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In 2015, UNCF received a $50 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. to launch the Career Pathways Initiative (CPI), a 7-year initiative designed to support graduates of Black colleges and universities embark on meaningful careers in their chosen fields.

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From 2015 to 2018 and for the fall semester of 2024, Rodrigues served as the law school's associate dean for faculty development. Rodrigues became dean of the University of Georgia School of Law on January 1, 2025. She joined the School of Law's faculty in the fall of 2005 and was named the holder of the M.E.

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2015; Harper & Davis, III, 2012). As Black male scholars deeply invested in education reform, we believe it is essential to reshape the narrative surrounding Black males, especially in academia. Dr. Adriel Hilton In many educational institutions, Black males are burdened with the label of "problem" rather than "promise" (Howard, 2013).

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Stout has led Achieving the Dream since 2015 and under Stout’s leadership, ATD’s network now includes more than 300 community colleges and 33 Tribal colleges and universities, and its work has reached more than 500 open access colleges. Stout In a news release, Achieving the Dream (ATD) announced that Dr. Karen A.

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A member of the womens soccer team, she was named co-captain in 2014 and 2015. School: Northwestern University Year: 2016 Major: Economics and International Studies Nandi Mehta is a Northwestern University senior majoring in economics and international studies.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Prior to the 2015-16 season, Sports Illustrated named him the No. Paige won the Skip Prosser award as the Mens Basketball Student-Athlete of the Year in 2015. He is the teams all time leader in free throw percentage (.865). 2 high-impact senior in the nation.

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Brian Kite An award-winning theater director and a UCLA professor of directing since 2015, Kite has also served as TFTs interim dean, special academic senior associate dean and theater department chair.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Prior to 2015 it was difficult to find much formal acknowledgement of student food insecurity, let alone services to help. While that generosity of spirit is appreciated, we think it’s time to say thanks and ask how those collective energies could be harnessed to fight students’ hunger, rather than just feed them.

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For example, the percentage of first-time students enrolling in transfer-level math and English courses within their first year of college rose dramatically between the fall 2015 and fall 2020 cohorts.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

NSC’s researchers found that, on a national level, the six-year completion rate for students who began college in Fall 2017 was 62.2%, the same as those who began in Fall 2015. Older college students – those older than age 24 – seem to be finishing college at gradually higher rates, now at 52% from 2015’s 50.5%. million students.

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In 2015, she was named by Diverse as one of the leading women in higher education. Griffin received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021 and has served as a Mellon Foundation Scholar in Residence. She earned her bachelor of arts in history and literature from Harvard University and completed her doctorate in American studies at Yale University.

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JUNE 10, 2025

After attending the organization’s first leadership institute in Chicago in 2015, Berg found himself increasingly involved, eventually stepping in as interim executive director when the previous leader faced health challenges. His path to leading LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education was serendipitous.

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JULY 8, 2024

But a decade ago, in 2015, Gallup found that most respondents (57%) had high confidence in higher education, while 10% had little or none. This, the survey concludes, is primarily because Republican respondents feel colleges are pushing liberal political agendas on students.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

School :Queens University of Charlotte Year: 2016 Major : Biochemistry Corey Brown, a biochemistry major at Queens University of Charlotte and soccer team forward, started in all 19 games for the 2015 season. He tallied nine goals, 11 assists and led the team in points with 29. He also racked up five game-winning goals.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2025

A 2015 ABA report found that on average law schools receive 69% of revenue from tuition, with 25% of schools receiving at least 88% of their revenue from tuition. Law schools are highly tuition dependent.

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MARCH 6, 2025

Prior to her current role, was the executive director of the Wisconsin Technical College District Boards Association, an organization representing the trustees of the 16 Wisconsin technical colleges district boards, since 2015.

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APRIL 13, 2023

Glaude has been chair since AAS , originally a certificate program, became a department in 2015. With this move, he said he would be staying at Princeton and returning to full-time research and other responsibilities, such as “trying to help the nation imagine itself differently when it comes to race matters.”

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Business has been the highest-paid discipline since 2015-16, with Computer Science, Engineering, and Legal Professions consistently ranking among the top four highest-paid fields throughout the period. The highest-paid disciplines have remained relatively consistent over the two decades studied.

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APRIL 9, 2025

In 2015, I faced a negative credit outlook from Moody's, a challenge that jeopardized the "fresh start" I was brought in to achieve. The Land of Oz: Financial Storm Clouds Gather My career, which has spanned from the Federal Reserve to leading struggling universities, has highlighted the significance of credit agency evaluations.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

It follows a $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment in 2015 that enabled UNCF to launch the Career Pathways Initiative to help enhance career outcomes for students. The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The author of Medicine and Ethics in Black Women’s Speculative Fiction (2015), her interdisciplinary research in the field of the medical humanities engages literary, historical, philosophical, and ethical explorations of black women’s health and medicine. Jones is also an associate professor of Africana Studies.

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MARCH 15, 2023

Since 2015, Wellesley has allowed transgender women to apply for admission. Women’s liberal arts institution Wellesley College students voted Mar. 14 to allow transgender men and nonbinary people assigned male at birth to be eligible for admission, The Washington Post reported.

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JUNE 10, 2025

Tennis star Coco Gauff won the French Open women's singles title on Saturday, becoming the first American since Serena Williams in 2015 to claim the trophy. She defeated top-ranked Aryna Sabalenka in three sets in a thrilling match that showcased both her athletic prowess and mental fortitude.

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APRIL 10, 2024

More students earned certificates than any year in the past decade, while associate degrees awarded fell to its lowest point in a decade and bachelor's degrees awarded fell to its lowest since 2015–16 academic year. These drops “erase the gains made between 2015 and 2020,” said Dr. Pietro A.

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JULY 29, 2024

Wheelan, who was honored by Diverse in 2015 with its Dr. John Hope Franklin award , was the first woman and first African American to lead SACSCOC. “I have spent my entire professional career focused on helping students achieve their educational goals and being president of SACSCOC has been the icing on the cake.”

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The prison education program as a whole has had more than 400 students since 2022, composing a mix of both incarcerated or formerly incarcerated people and Marquette undergrads, though the program’s origins stretch back to 2015, Wheelock said.

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In 2015, 65% of state high school graduates were going straight to college, but by 2020, down to 53% were attending college the year after high school. The program – begins June 2023 – will be available to families at little to no cost and will run as two separate weeklong sessions from Jun. 18-23 and 25-30.

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Crazy Bull chose The American Indian College Fund.

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JUNE 25, 2024

ELP is a leadership program established in 2015 to prepare academic and administrative professionals who are exploring opportunities to advance to higher-level administrative positions. Esterberg, an ELP executive sponsor and chancellor at the University of Washington Bothell.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

He led the Tide to nine SEC championships and won national titles in 2009, 2011, 2012, 2015, 2017, and 2020. Saban led LSU to SEC championships in 2001 and 2003, when he won his first national title. Saban’s team dealt with an early season loss to Texas in September but rebounded to upset then-No. 1 Georgia in the 2023 SEC Championship game.

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She won the AERA Early Career Award in 2012 and the Qualitative Research SIG’s 2015 Outstanding Book Award for Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry with Youth and Communities (SAGE, co-edited with D. Winn holds a bachelor’s degree in English from University of California, Davis, as well as a master’s and Ph.D.

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Charlie Baker Baker will finish his second term as governor in January, a role the Republican has held since January 2015, but has returned to Democratic hands with the election of Maura Healey, who will be the state's first openly gay governor.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2024

It would join rowing (1996), ice hockey (2000), water polo (2000), bowling (2003) and beach volleyball (2015).

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MARCH 31, 2024

Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. I think that is injecting new energy and new thinking into the movement,” says Stout, who previously led Montgomery County Community College in Pennsylvania from 2001 to 2015. “We There was also a robust focus on the humanities. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A.

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JANUARY 30, 2024

The Tragil Wade-Johnson Summer Reading Program, named after Wade’s sister, has extensively reduced the “summer slide” in reading achievement among Milwaukee school children since 2015. The program launched with funds from the Wade’s World Foundation and continues with monies from fundraising.

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MARCH 18, 2024

He said the plan will lead to a six-week summer internship program for high school students and leverage the “Mobile Energy Lab” program he founded in 2015 at Wayne State to engage Detroit middle schoolers. “By

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Fuchs served as the university’s 12th president from January 2015 to February 2023, before taking a yearlong sabbatical. I look forward to working this year with the faculty, staff, students, and alumni as we lead the nation in our teaching, research, and land-grant and clinical activities,” said Fuchs, who starts in the role Aug.

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