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Study: Latino Students Use Practical Strategies to Finance College Education

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Perhaps most significantly, Latino students are more than twice as likely to receive grants (67%) than take out loans (27%), indicating a strong preference for aid that doesn't require repayment. For state grants, 16% of Latino students received need-based grants compared to only 2% who received merit-only grants.

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Morgan State University’s Bold Journey Toward Elite R1 Research Status

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From 2005 to 2021, for instance, theclassification system considered 10 different variables. The university won a series of multimillion-dollar federal grants for projects that span thesocial as well as physical sciences. A progress report for 2018-2023 and other universitysources lists a series of research feats at MorganState.

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$2.1M Grant Aims to Diversify Geosciences

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million grant to NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences (DEEGS) , as part of the more than $7 million shared among the universities, each attracting different student bodies. Akinleye “This grant presents a great opportunity for the DEEGS,” said Chancellor Dr. Johnson O. Dr. Johnson O.

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New Report: Faculty Remain Stubbornly White

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An analysis of data since 2005 shows that percentages of minoritized faculty haven’t increased much, even as student bodies have grown more diverse. Schools that showed the most growth tended to be ones that did not have any minoritized faculty at all in 2005. “I

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Parnell Named President of NASPA — Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education

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Over the past eight years, Parnell secured over $22 million in grant funding, represented NASPA through service to over 20 organizations including the U.S. From 2005 through 2012, she served as education policy analyst for the Florida Legislature. “Dr.

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Panel Dives into Social Mobility

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Paul Glastris, the editor-in-chief of Washington Monthly , which introduced a ranking of colleges by social mobility in 2005, said that the new emphasis was really back to basics. The panelists generally agreed that the new focus on social mobility was a positive development.

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Howard Earns $90 Million DoD Contract, a First for an HBCU

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Howard had previously received a grant from the Department of Defense in 2020 of $7.5 At the University of Hawaii, protestors occupied President David McClain’s office for a week in 2005 to protest a potential UARC sponsored by the Navy, criticizing what they described as the militarization of the university.