I think the answer is yes and, as we will see, this builds on the history of university honors, which has radically reworked its model over the past century. Honors 4.0.

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ACPA

JANUARY 13, 2023

The 2015 competencies are : Personal and Ethical Foundations ; Values, Philosophy, and History ; Assessment, Evaluation, and Research ; Law, Policy, and Governance ; Organizational and Human Resources ; Leadership ; Social Justice and Inclusion ; Student Learning and Development ; Technology ; Advising and Supporting. and globally…” (p.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 29, 2022

He was a history Ph.D. I especially enjoyed my chance to work with the New-York Historical Society, and its exhibition on Slavery in New York Exhibition, its Dimenna Children’s History Museum, and its 17-minute orientation film. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 27, 2023

A 2022 report by the Kentucky Jewish Council details a variety of incidents, including threats to a synagogue and Jewish community center. There’s so much scholarship here and so many stories worth telling. Kentucky is no exception. " She also couldn’t decide on what aspects of the Holocaust to focus.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In the years since Leon and Rosenzweig’s volume was published, history museums and historic sites have undergone a reckoning of, yes, historic proportions. To attract broader audiences, many history museums embraced emerging technologies, introducing orientation films, dramatic lighting, simulations and interactives.

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ACPA

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Nominations must be received by Thursday, December 1, 2022, to be considered. Research and Scholarship Award. For consideration, nominees must submit a one-page abstract of the research or scholarship. A complete nomination includes a letter of recommendation, resume, and the completed form below. Nomination Form: [link].

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. The total student loan debt reached $1.75

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

It also considered debates regarding critical development course content, rethinking possibilities for bridging counter-hegemonic development scholarship with practice-oriented approaches in a range of social contexts.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 17, 2023

In June 2022, HEPI and Taylor & Francis hosted a successful dinner discussion around open access and evidence-based based policymaking which produced a co-authored Policy Note , and webinar. The UN’s Higher Education Sustainability Initiative sees a clear link between research and scholarship and building a workforce for the future.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 31, 2022

Over the past 21 years, the Cooke Foundation’s Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship has supported hundreds of transfer students as they have thrived at these institutions—and we have supported thousands more through Community College Transfer Initiative grants to selective schools. Is this diversity newsletter?:

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Helix Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Bethune-Cookman University: Closing the GAP in Scholarship Assistance With a Spring Appeal Bethune-Cookman University’s rich history as a Historically Black College/University (HBCU) showcases its legacy of resilience and student-centered education.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 24, 2022

Institutional and non-institutional scholarships that require students to maintain a minimum grade point average. history survey course, plagiarism occurs with some frequency even though students know that every written assignment goes through a plagiarism detector. The pressure to enter high demand, highly competitive majors.

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University Business

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Dr. Sánchez previously served as the president of Rhode Island College (RIC) from 2016 to 2022 and is celebrated for his achievements in enhancing social mobility rankings, diversifying student bodies, modernizing academic facilities and fundraising—objectives in line with Manhattanville’s strategic priorities.

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SRHE

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

From Leonardo da Vinci (whose trans-disciplinary inventiveness was attributed to his ADHD) to bell hooks (whose professorial role drew on her activism and poetry practice), history has no lack of examples of how creative and neurodivergent processes have produced insights to catalyse social and culture change. Collage, Can-Do, Curiosity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 15, 2023

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. In a 2022 interview with ABC News, Jackson recalled, “At MIT, it wasn’t always friendly. regrettably, the award ceremony was cancelled in 2009.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It will take unconventional practices and policies to undo a history of harms and truly foster a society where all people can achieve their full health potential. For example, two undergraduate public health students have been researching reproductive and sexual health in Ghana throughout the fall 2022 semester.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 29, 2023

” In her 2022 study of the toll of structural racism and prejudice on African Americans’ physical and mental health, Linda Villarosa, a former executive editor at Essence magazine and a contributor on race, health, and inequality to The New York Times Magazine , shows that racial disparities in life expectancy cut across class lines.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 19, 2023

These histories of violence have attracted a recent surge of interest, shining a spotlight on how universities respond. This is sometimes but not always accompanied by material redistribution, through creating new faculty tenure lines or cluster hires , establishing student scholarships, or even offering free tuition.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Gallup’s State of Higher Education 2022 Report shows the alarming percentage of students who have considered stopping out due to emotional stress—a number that almost tripled from 2020 to 2021 for two-year students. December 19, 2022. December 14, 2022. December 8, 2022. December 2, 2022. October 24, 2022.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 30, 2022

His named perpetrators of shoddy thinking included many of the history profession’s most towering practitioners, including Henry Steele Commager, David Donald, Don E. Some of the fallacies that Fischer discusses are history-specific. Steven Mintz is professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

There is a whole history of disparity there, health disparities even prior to the pandemic. Lee says one of the department’s solutions for adapting to the pandemic was to provide technology scholarships that enable students to purchase tech items with which to do their research and assignments at home. program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

My history as a whole told me that I needed to be in a situation where, if I have the opportunity…to help other people realize their dreams without having to go through all that I went through to get there, then I needed to do that.”

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