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Historic $100M Grant to UNCF Boosts HBCU Endowments, Financial Stability

Insight Into Diversity

marking the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history. UNCF plans to raise $185 million total to support the campaign, allocating $5 million to each of its member institutions. The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) recently received a $100 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., million to $25.9

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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. This approach often neglects to allocate the right resources and necessary strategic planning toward addressing the support needs of diverse student populations.

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Juneteenth, Higher Education, and Advancing Educational Equity

WCET Frontiers

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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Pell Grant Increase Will Help Low-Income Students, But More is Needed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972. Dr. Linda Oubré, president of Whittier College in California. During COVID-19, Whittier was able to direct federal support to the students.

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Differences aside, why are we all so similar? By Natalie Day, Johnny Rich & Chris Husbands

HEPI

We have been here before There is history here: the United Kingdom has tried time and again to bring innovation into higher education, but has never really succeeded – or, more accurately, it has repeatedly launched innovations only to watch them drift back towards the norm. They have real world impacts.

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Why we need better data on faculty diversity (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

A diverse faculty brings diverse perspectives, and these diverse perspectives enhance teaching and advising, research and scholarship, clinical practice, and engagement with the community and world. An excellent and diverse faculty is vital to individual colleges and universities and to our communities, states, nation and globe.

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What is a ‘research culture’?

SRHE

The award of doctorates in Divinity had ceased to depend on advanced scholarship, and had often became more or less honorific as new Bishops began to be granted an automatic Doctorate of Divinity. Teaching-only’, ‘Teaching and Scholarship’ and ‘Teaching-focussed’ academic jobs have become increasingly common.