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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It has already made history, with an HBCU graduate as the first presidential nominee of either of the two major parties. Colleges and universities use endowments to support several priorities, such as scholarships, upgraded facilities and faculty hiring. Yet each of us has the power to shape events in real time.

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Review of Peter Burke's "Ignorance: A Global History"

Inside Higher Ed

Column: Intellectual Affairs Three years ago Peter Burke published The Polymath ( Yale University Press ), an illustrated history of what are usually called Renaissance men or women. His new book, Ignorance: A Global History ( Yale University Press ), pivots to the complete antithesis of “inquisitive appetite.”

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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“But as much as I am a higher ed scholar, I’m a Jotería scholar-activist because my academic upbringing was really informed by my lived experiences as a first-generation academic, Joto, and Latinx in higher ed.” and Jorge Estrada, writing in the Global Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History (2019).

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. The scholarships are expected to cost between $5 million and $6 million in total, to be funded through private philanthropy, according to a university spokesperson. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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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. While eight in 10 parents wanted to remain informed about cost, two-thirds were also looking for information about academics.

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More Indian universities accept SAT as College Board expands

The PIE News

The program provides lower-income students from India options through which they can save money as they plan for university, which includes a 90% discount on SAT registration fees and scholarships at participating institutions. But as the world becomes more digitally connected, it becomes much easier to transmit information in real time.

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Yale Pledges $10M Toward HBCU Partnerships, Following Slavery Apology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology. Esdaile said the book did not include information about the university’s historical ties to eugenics and further criticized whether $10 million for student to return to Yale would help people of color.