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Report: HBCUs Received 178 Times Less Foundation Funding than Ivy League Schools in 2019

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On average, historically Black college and universities (HBCUs) received 178 times less funding from foundations than Ivy League schools in 2019, according to a report from research group Candid and ABFE, a nonprofit advocate for investments in Black communities, the Associated Press reported. billion from foundations in 2019.

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Report Finds That Affirmative Action Only Led to Incremental Progress

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The report is a retrospective analysis of the changing demographics at selective and open-access institutions from 2009 to 2019; researchers ended their analysis in 2019 to account for changing enrollment patterns that resulted, in part, from the COVID-19 pandemic. It comes less than a year after the U.S.

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CU Boulder to Pay $4.5 million in Back Pay to Settle Discrimination Claim from Female Faculty Members

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Following the passage of the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act in 2019, CU Boulder conducted an equity analysis in 2021 to determine whether it complies with the new law. The Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act was enacted on Jan. 1, 2021, and was created to close the gender pay gap.

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Report: Undergraduate Enrollment Finally Rising

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Among the years captured in the report, 2019 to 2022 all faced varying rates of decline, with Fall 2021 being the worst (-3.4%). "We However, numbers are still below what they used to be in 2019, 14.2% under amounts for Fall 2019. lower than in Fall 2019. higher than they were in 2019." and 2%, respectively.

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Class of 2022 Employment Rates Return to Pre-Pandemic Levels

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The survey found Class of 2022 employment rates nearly match those for the pre-pandemic Class of 2019, at 64.6% NACE President and CEO Shawn VanDerziel said that the overall outcomes rate for Class of 2022 bachelor’s degree graduates returned to 86%, the same mark as that for the Class of 2019. overall and 59.7% overall and 53.6%

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Jackson Makes SEC History with Head Baseball Coach Appointment

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In 2019, Jackson led the Southern Jaguars to winning the Southwestern Athletic Conference championship in 2019 – the team’s first SWAC championship since 2009 – and Southern's first 30-win season since 2012. He also served in an administrative position in Major League Baseball. 500 record in six years.

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$2.1M Grant Aims to Diversify Geosciences

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In 2019, about 33% of environmental scientists and geoscientists were women, according to the American Geoscience Institute. The percentage of Black environmental scientists and geoscientists fluctuated between 1% and 7.8%, from 2005 to 2019. Gordana Vlahovic, chair of NCCU’s Department of Environmental, Earth and Geospatial Sciences.

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