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Womanist Ethicist, Theologian Named MLK Professor of Religion and Black Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Her scholarship as a womanist and Black theology comprises work on social issues such as racial health disparities and environmental racism. Townes holds a Doctor of Ministry degree from the University of Chicago Divinity School and a Ph.D. in religion in society and personality from Northwestern University.

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University of Vermont Launches Open-Access Academic Press

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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

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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

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Support for prison education was bolstered by the landmark 2013 RAND study, which found correctional education leads to a 43% drop in the likelihood of returning to prison and a 13% increase in finding a job upon release. Living the Dream Award for his devotion to social justice and community service.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

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University of La Verne President Dr. Devorah Lieberman is shown with graduating students in 2013. The second big challenge was we knew that if we were going to provide the scholarships that the students needed…we had to raise money for scholarships for our students,” Lieberman said.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? It’s a good thing that many institutions have been tackling those systemic barriers, said Southern Illinois University’s Vargas-Muñiz, who, in 2013 and 2014, was a student member of SACNAS’ board of directors.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. We have excellent outcomes on that; we have great support from our legislature that provides a dual credit scholarship that removes financial barriers,” says Ellis. “We It also licenses nonprofit and for-profit higher education institutions in the state.