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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Analysis: Degree Completion Gaps for Hispanic Students are Widening

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latino student success in higher education is not where it needs to be, according t o findings from Latino student success organization Excelencia in Education. Santiago "Our mission is to accelerate Latino student success in higher education,” said Dr. Deborah Santiago, lead analysis researcher and CEO of Excelencia CEO.

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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.” GSU’s student support team created a system of automatic micro-grants, which would be auto distributed to students in need. Tim Renick “Today, we’re over 80% nonwhite,” says Renick.

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Association Plans Africa-wide Universities Research Archive

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Olusola Oyewole The Association of African Universities’ (AAU) African Research Innovation and Development (AfRID) network plans to set up a platform to serve as a database of all scholars in Africa and their research.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Colucci-Chang’s story illustrates the “beauty of the pipeline,” says Sanders, whose current role involves ensuring Virginia Tech has a concerted, broad effort to reach out to underrepresented communities to make sure students are prepared for higher education. Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects.

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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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The need for data-informed decision making in higher education continues to increase. Higher education leaders often overestimate the analytics, data, and information capabilities of the institution (2). In reality, education lags behind all other sectors in adoption of analytics solutions (3). Krawitz, M.,

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Building a Sustainable Model for School Wellness Initiatives

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Examples from higher education show how private donations can help increase campus mental health resources. Bring TimelyCare to Your School Foundations Several non-profit foundations such as The Jed Foundation (JED) and Active Minds offer grants to colleges and universities looking to launch or expand mental health initiatives.