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How Higher Ed Can Help Underserved Communities Access Broadband

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Postsecondary education provides graduates with greater access to job opportunities and higher earning potential throughout their lifetimes. But higher education isn’t the only provider of communal uplift. Post-secondary institutions could be instrumental in helping to coordinate and implement varied strategies.

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UNCF Receives Largest Philanthropic Corporate Gift from Fidelity Investments for Scholarship Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a UNCF-HBCU president, I am confident that this program will have major impact on HBCUs and minority-serving institutions of higher education,” said Dr. George T. French, Jr., president of UNCF-member Clark Atlanta University.

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HACU and FBI Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Increase Collaboration and Promote FBI Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meanwhile, HACU will promote information about the FBI’s mission and careers and invite the organization to events such as public policy forums, lectures, presentations, and conferences. Milhoan, assistant director of the FBI’s Office of Public Affairs. “We The FBI will also participate in job fairs with HACU. “I

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Record bond measures, higher ed policy on states' ballots

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Arizona voters will decide next month whether to allow undocumented students in the state to receive in-state tuition—one of three statewide measures on the ballot this November related to higher education. Harnisch said Arizona’s Proposition 308 is “the marquee higher education ballot measure this year.”

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A good portion of those donations were given to various kinds of institutions of higher education, many serving students from underserved backgrounds. The scholarship program at Northeast has been in operation since fall 2021 as one of the 384 organizations to receive funding from Scott in December 2020.

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Communicating Effectively in a Presidential Search

Inside Higher Ed

Blog: Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education A presidential search and the launch of a new administration are among the highest-visibility occasions in the life of an institution. Unfortunately, communicating around a presidential search is something for which organizations are often underprepared.

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A free, online, global university seeks seal of approval

Inside Higher Ed

Image: When the Taliban banned women from pursuing higher education, they did not simultaneously extinguish half their citizens’ educational ambitions. The New England Commission of Higher Education] is getting more comfortable with pilots, for examples.”