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Pima Community College Receives Nearly $1.5 Million to Support Low-Income and First-Generation Students with STEM

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Department of Education (ED), which it will use to serve low-income and first-generation students interested in science, technology, engineering, or mathematics (STEM) degrees from select high schools. Pima Community College has received nearly $1.5 million from the U.S.

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ETS Rolls Out Scholarships for Students Demonstrating Excellence

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Those seniors from TCHS will receive financial aid for a two- or four-year accredited, not-for-profit postsecondary institution – $5,000 in two payments for those attending a two-year community college and $10,000 in two payments for those attending a four-year school. university during the next academic school year.

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Experts Gathered to Discuss Challenges Facing Higher Education

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Most people don’t realize that financial aid is a line item in a budget, and it, like everything else, is funded by the same source: tuition,” said Fleming. One of the only mechanisms you have to increase financial aid is to increase tuition. It’s a completely diabolical, upward spiral.

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Promise to Promise Offers Seamless Transfer and Free Tuition for San Antonio Seniors

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Nearly half of Alamo College’s Promise Scholars are studying science, education, technology, and mathematics (STEM) related fields, and 88% of Promise Scholars moving on to four-year degrees are students of color. Ninety-eight percent of his students receive some form of financial aid.

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Emerging Scholars Express Hope, Validation, and Drive During Webinar

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Dr. Luis Antonio Leyva, an associate professor of mathematics education and STEM higher education at Vanderbilt University, said he “decentered” himself in his research lab and instead sought to highlight different perspectives and interdisciplinary strengths from others.

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Stop Cooling Out the Next Generation’s Aspirations

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In a sample of 515 math majors across the country, women were more likely to report that GRE requirements deter them from applying to graduate mathematics programs. Recruitment involved more than competitive financial aid packages, glossy brochures, and the shine of rankings.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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He directs the Tapia Center for Excellence and Equity at Rice University, where he has taught, among other subjects, engineering and computational applied mathematics and operations research. “We How is it going to impact financial aid, endowed scholarships that have been based on race and ethnicity? SACNAS filled that hole.