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‘Merit Scholarship’ or Enrollment Incentive?

Inside Higher Ed

Merit scholarships are widely seen as exactly what their name suggests: financial awards institutions dole out to deserving students based on proven academic achievement. Some say it’s an unacknowledged equity issue.

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Announcing Coursera’s 2024 Outstanding Partner Achievement Award Winners

Coursera blog

Career Transformation Award This award recognizes the partner whose course best achieves transformational career results for learners, as informed by Coursera’s Learner Outcomes Survey. Your creativity, perseverance, and passion continue to push the boundaries of what education can achieve. Watch the keynote.

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Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship: New, but Growing Rapidly

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students.

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Conservative Legal Group Challenges Graduate Scholarship

Insight Into Diversity

McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program, managed by the U.S. The post Conservative Legal Group Challenges Graduate Scholarship appeared first on Insight Into Diversity. Department of Education for a longstanding initiative that fosters higher education opportunities for underrepresented and low-income students. The Ronald E.

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NJIT Achieves HSI Status and Works to Increase Its Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The goal was to achieve these numbers by 2025, but NJIT hit its target by the spring of 2024. Jones explains that the office works with faculty to ensure they have the cultural capacity to build scholarship in the classroom that resonates with the students that NJIT serves. “We

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18 Students Honored and Given Scholarships at Annual ETS Reception

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eighteen students from across the nation were awarded scholarships by ETS at its annual scholarship reception on the ETS campus in Princeton, N.J. It is how we progress as a society,” said ETS CEO Amit Sevak, who presented the scholarships to the students. Recipients of the ETS-HBCU Presidential Scholarship.

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A Scholarship of the Underserved to Inspire Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. He also served as an assistant director of the National Black Male College Achievement Study, an assistant director of the Grad Prep Academy, and a doctoral research assistant to Dr. Shaun R.