Academia Empower Scholarship 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2024
It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. Our voices not only tell untold stories but demand new ways of thinking.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
Unquestionably, the past 40 years have brought many steps forward in terms of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer rights, visibility, and consciousness, but in academia it is still a work in progress. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6%
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SRHE
MARCH 6, 2023
It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership. Nevertheless, the questioning of one’s place (am I right to be here?);
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 15, 2024
This is not just a matter of visibility or the fairness of representation…but it’s also about the diversity of experiences that people bring both into academia and into the professional world,” says project director Dr. Volker Janssen. Also, advanced degrees are increasingly important for lifetime career advancement.” Immokalee, FL) Noemi Y.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. These initiatives reinforce our commitment to creating a supportive environment where our students know they are valued, recognized and empowered to achieve their dreams.” In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%
Inside Higher Ed
FEBRUARY 17, 2023
They empowered my hope, and I became the first in my family to earn a bachelor’s degree. Our Pillars Scholars program supports first-year African American students, including by providing scholarships and opportunities to engage in community-based, social justice opportunities. She and my friends pushed me to try again.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 6, 2023
It was empowering,” he said. And it wasn’t that we were fighting society or academia. How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? They were interweaving cultural identity with the journeys people were on.” There was a hole in my heart, and I didn’t know what it was.
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