Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the critical need to invest in digital infrastructure, but technology was crucial in identifying and addressing student needs well before 2020. College Completion Goals ,” CCA calls on state policymakers to increase investment in the digital and physical infrastructure at HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

At the end of 2020, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) launched the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), which was designed to give low-income households a discount each month on their internet bill, even offering a one-time coupon of up to $100 to buy a laptop, desktop computer, or tablet. million grant from the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

It’s unfortunate, said some alumni and political leaders, who credit Thomas with boosting student enrollment, establishing an honors college, securing millions of dollars in grant funding, and overseeing the construction of three new facilities. Progress completely stopped, and chaos reigned,” he said. That’s why I left.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

PCC’s Community Excellence Grants program allows faculty, staff, and students to propose ideas in service of the school, its diverse campus, and its nearby communities. According to the college, the internal grant awards total approximately $1 million a year. PCC is a place where we have a lot of creative thinking,” Boekelheide says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When Dr. Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. Peer mentors help their mentees learn about campus resources, like the grants available to students who are part of DukeLIFE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. The Bronx is home to over one million people, 56% of whom are Latinx, according to 2020 U.S. But being an HSI isn’t “just about passing the 25% threshold — it’s about intentionality,” says Roy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

One administrator, Dr. Tammy Kochel, described Shawler as “an innovator and a scholar” working both within the university and in the surrounding community to effect positive change. She became the principal investigator on a service grant which funds the center.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional. She notes it helps build community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2023

In a similar survey published by Course Hero in September 2020, about 40 percent of all faculty respondents were considering leaving their job as a result of COVID-19 related impacts. Though the positive results of the survey provide Morris and his team optimism, there were other concerning facts that were revealed in the results.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2024

At Wayne State, she founded efforts such as: Leading Well, a grant-funded professional learning community for Black women school leaders in Detroit; the Center for Black Children in Education (CBCE), which hosts an annual conference; and the Sankofa Scholarship Foundation, which provides scholarships for young people in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino. Dr. Erika D. Edward’s University St.

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#RealCollege Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Federal Pell grants for poor students used to cover 100% of tuition and living expenses at two-year colleges; now the grants barely cover 60%. In response to her research, Dr. Goldrick-Rab started a non-profit, Believe in Students , that provided the Local 212 MATC FAST Fund with a $5,000 start-up grant.

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#RealCollege Blog

JUNE 28, 2022

By: Traci Kirtley (she/her), Believe in Students In February 2020, the novel coronavirus began making its way into the US, creating one of the most dramatic and widespread emergencies of my lifetime. We soon had proof of this impact. How We Responded Within days, we launched efforts to meet this need.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I arrived at Believe in Students in April 2020, just as the pandemic was rocking the world and changing college campuses, in some ways permanently. My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency grants to students.

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Scholarship America

JUNE 1, 2023

As Forbes reports , “Between 1980 and 2020, the average price of tuition, fees, and room and board for an undergraduate degree increased 169%,” thanks to a well-documented confluence of factors. I]n 2020, average education appropriations per full-time equivalent student were still 6% lower overall than in 2008, according to [the] report.”

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College Planners of America

MAY 13, 2023

The 2024-25 FAFSA represents the final implementation of the rules stipulated in the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020 , some of which have already been released in the 2122-23 and 2023-24 FAFSA’s. The 2024-25 FAFSA form will not be launched until December 2023, two months later than the traditional date.

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College Planners of America

JANUARY 5, 2023

Merit-based academic scholarships have ranged from $13,000 to $30,000 and need-based grants have ranged from $1,000 to $40,000. In 2020-2021, 95% of our full-time beginning undergraduates received grant/scholarship aid.”. Colleges also provide additional information about their NPC.

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EAB

JANUARY 30, 2023

Over the past few years—since 2020 in particular—the methods we use to make connections with potential donors have changed. My parents couldn’t afford to pay for any of my college education, so I worked to pay for it on my own using a combination of scholarships, grants, and a work-study.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

As APAHE board president, Tomaneng is considering forming a national network for AAPI and Desi provosts and senior administrators to provide them executive coaching as reminders that presidencies not their current roles can be career mountaintops. 2 post at Rutgers flagship campus. Suzuki was the first Asian American to lead a major U.S.

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College Planners of America

OCTOBER 27, 2022

But now, admissions departments report to senior administrators in an “Enrollment Management” capacity. Colleges now post Cost of Attendance (COA) information on their websites to comply with the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020. Colleges complete a data field named “Institutional non-need-based scholarship or grant aid”.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We believe that sharing the best templates, tools, resources, and materials will make innovation adoption easier and faster for thousands of student success administrators. We're excited to see the Lab support our member campuses. To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list.

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Student Loan Hero

OCTOBER 31, 2022

José Martí Scholarship Challenge Grant Fund. José Martí Scholarship Challenge Grant Fund Focus: Florida residents. The Hispanic Heritage Foundation’s Youth Awards award a grant you can use for college or fund a community service project. AMS Minority Scholarships. Cooperativa Latino Credit Union. HACU IES Abroad Scholarship.

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College Planners of America

OCTOBER 30, 2023

This year, the FAFSA for academic year 2024-25 will not be available until December due to delays at ED resulting from the roll-out of the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020. However, 2023 is an exception. There is an option on the FAFSA form that asks if the student would like to be considered for the FWS program.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We believe that sharing the best templates, tools, resources, and materials will make innovation adoption easier and faster for thousands of student success administrators. We're excited to see the Lab support our member campuses. To access the Lab as a non-UIA member, please add your name to our wait list.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. And that got us the grant. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”

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College Planners of America

APRIL 5, 2024

This year, the ED’s revision of the FAFSA, as mandated by Congress in the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020 (the Act ), has caused delay in the sending of ISIR’s to colleges, which in turn delays their ability to prepare Award Letters. Low-income students will get more aid and more students will be eligible for grants.

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College Planners of America

APRIL 5, 2024

This year, the ED’s revision of the FAFSA, as mandated by Congress in the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020 (the Act ), has caused delay in the sending of ISIR’s to colleges, which in turn delays their ability to prepare Award Letters. Low-income students will get more aid and more students will be eligible for grants.

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Supporting Student Success

MAY 6, 2021

In 2008, I was recruited to run a grant with the purpose of connecting adult learners with data to inform their college choices so they didn’t need to depend on marketing hype from lead generation websites. While I was growing up, my dad had a good job as a radiology tech and then hospital administrator. Courtesy of Cali Morrison.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

And that harmful and tangible racism continues today, as the Biden administration has calculated that historically Black land-grant universities in Tennessee and 15 other states have been cheated out of $12.6 Dr. Wes Bellamy is an associate professor of political science and public administration at Virginia State University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

As the COVID-19 pandemic dawned in Spring 2020, the federal government granted institutions of higher education a series of waivers and flexibilities that allowed them to continue functioning under radically different conditions. This adjustment may be an administratively complex process. It sort of starts a clock.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

College Greenlight became part of EAB in 2020, and we continue to help students connect with colleges and universities to help them find their best college fit and the financial support that they need. Some of them are community-based, they're in things like Boys and Girls Clubs, or the Boys and Girl Scouts, there's. JW: Yeah, absolutely.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2024

Cummings represented District 44, a predominantly Black district in southwestern Baltimore, 14 years and served as vice chairman of the Constitutional and Administrative Law Committee and the Economic Matters Committee. Cummings, who died Oct. Cummings Room.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 22, 2023

The development of the strategic plan began in January 2020 at a weekend gathering of board members as well as individuals from the local community. In addition to the pandemic, in May 2020, George Floyd died at the hands of a Minneapolis police officer. That was part of the strategic plan developed during his presidency.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, non-Hispanic American Indian-Alaskan Native people (AIAN) experienced the biggest drop in life expectancy, declining 6.6 He says obtaining grants and donors to fund recruiting, lectures, and events has become paramount in helping the program recover from the negative impact of the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 24, 2022

At the conclusion of the 2020 election, I celebrated when all the candidates to whom I made a financial contribution won, save one! It is what we must do for our democracy, which we have seen can be both fragile and resilient—and which must never be taken for granted. Every year we are told by leaders from both major U.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

The book was pulled together in 2020, when the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor were fresh on their minds. Fries-Britt, her mentor, was at first reluctant to step into the role as she was just beginning her transition from administration to faculty. Turner Kelly agrees.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 25, 2022

Although he returned to the private sector after his tenure in the Obama Administration, Secretary Duncan generously shared his views on the need for institutions to support student success, the need for government to encourage institutions in this effort, and the urgency for moving ahead with these initiatives. Secretary of Education.

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