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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

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since 2018. Moores work has focused on closing opportunity gaps, increasing access to quality education, and addressing systemic barriers that disproportionately affect marginalized groups. Dr. Jerlando F.L.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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CCP Board Ousts Generals Without Explanation After Decade of Growth

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Board of Trustees chairman Harold Epps acknowledged some of these achievements in a statement, highlighting "five semifinalists for the Jack Kent Cooke Undergraduate Transfer Scholarship, the first cohort to graduate from the City College of Municipal Employment and three consecutive years of semester-over-semester enrollment growth."

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Meet Shai Reshef, the 2023 Yidan Prize Winner

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The global challenge of access to higher education means that its life-changing impact in terms of opening minds, improving employment and earnings remain out of reach for many. In 2018, the University of the People unveiled a new online Master of Education in Advanced Teaching, developed in partnership with the International Baccalaureate.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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This is necessary but must include intentional and proactive scholarship and resources on racial identity development. Since their creation, tests have disproportionately hindered access to gifted and talented education (GATE), AP, college acceptance (particularly to elite higher education institutions), scholarships, and so on.

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Athletics and Academics

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Access to sports Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Nzingha Prescod initially didn’t see many sports options, but at age 8 she found her way to The Peter Westbrook Foundation, which offered fencing to New York City kids. “I It also seeks to improve access to quality education for kids in under-resourced communities. years at St.

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For the Common Good

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Some are creating new programming, while others endeavor to increase access for students interested in serving the most vulnerable populations. Photo Courtesy of Dr. “With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access. Francis College. We’re diversifying the healthcare workforce.