Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The bill’s authors cited the Supreme Court decision against race-conscious admissions in their memo, even though that ruling did not address college aid.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 4, 2024

The four-university network’s governing board asked for court permission to remove the eligibility requirements from over four dozen award programs.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Department of Agriculture reopened applications to the 1890 Scholars Program, which provides federal scholarships to agriculture students at historically Black land-grant institutions. On Tuesday, the U.S. The program was previously suspended pending further review, according to the departments website last week.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Merit scholarships are widely seen as exactly what their name suggests: financial awards institutions dole out to deserving students based on proven academic achievement. Some say it’s an unacknowledged equity issue.

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Inside Higher Ed

APRIL 15, 2024

Duke University has ended its Reginaldo Howard Scholars program, which granted full-ride merit scholarships to a small cohort of students of African descent in each incoming class.

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Higher Ed Dive

JANUARY 22, 2024

The proposal mirrors legislation passed last year in Florida and Texas that forbids public colleges from spending money on diversity, equity and inclusion.

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Higher Ed Dive

JUNE 30, 2023

The campuses will honor financial aid commitments already awarded, as those were issued under previous interpretations from the Supreme Court.

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The PIE News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The new Youth Assembly Impact Program will provide scholarships to 10 young leaders from Africa who will receive individual mentoring, seed-funding and support to implement initiatives in their local communities that advance sustainable development.

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Inside Higher Ed

JUNE 18, 2024

Texas public colleges are freezing or amending 131 scholarships with race-based eligibility requirements in order to comply with the state’s new law prohibiting spending on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, according to The Dallas Morning News.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A Texas foundation has petitioned the state district court to change the language on an endowment fund that provides graduate school scholarships to women studying biology, myRGV reported.

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HEPI

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Universities have started recognising the importance of Education and Scholarship (E&S) academic roles to maintain a good balance between education and research. In terms of research, there is far less recognition of excellence in education and scholarship compared to excellence in subject-specific research output.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Is scholarship their fountain of youth? Is scholarship their fountain of youth? Long after retirement, these professors are still publishing. By Heidi Landecker Illustration by The Chronicle; courtesy of Lucy Freeman Sandler, Samuel Jay Keyser, and Jean H. Baker These 90-something professors are still publishing.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 7, 2024

The University of South Carolina launched an initiative to provide personalized advising for learners on scholarships who are at risk of losing financial aid. Since 2021, around 2,500 students have maintained their scholarships as a result.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The program, launched in 2015, is a last-dollar free tuition scholarship for the state’s community college students. The Tennessee Higher Education Commission announced Monday that the Tennessee Promise program saw a record number of applicants—more than 670,000—from the Class of 2025.

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Inside Higher Ed

JULY 8, 2024

A Lehigh University student with a full scholarship pleaded guilty to a forgery change and was expelled after admitting online that he faked admissions documents and used ChatGPT to write his essay.

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Inside Higher Ed

AUGUST 2, 2024

A Chicago-area philanthropist has backed out of a pledge to give $10 million in scholarships to 1,250 low-income and first-generation college students weeks before the start of the fall semester.

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Higher Ed Dive

MAY 9, 2023

The North Star Promise would bridge the gap between tuition costs and students' grants and scholarships, according to proposed legislation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

It’s a label that marks us as “unwelcome” and our scholarship as “controversial.” And while it’s incredibly unsettling, I believe there’s a powerful irony here – when we’re pressured and marginalized, our scholarship often grows stronger and more urgent. Our voices not only tell untold stories but demand new ways of thinking.

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HEPI

JULY 21, 2024

Promotion for academics, especially those on teaching and scholarship (T&S) pathways, is fraught with challenges. Scholarship activities that significantly impact student learning and success are frequently undervalued. As a result, this unrealistic expectation discourages many from seeking promotion.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

William & Mary received a historic $50million gift to support scholarships for students pursuing a newly approved bachelors degree in coastal and marine sciences at the institutions Batten School. The donation comes from alumnus Dr. R. Todd Stravitz and his familys Brunckhorst Foundations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2025

Two major donations bolster the initiative: an anonymous $1 million gift and a $500,000 matching gift from the Barbara Monroe Scholarship Fund. million in scholarships to 710 first-generation college students from underrepresented communities. Since 2017, its Community Scholars Initiative has provided over $1.9

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

McMickens’s scholarship centers on historically marginalized and underserved populations that suffer from inequities, particularly in higher education. The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

I did it because of the implications of my scholarship around Black women, girls, my experience with social class and racial identity development, she says. If my scholarship isnt reaching [the public], its not doing what it needs to do. She gives thanks to her mentors guidance. Thats the meat and potatoes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

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. When TheDream.US

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The gift by an anonymous donor will be used on programmatic and scholarship support at the historically Black medical school. Juan McGruder A $20 million gift to Meharry Medical College is expected to enhance the college's mission to serve underserved populations and cultivate the next generation of health care providers and researchers.

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Higher Ed Dive

OCTOBER 29, 2024

The case marks a new step in the debate over race-conscious policies, with plaintiffs claiming the program discriminates against nonminority candidates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Stillman, and his wife Susan, made the gift to support scholarships, faculty development, academic programs, and campus improvements. The great-grandson of Reverend Charles Allen Stillman the founder of Stillman Collegeahistorically Black institution in Alabama founded in 1876, has made a $2 million donation to the college. Dr. Charles M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Flagship Pathway Scholarship Endowment in 2021. The scholarship supports graduates from 38 designated high schools across Tennessee, renewable for up to four years and combinable with other scholarships. “If To ease students’ paths, Robinson and his family established the Theotis Robinson Jr.

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The Guardian - Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Critics say courses are being closed that played a leading role in addressing racial disparities in higher education Black scholarship in the UK risks being wiped out due to redundancies and course closures, leading academics have warned.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Tennessee Promise, a last-dollar scholarship program that kicks in after a graduating high school student receives aid through the Pell Grant and other state grants, drew over 67,000 applicants this year. It quickly inspired a wake of last-dollar scholarship programs across Oregon, New York and Rhode Island, according to The Tennessean.

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The PIE News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

As EDHEC strives to bring more international students to its campuses, especially from India, the institution has also introduced scholarships in the region. “We “We are also the only French business school that offers a dedicated French language scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 9, 2025

Caleb, you should have been welcomed into the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Incorporated Beta Sigma Chapter at Southern University with open arms, guided by the principles of manhood, scholarship, perseverance, and uplift. It should be about scholarship, leadership, and service, not about brutality. The truth is you were already worthy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

Dr. Robert Paul Wolff Born December 27, 1933, Wolff dedicated his life to scholarship, teaching, and advocacy. Robert Paul Wolff, a distinguished philosopher, educator, and champion of educational equity, passed away last week.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 4, 2024

Cohan offers seven reasons why grad schools should help students cultivate the ability to write for a larger audience. If you’ve ever attended graduate school, you probably have a list of things you wish your program had done better—or at least differently.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Institutions can implement the following measures to alleviate these challenges: Scholarship Programs: Expanding scholarship programs to include online students can provide crucial financial support. Leveraging Scholarship Programs Scholarship programs can be adapted to support online students from diverse backgrounds.

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