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Descendants of Enslaved Offered Need-Based Scholarships through Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Williams The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation was born out of the 2016 discovery that in 1838, the Society of Jesus sold more than 272 enslaved men, women, and children from their plantations in Maryland to plantation owners in Louisiana to save Georgetown College from financial ruin. Dr. Harry L.

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Transfer Enrollments Increased Fall 2023

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Eighty-two percent of liberal arts and sciences, humanities and general studies majors changed their majors upon transfer. For students who started community college in 2016, which means a portion of their six years overlapped with COVID, 35% obtained a credential. respectively.

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New HBCU Medical College in NOLA Will Confront Medical Inequities

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Xavier and Ochsner, who first collaborated in the 1980s at Xavier’s College of Pharmacy, began serious planning for the creation of a medical school as early as 2016, but the COVID-19 pandemic put those plans on pause. This work will inspire bold efforts to expand inclusiveness, in terms of access to careers and healthcare in the U.S.

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Puerto Rican Resilience Is a Lesson for the Mainland

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Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students. Even though UAGM - Gurabo enrollment dropped from 17,167 in 2016 to 13,553 in 2020, Méndez Méndez and other leaders made conscious decisions that would keep the cost of tuition level. 6 and 7, 2020 at a 5.8

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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Encourage and advocate for Black males to pursue dual enrollment and other accelerated course/program options in high school to provide access and help equalize and narrow postsecondary education matriculation disparities. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C.

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

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In recent years, Alabama has been the #1 state in terms of opioid prescriptions written, with 121 per 100 people in 2016. The ravages of the opioid crisis meant that Alabama was in desperate need of social workers.

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North Carolina Behind in Goal for Educational Attainment; Calls for Greater Student Support

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But by 2016, Allen decided to return to school and complete her education. With those funds, she was able to enroll at Blue Ridge Community College as a human services technology student, on track to graduate this May. After his passing, I couldn’t cope properly. As a result, I chose to drop out of school.”

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