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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. With the reinstatement of Pell Grant eligibility for incarcerated students in July 2023, approximately 760,000 incarcerated people can have college dreams.

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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. Dr. Gresham D.

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How Incarceration Impacts the Basic Needs of Loved Ones & Families

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She had been waiting outside the door before the office opened, anxiously checking her phone for updates on whether her son was going to be granted a hearing date to commute his sentence. Colleges should be leading examples of what it means to recognize the humanity and experiences of these students. Second, collect better data.

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Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students

The University Innovation Alliance

Completion Grants: Innovative Financial Aid for Today's Students. Completion Grants. Student Aid. The University Innovation Alliance (UIA) was honored to partner with The Chronicle of Higher Education for its September 29, 2022 panel discussion on innovative financial aid for today's students.

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Answering Private K-12 Financial Aid Formula FAQs

School & Student Services by Community Brands

According to recent data from the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), roughly one-quarter of students at private day schools received some amount of financial aid over the course of the 2022-23 school year. Let’s look at how to best prepare for and complete financial aid applications.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As it celebrates its 50th anniversary, SACNAS remains rooted in a belief that science cannot be properly taught, researched, or applied to human beings’ daily existence unless scientists bring some essential parts of their background and worldview to that sphere. “They were interweaving cultural identity with the journeys people were on.”

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The Kresge Foundation Awards Scholarship America $150,000 Technology Development Grant

Scholarship America

Scholarship America, the nation’s largest scholarship provider, is proud to announce that The Kresge Foundation has awarded our organization a $150,000 12-month technology development grant. ” About The Kresge Foundation The Kresge Foundation was founded in 1924 to promote human progress. For more information visit kresge.org.