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Radford University Low-Income Students Get Leg Up with $1.2M Grant

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million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. Radford received its hoped-for amount in the grant, said Trageser, as they carefully calculated what it would cost to hire and keep their student support advocates.

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$2.59M Grant Supports Nurse Training to Support Underserved Patients

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million grant through the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. “We Students develop competency in leading therapeutic groups, implementing crisis and case management, prescribing psychotropic medications, and conducting psychotherapy. Dr. Kathryn E.

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

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Study: Community College Housing Program Produced Better Life Outcomes

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In reality, after grants and scholarships, one year of community college “now costs students an excess of $15,000 a year,” said Goldrick-Rab. Helping these students, she said, has become more of a social-work, case-management skill, and UW Tacoma is looking for social workers to help them better understand how to serve their students.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. Edward’s University, a private university in Austin, Texas, enrolls 2,766 undergraduate students, 51% of whom are Latino and 40% are Pell Grant recipients. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino. Edward’s University St.

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Examples of Excelencia

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We take a case management approach in that we look at individual students—their high school transcripts, if they had ESL (English as a Second Language) in school, if they self-designate as English language learners, and writing samples that they do to see if they need some language support,” Moreno says.

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The Colorado Department of Higher Education Allocates an Additional $126k to Expand Highly Successful Single Stop Program

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IN SUPPORTS, RESULTING IN BETTER STUDENT PERSISTENCE AND SUCCESS New York, NY— The Colorado Department of Higher Education (CDHE) will expand the number of colleges utilizing Single Stop’s benefits screening and case management program by allocating an additional $126,000 to expand the program.