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San Diego Foundation Commits $4M to Help Underserved Students Reach College

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in 2023-24, only 4% of English learners, 8% of foster youth, and 8% of homeless students graduated. The foundation will distribute $935,000 in grants to 10 local nonprofits in San Diego providing services including tutoring, counseling, and college application assistance. Founded in 1975, SDF has granted $1.8

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. Dr. Gresham D.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

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million grant from T.D. million grant will lay the groundwork for an innovative mixed-use development that not only provides essential services and resources but also strengthens the college’s long-term vision for community impact. The college has also partnered with the Jakes Divinity School since 2023 to offer a T.D.

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Howard University Makes History as First HBCU to Achieve Top Research Status

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In Fiscal Year 2023, the most recent evaluation year in the classification cycle, the University's productivity was significantly higher than the R1 base criteria, recording just under $85 million in research expenditures and awarding 96 doctorates in an array of fields, Jones said. Dr. Bruce A. Howard reaching R1 status is phenomenal.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino.

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AccessLex Provides Update to Legal Education Data Deck in New Release

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Black and Hispanic students comprised 22% of first-year enrollment in the 2023-24 academic year but accounted for 33% of non-transfer attrition. In comparison, white students receive aid packages averaging $39,400, with 55% in federal loans and 36% in institutional grants. Bar passage rates continue to show racial disparities.

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LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education: Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers

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and the board asked me to stay on as executive director in 2023,” he explains. The organization’s first formal strategic plan, adopted in October 2023, outlines ambitious goals for the next three years. “The board asked me to serve for the rest of that year as interim executive director. We lived through the 1980s and the 1990s.