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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students.

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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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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For generations, HBCUs have been creating opportunities despite systemic underfunding and external pressures. UNCF recognized that these institutions need more than just emergency support or short-term grants. HBCUs have always been innovating for generations. But then we had a snag.

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Oregon Tech Doubles Down on Student Coaching to Serve Diverse Rural Learners

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many are first-generation college students, working adults, transfer students, or military-affiliated learners seeking to advance their careers in STEM fields. The expansion comes as Oregon Tech serves a student body that reflects many of the demographic trends reshaping higher education nationwide.

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Use the College-Level Exam Program to Full Advantage

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Participants can receive credit for college courses, exemption from required courses, or advanced placement in the curriculum of a college’s degree program. Review the college’s policies to verify that it will grant credits for specific exams. They have higher average GPA’s than their classmates.

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Education Experts Warn Against Potential Dismantling of U.S. Department of Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Its absence, she added, would mean that education would no longer be a priority at the federal level, which could have a chilling effect and dangerous consequences including the loss of curriculum standards, decreased support for HBCUs, loss of federal oversight in special education and disruption of Pell Grants and federal student loans. "It

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Council for Opportunity in Education Condemns President Trump’s Proposal to Eliminate Federal TRIO Programs 

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Hamm President Trumps newly released 2026 budget proposes the complete elimination of the Federal TRIO Programs, which have helped millions of low-income, first-generation students – including veterans, adult learners, and students with disabilities – succeed in higher education for over 60 years. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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