Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has received $190 million, its largest philanthropic corporate gift, for a scholarship program. Pamela Everhart The money – from Fidelity Investments – will go towards launching the Fidelity Scholars Program, which will have renewable, need-based scholarships and wrap-around support services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2024

Harvard Kennedy School professor Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad has accepted a tenured position at Princeton University. Dr. Khalil Gibran Muhammad Muhammad is the Ford Foundation Professor of History, Race and Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School. Muhammad previously served as an associate professor at Indiana University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

But such was the case at many two-year schools across the U.S. The donations made to community colleges were often unrestricted in nature, free for the schools and their leaders to spend as they saw fit, according to community college officials. For us, this was the largest donation that we had ever received. [It]

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Thriving students and impactful scholarship go hand in hand. Here at American University, we doubled our externally funded research over the last five years, and we opened a new Hall of Science that stands alongside our historic strengths in public affairs and international service. There are three elements to this approach.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 21, 2022

Arizona is one of 28 states that don’t guarantee in-state tuition for undocumented students, though those students who graduated from an Arizona high school and who have been living in the state for three years are eligible for a separate tuition rate that’s 150 percent of the in-state rate.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 15, 2023

Akram followed through, was accepted and was offered a $20,000 scholarship. Instead, he found and enrolled at the University of the People, which offered him a full scholarship to pay for the (minimal) course assessment fees at this otherwise tuition-free university. Why do we have minds if we can’t even go to school?

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

In response to former Queens Museum president Laura Raicovich’s argument that the museum should function as a center for progressive activism, he insists that museums should remain focused on their “artistic mission to ensure cultural preservation, scholarship, education, and public engagement in the realm of ideas.”

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