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Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I I was able to complete proposals that upper administrators complete.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Pell Grant recipients or those who qualified for free school breakfast or lunch were eligible for the ACP. The program emerged as a way to help families remain connected to workforce and educational opportunities as they moved online. According to the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), one in five U.S.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. López — the daughter of immigrants — says the land-grant university was a promising choice, given its scholars and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico Dr. Ruth M. Mexico border and her scholarly work on immigration. “As

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

The first African American in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis to earn tenure and be appointed to a named professorship, Jackson would eventually work his way up the ranks of the faculty, ultimately securing the rank of full professor and taking on the role of department chair. I gave up.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.” Montgomery—an accomplished economist who served in the Clinton and Obama administrations—is African American. “Now The school’s president, Dr. Edward B. Now that we’re starting to get the results, we’re able to tell our social justice story.”

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JANUARY 26, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma Age: 38 Education: B.S., Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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OCTOBER 11, 2024

Scholarship with a moral imperative Vassar, whose work is in the department of educational leadership at Wayne State, has made equity and justice the center of everything she does. I was compelled to be an educator’ Vassar spent two decades in K-12 roles as a teacher, counselor, and administrator after receiving her Ph.D.

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MARCH 29, 2024

Jamie Washington — an educator, author, student affairs administrator, pastor, consultant, president and co-founder of the Social Justice Training Institute (SJTI), past-president of the American College Personnel Association (ACPA), and much more. Washington is the president and co-founder of Washington Consulting Group (WCG).

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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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JANUARY 20, 2023

Daniel Collier, assistant professor of higher and adult education in the department of leadership at the University of Memphis Collier described the changes as “an absolute win” for stopped out students, many of whom are first-generation and/or minoritized.

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JANUARY 19, 2024

Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation’s 2023 MCT Scholarship. The annual scholarship is meant for matriculating students in master’s or doctoral programs in student affairs or higher ed administration-related fields. candidate studying educational leadership & policy analysis and gender & women studies.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A Texas district judge ’s decision to str ike down the Biden administration’s student loan forgiveness plan Thursday is a significant blow to the future of the program, according to experts. Department of Education pulled down the online application for forgiveness. In response to the ruling, the U.S.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Jon Fansmith Fansmith is hopeful that Biden will discuss federal financial aid, particularly the possibility of doubling the Pell Grant. Supreme Court, to indicate that his administration will not give up on relief for student borrowers. “It Finding out if that is still a priority of the administration would be interesting.”

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OCTOBER 18, 2024

This latest relief brings the total number of public service workers who have had their student loans forgiven under the Biden-Harris administration to over 1 million. Before Biden took office, only 7,000 borrowers had received forgiveness through PSLF, highlighting the transformative impact of the administration's reforms to the program.

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MARCH 11, 2024

While speaking on his administration’s accomplishments in his last four years of service, Biden also addressed what he called “the future of possibilities we can build together.” In September 2023, the administration offered $93 million in research and development grants to HBCUs, Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs), and other MSIs.

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JULY 11, 2023

Supreme Court struck down President Joe Biden’s plan to cancel nearly half a trillion dollars of student debt, his administration moved quickly to show that it wasn’t giving up. “I Indeed, the Biden administration appears to have considered it in 2021. When the U.S. This fight is not over.”

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DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. He explained that many campus administrators are self-imposing various versions of DEI rollbacks even when not legislatively mandated. The re-election of President Donald J.

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MAY 8, 2025

For instance, in April 2024, the initiative hosted the first-ever Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Higher Education Leadership Development Summit. A year prior, Berkeley had been awarded its first federal grant as an AANAPISI or Asian American and Native American Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Marybeth Gasman Ultimately, geographic location will make the difference in access to and completion of postsecondary education in America, and as the Trump administration moves into the White House, experts predict more chaos, more confusion, and more challenges to higher education. Dr. Stella M.

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