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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Bronwyn Cross-Denny, Christina Gunther, Sofia Pendley, and Jacqueline Vernarelli — recently secured a $1,495,472 HRSA (Health Resources and Services Administration) grant titled “Public Health Scholarship Program to Strengthen the Emergency Preparedness Workforce.” Dr. Lisa Kreeger The bachelor’s degree in public health at St.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. The Mount has proudly been an HSI since the late 1990s, Burns says, and about 51% of its students are Pell Grant eligible.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. Watford says.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

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Byrne is intent on increasing Macaulay’s already high graduation rate of approximately 80%, which continues to rise even as the number of Pell Grant recipients has risen. She was crucial to building smooth transfer pathways from CUNY’s community colleges to John Jay. There is also an effort to increase equity.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

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As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 Through the college’s Student Equity and Achievement Program, Alvarez oversaw Otero’s redesign of classrooms, curriculum and teaching practices to make learning more inviting and inclusive. As he prepares to retire Aug. Otero is a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI).

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

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We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. UMGC is open access, which means there are students from different backgrounds and preparation levels.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible. Students attend a six-week course contextualized for their needs.

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