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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. From 2021 to 2024, the percentage of Latinx faculty applicants increased by 15%. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year. The number of applicants and their diversity have increased significantly over time.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As of now, we have over 300 applications for next fall from students that have applied for housing,” says Nicholas Hamel, vice president and dean of student services at Central Maine Community College (CMCC). Another 100 more have indicated on their admissions application that they may have interest. EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We have a wonderful program called Pathways, where we do outreach to middle schools, high schools and community colleges, providing application clinics and parent academies,” says Dr. Leroy M. We have also increased the financial support for those students that will help them access emergency funds, paid internships and more scholarships.

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From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey

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It was, in fact, this pursuit of assembling the perfect Ivy League college application that sparked my passion for service and introduced me to what would become my calling. Thanks to a fortuitous introduction by a partner in the firm’s Education Practice Group , I joined COE in 2007 as its director of congressional affairs.

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The State of Law School Diversity in the Wake of Affirmative Action Bans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over the last three years, Black law school applicants have made up roughly 7.8% of all applicants, and, according to the American Bar Association, Black lawyers only make up 5% of all practitioners. Latinx law school applicants made up 9.4% of applicants in 2023, and only 5% of all lawyers in the country. population.