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A2MEND, University of La Verne Partner to Empower African American Male Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The award facilitates a range of educational pathways, encompassing online, certificate, bachelor's, master's, and doctorate programs. The tuition scholarship award ensures that A2MEND students and staff receive substantial support without compromise. Award amounts will vary depending on program and incoming student status.

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Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning

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Blogs Here’s how to engage your alumni and facilitate lifelong learning 8 tactics to benefit your alumni—and recruit more adult leaners Professional, continuing, and online leaders too often overlook one of the most fruitful recruitment pools: alumni, many of whom are excellent candidates as adult learners. Here’s what to do next.

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Yale Pledges $10M Toward HBCU Partnerships, Following Slavery Apology

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Also, it is set to increase the number of HBCU graduates who participate in post-baccalaureate programs that facilitate opportunities to conduct independent research under the supervision of a faculty member, meet first-year graduate students, and participate in workshops that prepare them for application to Ph.D. programs.

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Alternative Collectives Needed for Proposed Boycott in Florida

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This “carpool” system would consist of two primary components: comparable scholarships and name, image, and likeness (NIL) opportunities. One vehicle for this would be the development of an alternative collective that would facilitate opportunities comparable to what they would have had at UF or FSU.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

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While many of the immediate concerns in postsecondary education arenas are centered on admissions policies and scholarship support, the potential damage of eliminating affirmative action extends to employees across higher education and beyond. We cannot support people if we do not know what they need.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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These concerns are not new; Tinto’s (1993) and Tracey and Sedlacek’s (1984) groundbreaking studies and theoretical scholarship remain relevant today. P-12 school systems should partner with local colleges, universities, and vocational schools to facilitate visits to demystify the postsecondary experience.

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Unboxed: The Art of Fighting Off Limiting Labels

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For the survival of my athletic scholarship, I acquiesced to the shooting guard label and suppressed my ball handling ability and point guard skills. I resigned myself to being a three-point specialist which ultimately kept me on the court and got me two athletic scholarships to two different institutions. You can define a position.