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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. The grant is a California Student Aid Commission program.”

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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. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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Young to Head-up FAMU Center for African and African American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The center, which will open its doors during the 2024-25 academic year, is made possible in part, from funding from two major philanthropic organizations. MacArthur Foundation granted a total $550,000 to support the center; each gifted FAMU $275,000. The Henry Luce Foundation and the John D. and Catherine T.

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Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby Selected to Lead USC Race and Equity Center

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Naslund Chair in Curriculum and Teaching. More than $4 million in National Science Foundation grants have funded her work. USC Rossier presented her its 2024 Excellence in Teaching Award. “I Dr. Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby DeCuir-Gunby is a tenured full professor and holds the Robert H.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dueñas says her work calls upon “researchers, educators, [and] even, at times, policymakers to think about the ways in which policies, curriculums, rules, bylaws. affect the day-to-day lives of students.” and she received a 2019 Graduate Peer Mentor Award at University of Wisconsin-Madison Graduate School, among others.

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Expanding Horizons: The 2024 Keith Sherin Global Leaders Program 

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Expanding Horizons: The 2024 Keith Sherin Global Leaders Program August 26, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm A group picture of participants from the 2024 Keith Sherin Global Leaders program with group leaders in the Netherlands. The program’s impact on its participants was profound, as evidenced by their reflections. .

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the CAMP projects for the 2024-25 academic year is getting at least half of the participants selected for internships for their sophomore year. Project upGRADS, which is funded by a federal grant, aims to improve access to and success in graduate education. The summer 2024 META had almost 200 participants.

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