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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Moses, who served as her faculty adviser and co-chair of her dissertation committee. The other, she continues, has to do with the unilateral decision-making being done on what students can learn about their culture, history, and identity. López is a scholar who brings people together, according to Dr. Michele S.

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NCAA eliminates standardized testing requirement for student-athletes

University Business

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the latest entity to dismiss standardized testing as a core requirement for student-athletic scholarships. Division III schools do not offer athletic scholarships, so they utilize a different method of granting scholarships.

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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the most common mistakes that institutions make in their efforts to retain students is an overemphasis on tuition scholarships. Scholarships without question assist with financial barriers, but they cannot unilaterally sustain a student's journey through higher education. This is how we can start keeping our students.

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College search: What you need to know about parents’ roles

University Business

Perhaps not surprisingly, parents identified cost as their top college concern, followed closely by two other financial matters: finding scholarships and compiling debt. Colleges and universities can help parents navigate higher ed finances with “early and direct communication” about tuition, fees and housing, the report advises.

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Cultivating a Culture of ‘Servingness:’ Institutional Considerations for Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For instance, partnerships with local community organizations can provide leadership development, internships, and scholarships tailored to Latine learners, while fostering a connection to space and place and bolstering a learner’s sense of belonging. This includes integrating Latine epistemologies into teaching and advising practices.

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Juneteenth, Higher Education, and Advancing Educational Equity

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Juneteenth, celebrated annually on June 19th, marks a pivotal moment in American history—the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were informed of their freedom, years after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed. This acknowledgment is crucial for fostering understanding, healing, and progress.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s scholarship in a different form.” Gray says he felt pressure to produce another article when a friend came to him and said that the idea was not done because the scholarship was just one leg of the relay. His friend advised him to show people what “Black and belonging” looked like.