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Ohio Wesleyan Graduate Makes $12 Million Commitment to Benefit First-Generation Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Thirty-eight percent of the Class of 2028 are first-generation college students. In addition to scholarship aid, Grissom’s estate gift will provide comprehensive support for first-generation students including room and board and other expenses such as laptops, transportation costs, and medical bills.

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Socrates in Space: University of Austin as a Model of America's Ivory Tower Future

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The founding 2024 class is expected to enroll 100 students, growing to 200 students in 2025 and 1,000 students in 2028. After the founding class, which will receive free tuition for four years, tuition is expected to be about $32,500 per year, with a number of students receiving scholarships.

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Required to Study Abroad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To note, the students in these semester-long programs are responsible for their flights and travel costs, but Goucher’s Office of Global Education takes such costs into account when divvying out scholarships, Hoose said in an email. The goal is to reach 15% by 2028, Devereaux said.

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2023-Become a Senior Scholar

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CALL FOR NOMINATIONS AND APPLICATIONS ACPA SENIOR SCHOLARS PROGRAM 2023–2028. ACPA Senior Scholars advocate for the integration of scholarship into the practice of student affairs. ACPA Senior Scholars represent the best of engaged scholarship relevant to student affairs work in higher education. EXPECTATIONS OF DIPLOMATES.

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Why early decision can be a college access equalizer

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And just this year, close to 60% of Boston University class of 2028 applicants were admitted via early decision. These students have earned $184 million in grants and scholarships to 130 colleges and universities across the U.S. What is incredible is that one in three of these students did not borrow any loans to pay for college.

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Become a Senior Scholar

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The Senior Scholars Program provides scholars with a continuing opportunity to promote scholarship through the presentation of programs of interest to the profession at each national convention and to serve the association on projects related to their fields of interest. Scholars are senior members of the profession (i.e.,

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Are cannabis programs set to become higher education’s next darling?

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By 2028, others put the cannabis industry’s market cap at nearly $200 billion. Moreover, Medgar Evers is beginning to provide tuition-free associate and bachelor’s degrees in cannabis studies for qualifying students, and the University of Nevada just announced a scholarship opportunity for its four online certificate programs.