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Over 100 Organizations Urge Congress to Reverse Federal Education Grant Cancellations

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Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis.

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AERA Names Dr. Tabbye Chavous as New Executive Director

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Levine who has led the organization since 2002. The leadership change comes at a critical moment for educational research in the United States, with the organization citing "challenges" and "threats" to scholarship and knowledge production. The organization is meeting later this month in Denver.

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TheDream.US Celebrates a Decade of Transforming Immigrant Students' Lives

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Since its founding in 2014, the organization has provided more than 11,000 college scholarships to undocumented students attending nearly 80 partner colleges in 20 states and Washington, D.C. launched, most scholarship recipients had protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. TheDream.US

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Olin College President Steps Down Amid Financial Strain, Latest in String of Higher Ed Leadership Exits

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By 2026, merit scholarships will be reduced to $10,000 annually, a move aimed at ensuring long-term sustainability. These scholarship reductions have drawn concern from ABET, the college's accrediting organization.

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San Diego Foundation Commits $4M to Help Underserved Students Reach College

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Two major donations bolster the initiative: an anonymous $1 million gift and a $500,000 matching gift from the Barbara Monroe Scholarship Fund. The organization focuses on advancing racial and social justice, fostering equity of opportunity, building resilient communities, and delivering world-class philanthropy.

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HBCU Leaders Unite to Address Threats to Black Education

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You have to be equally outraged by the racism that poisons campus culture and the racism that shows up in how we exclude Black stories, scholarship, and success from the academy." "You cannot be selectively horrified," Harper told attendees. Attorney Raymond C. We are not simply preparing students to succeed in systems as they are, he said.

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Lacking Big Endowment, Prestigious Mitchell Scholarship Paused

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Mitchell Scholarship Program due to a lack in commitments from big donors, the nonprofit, nonpartisan organization said in a news release Wednesday. The US-Ireland Alliance is pausing its long-running George J.