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Morehouse students protesting reduced scholarship dollars

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A group of students at Morehouse College who recently learned they would not be getting scholarship funds they expected and believed they were entitled to receive are demanding change and clarity about the institution’s scholarship policies. Ayden Clark-Veal is one of those students.

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UNCF’s UNITE Summit Convenes HBCU Leaders in Atlanta

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over 1,000 HBCU college administrators, including 40 presidents of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), assembled in Atlanta this week to kick off the United Negro College Fund’s 2nd annual UNITE Summit for Black Educators.

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St. Francis College Cuts Athletics

Inside Higher Ed

Francis College Board of Trustees, said in a statement. Francis College will continue to honor current athletic scholarships. The 164-year-old college, which offers 21 varsity programs across 10 different NCAA sports, has an especially long history in college basketball, dating back to 1901. Hide by line?:

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Julian Vasquez Heilig Lori Gottschling For Vasquez Heilig—a prominent public policy researcher who has carved out a national reputation both in and outside academic circles for his scholarship on equity and innovation—the pendulum at WMU is swinging in the right direction.

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Stanford hikes tuition by 7%. Will other institutions follow?

Inside Higher Ed

The Stanford Breakdown A university spokesperson noted by email that “Stanford has for many years committed to providing sufficient scholarship support so that parents with annual incomes below a certain threshold, and assets typical of that income level, are not expected to contribute toward tuition, room, or board.

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Gallup poll shows discrepancy between higher ed and the public’s view on affirmative action

University Business

Their previous polling showed that Americans are highly supportive of merit-based scholarships and less interested in those that take into account students’ racial or ethnic backgrounds. “The ruling, which the public views favorably and aligns with prior views on using race as a factor in college admissions, is now settled law.

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A pathway to graduate school for Latinx students

Inside Higher Ed

Our scholarship is strong when it is motivated by the real issues that our communities are struggling with and graduate studies can help prepare us to make meaningful contributions to this work. What should college administrators do to dismantle them? Also, doing that work can and should be done in connection with community.