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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. Events and activities happen throughout the academic year.

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Building an Academic Space for Black Women Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In graduate school, we began exchanging documents for awards, fellowships, grants, and other opportunities and we realized that while our research was separate, it was also complementary, allowing us to strengthen each others applications. The event will also address the urgency of self-care amid persistent social and political threats.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program also provides access to mentors for early career faculty and trains them in grant writing, op-ed writing, teaching, and how to achieve a better work-life balance. Gasman said that offering the ELEVATE program free of cost is also critical as many MSI faculty lack travel and professional development funding.

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Georgetown University Honors Xavier University of Louisiana's Centennial and Black Catholic Studies Legacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Last Thursdays event, titled Reflecting on the Significance of the Institute for Black Catholic Studies and the Journey Toward Reconciliation, included a discussion among leaders from Xaviers IBCS, the Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation, and Georgetown University. a leading scholar and former head of IBCS.

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National Leaders Spotlight HBCUs as Engines of Social Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many HBCU students are first-generation college students and many are Pell Grant recipients from low income families. This includes sponsoring some events, such as the upcoming UNITE conference. Social mobility has become a focal point in measuring and understanding the return on investment for students and their families.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through the research, she was able to demonstrate the utility of citizen science for classifying neutrino events in the IceCube detector. on a proposal preparing math and science teachers for middle school, resulting in a five-year NSF grant of $1,199,762. This resulted in both a publication and a masters thesis.

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UNCF Spotlights HBCUs as Engines of Social Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many HBCU students are first-generation college students and many are Pell Grant recipients from low income families. This includes sponsoring some events, such as the upcoming UNITE conference. Social mobility has become a focal point in measuring and understanding the return on investment for students and their families.