Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

Latino students are making pragmatic financial choices to pay for their education, and institutions are increasingly responding with tailored support, according to a comprehensive new report released today by Excelencia in Education. Brown, President of Excelencia in Education, in the report's foreword.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The state of Michigan is expanding a program that provides a tuition-free community scholarship to adults ages 21-24 who have not yet earned college degrees, FOX 2 reported. This expansion will help us reach our Sixty by 30 goal—to have 60% of adults earn a postsecondary education or training by 2030—and build on our economic momentum.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2024

The donation is expected to support scholarships with $15 million, endowed professorships in artificial intelligence with $2 million, opportunities for international exchange with $2 million, and the Chancellor’s Speaker Series with $1 million. A&T continues to thrive as a leading institution for higher learning and innovation.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Moore III The webinar, “Federal Funding and HBCUs,” held on Wednesday, centered on the National Science Foundation’s (NSF) efforts to support STEM research and education at HBCUs. Recent data projects that nearly four million additional people will be needed in 2030 for the science and engineering workforce to be representative of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2025

Beverly Walker-Griffea A new report from Michigan's Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement, and Potential (MiLEAP) outlines 12 high-impact policy recommendations aimed at eliminating basic needs insecurity as a barrier to college completion for Michigan students. And then, you even get the students that will drop out."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

He continues to work with 2030 STEM, a thinktank that aims to diversify the STEM fields. Daly says she was not only impressed by Delgado’s scholarship, but his deliberate and intentional work to de-silo the field, embracing diversity in what are often “primarily white spaces.” That’s not always the same person — he’s good at both.”

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