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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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Communication is key on how the funding works to benefit students.” Challenges to Qualify Francis-Begay references a program at the University of Arizona—the Arizona Native Scholars Grant—a grant program that promises tuition, and college fees for Native American Arizona residents pursuing their first bachelor’s degree.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. In 2022-23, over 350 students were awarded close to $772,000 in Graduate Initiative Grants. in 2022-23. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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New Jersey City University Continues Financial Recovery After 2022 Fiscal Crisis

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Twenty months ago, in June of 2022, New Jersey City University (NJCU) declared a financial crisis. In total, 43 undergrad programs, 28 graduate programs, one doctoral program, 22 minor programs, and eight certificate programs were sunset, according to NJCU Chief Communications Officer Ira Thor.

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Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

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million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year. And if the organization keeps at that pace and changes nothing about how it does things, that equity gap between students of different income levels won’t be closing, said Stephanie Sample, Common App’s vice president of communications. labor force.

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Compounding Inequities in Law School Are Not Insurmountable

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Tiffane Cochran However, the percentage of first-year law students who were people of color — 35% — barely changed between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years. Additionally, in the 2022-23 school year, Black and Hispanic students made up a significantly higher proportion of first-year law school attrition than they did the prior year.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Bill to Codify Postsecondary Student Success Grants Met with Support and Criticism from Scholars and Advocates

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The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates. “By