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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While MSIs play a key role in promoting faculty diversity by consistently employing more educators of color than other institutions, MSI faculty also face pressures, such as heavy teaching and advising loads, high expectations for research and publishing, and limited resources for career development.

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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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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in 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 But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Moses, who served as her faculty adviser and co-chair of her dissertation committee.

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Supporting the Whole Student Through Holistic Advising: Reflections on ED’s Raise The Bar Summit

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Department of Education and IHEP convened the summit focused on holistic advising and wraparound support services. One Million Degrees offers coaching, mentoring, and financial and professional guidance. Another critical component of advising is helping students envision and achieve their career goals.

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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Back in December of 2020, the foundation awarded the then-budding EPP a $745,000 24-month grant that allowed the team to build up and grow. The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said.

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Investing in Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the $30 million gift came no advised direction, restrictions, nor stipulations, Boekelheide says, calling Scott’s donation a “windfall” and a “vote of confidence” in what PCC was doing. According to the college, the internal grant awards total approximately $1 million a year. They are paid a competitive wage of $20 an hour.