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Report: HBCU and Tribal Land-Grant Universities Significantly Underfunded

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Land-grant universities (LGUs) that are historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) are significantly underfunded compared to predominantly white LGUs, according to a new report by the Center for American Progress (CAP). This match often comes from state appropriations.

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Scholarship America Named Winner of 2023 Amazon Web Services IMAGINE Grant for Nonprofits

Scholarship America

The grant award will be used to fund Scholarship America’s ambitious data insights project, unifying large data repositories and applying analytics and visualization for deep, detailed, and actionable insights. Since it was founded in 1958, Scholarship America has distributed $5.1

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Pushing for Transformative Policy Improvements that Deliver Equitable Value for All Students

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Since 2018, we’ve notched several policy wins and made measurable progress for students. We’ve also advocated for need-based financial aid investments and, alongside fellow advocates, pushed lawmakers to increase the maximum Pell Grant award.

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St. Augustine's University Placed on Probation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Augustine was previously on probation between 2016 and 2018 due to financial issues and institutional effectiveness doubts. Augustine an extension “for good cause” due to the school showing significant recent strides in addressing non-compliance and evidence that deficiencies will be addressed within a year.

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2019 survey of almost 40,000 California community college students found that 60% of respondents indicated they were housing insecure in 2018, according to The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, an action research center working to make higher education more equitable. Now, IVC is hoping to expand their housing options again.

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Education Department Begins Discharging Loans of Borrowers Alleging Fraud from Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The settlement stems from a 2018 class-action suit from people accusing ED of ignoring applications for loan forgiveness through a federal borrower defense program. However, the settlement ignores the law and grants relief regardless of the evidence or the merits of a particular claim.”

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Persistence Rebounds to Pre-COVID Levels, But Not for Everyone

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

of the students entering college in fall 2021 continued their studies in fall 2022, an increase of nearly one point from the previous year, and equaling the average rate for freshmen from 2016-2018. “It All underrepresented groups tracked in the report had persistence rates lower than in 2018.

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