Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

Since its inception 21 years ago, the Point Foundation has become the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ+ college students in the country. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the organization awarded scholarships to 98 students. At one time, the organization received over 1,500 applications for only 20 scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

The University of Texas at Austin's Texas Advance Commitment fully covers tuition for students with family incomes up to $65,000, while Miami Dade College provides "Last Mile Scholarships" for students who left with 13 or fewer credits remaining.

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University Business

APRIL 1, 2024

Nearly $376 million will be funneled into nonprofits, community colleges and universities to provide scholarships for migrant students and seasonal farmworkers and their children to pursue higher education or earn their GED, an alternative to a four-year high school diploma. Read more from the Oregon Capital Chronicle.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

But Worden, who has an intellectual disability, has limited higher ed options Maine, where few colleges and universities have what she needs: an Inclusive Postsecondary Education, or IPSE, program. So of course, she has her sights set on college. Advocates are hoping it gets another chance this year.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

And a state scholarship designed to change that is not working, The Anchorage Daily News reported. The Alaska Performance Scholarship was first established in 2011 to keep the best students in the state for college. There are three tiers to the scholarship, the highest of which is $4,755 per year. Hide by line?:

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Commonly marketed as a substantial opportunity offered by universities to diversify their campuses through providing scholarships, college athletics function as a problematic method of attempting to replicate the impact of race-conscious admissions due to the economic exploitation that athletes are subjected to.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

To refuse erasure and enact educational sovereignty in higher education, Tribal Nations chartered and developed Tribal Colleges and Universities, or TCUs, to serve the needs of their communities. that offer opportunities for postsecondary education at certificate, associate degree, bachelor’s degree, and master’s degree levels.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

She holds a PhD in curriculum and pedagogy and has extensive experience teaching in postsecondary and K–12 settings. Gurpreet’s scholarship centers on improving access to mathematics for students and teachers alike. She is a postsecondary educator and researcher, with experience teaching in K–12, university, and college settings.

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Insight Into Diversity

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The study, titled “An Assessment of Physician Assistant Student Diversity in the United States: A Snapshot for the Healthcare Workforce,” involved combing through data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System to examine the number and proportion of diverse graduates from 149 PA programs nationwide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 21, 2024

and Golden Door Scholars, two scholarship organizations helping undocumented students access, persist, and succeed in postsecondary education. The Golden Door offers undocumented students scholarships, counseling, and wrap-around services. Those are the findings from a new report and survey conducted by TheDream.US

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 13, 2024

Department of Education (ED) has proposed discontinuing the library component of the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS). In an unpopular move, the U.S. ED has faced significant opposition from various academic and library associations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Undergraduate students who stopped out—left postsecondary education for at least 18 months—have been returning at increasing rates. Smith University in North Carolina have hired “scholarship coordinator” staff that is focused on helping students find and secure scholarships and other funding.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

As a researcher and tenured associate professor in the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Education, Means’ scholarship “examines racial and class inequities in rural contexts, challenging monolithic perspectives that equate rurality to whiteness,” wrote Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., It’s all a team effort,” Means said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In school counseling and mental health counseling, counselor educators get extensive preparation in socio-emotional learning (SEL). This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Gifted and talented under-referrals and underrepresentation. internships).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

The research, published in the Journal of Diversity in Higher Education , focused on participants in the first such program, the Kalamazoo Promise. The study found that KPromise has many benefits. Students of all backgrounds were more likely to enroll, perform well, and persist in college. Byrd and his co-authors, Drs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

The struggle with the Black community is that young African American males are starting off with a short straw, as many of them come from low-income families, which limits their access to quality K-12 education, extracurricular activities and college preparatory resources. Not dropout rates.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 30, 2022

She holds a PhD in curriculum and pedagogy and has extensive experience teaching in postsecondary and K–12 settings. Gurpreet’s scholarship centers on improving access to mathematics for students and teachers alike. She is a postsecondary educator and researcher, with experience teaching in K–12, university, and college settings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

I believe it aligns with what our division [Workforce Credentialing and Community Impact] was brought into being to do, to reimagine how higher ed is serving the needs of the broader labor market in the New York area, and not always believing the traditional model of postsecondary education is the only pathway available,” said Amkraut.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

NEW YORK On the last day of the Student Leadership Network’s (SLN) Whole Girl Education National Conference: Closing the Gap, CEO Yolonda Marshall reminded attendees why they must continue to elevate and educate young women and gender expansive students: because the political and societal climate is dire. The progress is tangible.

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Higher Education Inquirer

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Since its inception in 2015, College Promise has been steadfast in its commitment to making postsecondary education, including career-technical colleges and apprenticeships, accessible, tuition-free, fees, and wraparound supports, and readily available to all.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The state has the highest rate of cancer incidence and mortality in the country, which is partially driven by Eastern Appalachia’s health, socioeconomic, and education disparities, the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has found. About 25% of UK students’ families earn $25,000 or less annually, data suggests.

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IHEP

AUGUST 16, 2023

Students with unmet need take out more loans, work more hours, face higher degrees of food and housing insecurity, and are at greater risk of forgoing higher education or leaving school without a credential. Each year, Pell Grants help approximately 6 million students from low-income backgrounds pursue a postsecondary education.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 16, 2022

million fewer students are pursuing postsecondary education today compared to just two years ago. We need to broaden access, leverage our industry and corporate partnerships to create scholarships and funding sources, and pursue entrepreneurial investments that seek to incubate alternative ventures.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

One of the most anticipated annual issues each January is the Emerging Scholars edition that features outstanding scholars of color breaking new ground in research, applying scholarship to public policy and grooming the next generation of leaders and professionals.

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University Business

JULY 13, 2023

When College Promise first set out to make postsecondary education as affordable and accessible as public high schools, it started with 53 programs. States and organizations offer free college under either a first-dollar program, a last-dollar program or a scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

While many of the immediate concerns in postsecondary education arenas are centered on admissions policies and scholarship support, the potential damage of eliminating affirmative action extends to employees across higher education and beyond.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

. “Even if enrollments appear to stabilize after pandemic lows, declines in elementary and secondary school learning and proficiency may present additional future challenges for postsecondary education,” the latest report reads.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Miller, professor of higher education and public policy at the University of Arkansas, about Dr. Everrett A. In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.”

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 18, 2022

” And more than 39 million Americans have earned college credit but no degree, a number that grew substantially over the past 30 months, perhaps reflecting a growing disillusionment with postsecondary education. What is going on here?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

As an ever-growing number of cost-conscious students turn to community colleges for their first two years of postsecondary education, there will be an increase in requests for residential housing from that population, Bean says. During the school year, there are some academic achievement scholarships.

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University Business

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

More from UB: How to take the ‘value lens’ approach to higher education Yet, experts at Texas Higher Ed are projecting that by 2030, at least 62% of jobs in Texas will require some postsecondary education. Here in Texas that’s particularly important as we’ve become majority minority in the under 24-year-old age group.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Emerging HSIs have a Latinx undergraduate enrollment rate between 15% and 24.9%.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 10, 2023

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. The Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, sponsored by the U.S. Yet, at most U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

In April, Dr. Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. Department of Education and the Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Insight Into Diversity

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

With more than 82 million adults never having enrolled in postsecondary education and another 40.4 Financial concerns are a significant barrier, with many adults prioritizing cost, financial aid, and scholarships when deciding if, and where, to enroll.

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WCET Frontiers

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

By sending coordinated messages proven to motivate action, the goal is to ensure more students — especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds — gain access to financial aid and higher education. For example, seniors may receive reminders to apply for scholarships or timely nudges about approaching FAFSA deadlines.

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