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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Before UVM, he helped launch the Amherst College Press in 2013 and led a consortium of libraries in creating the open-access Lever Press in 2016. I understand the mission of libraries to be a rather simple one, which is in part to make sure that everybody who needs good information and scholarship has access to that,” Geffert said. “I

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Financial Aid Displacement: What Families and Scholarship Providers Should Know

Scholarship America

Updated January 2023 Students and their families are often surprised to realize some colleges reduce their financial aid packages when the student earns private scholarship dollars—a practice called financial aid displacement or award displacement. They take unique approaches to scholarship aid that reduce the chance of displacement.

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants. His mounting honors include multiple prestigious scholarships, serving as Commencement Speaker at his Rio graduation, and receiving the 37th Annual AZ Martin Luther King Jr.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Granting that sort of leeway to aspiring and professional scientists from underrepresented groups has only increased during the five decades that SACNAS has been operating and growing. “How How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? How is that going to impact missions?”

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. In 2021, we published our Completion Grants Playbook , and our CEO Bridget Burns joined the Chronicle's Assistant Managing Editor Ian Wilhelm to co-host this virtual conversation about helping under-resourced students complete their degrees.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68

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The U.S. Military Pays College Costs

College Planners of America

The application also enters students into competition for ROTC scholarships. ROTC Scholarship Selection Boards meet to review applicants every October, January, and March. ROTC Scholarships ROTC scholarships are based on merit rather than need. 2,500 applicants were awarded a scholarship.