Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2025

The foundation will distribute $935,000 in grants to 10 local nonprofits in San Diego providing services including tutoring, counseling, and college application assistance. Founded in 1975, SDF has granted $1.8 Recipients include A Step Beyond, Barrio Logan College Institute, and First Gen Scholars, each receiving $125,000 annually.

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OCTOBER 28, 2024

The National Clearinghouse data already shows that at four-year colleges with high shares of Pell Grant recipients, freshman enrollment is declining by more than 10 percent. Double the Pell Grant and Tie It to Inflation : Policymakers should not only double the Pell Grant but tie it to inflation so that it maintains its purchasing power.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2024

That’s the findings from a new Privacy Rights Clearinghouse report, funded by a Michelson 20MM grant. College students are paying twice for their education: once in tuition and again with their privacy. The report uncovers “troubling gaps in data privacy for students using digital learning tools in higher education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

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. Students and their families don’t understand the inner workings.”

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NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Among the topics addressed in the online survey are the impact the FAFSA delays had on the fall 2024 class, financial aid distribution, and the number of students receiving a Pell Grant award. The repercussions from this rollout will be felt – by students, families, and institutions – for years.”

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MARCH 28, 2025

Perhaps most significantly, Latino students are more than twice as likely to receive grants (67%) than take out loans (27%), indicating a strong preference for aid that doesn't require repayment. For state grants, 16% of Latino students received need-based grants compared to only 2% who received merit-only grants.

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JULY 1, 2025

Multiple funding sources support these programs, including Department of Labor Apprenticeship Grants, Perkins Career and Technical Education funds, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act funds, and philanthropic grants focused on racial equity and workforce development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The CCAMPIS program allows colleges to use grant funding to subsidize child care costs for Pell Grant-eligible students, support campus-based or community-based child care programs, provide before or after-school services, or offer student support like financial and career counseling.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

I think the most important piece to this was we didnt ask for the planning grant, remembers Curry. We went directly for the project funding grant. Once Compton College gathered all of the data and support they needed, college leaders submitted a proposal. Curry, however, was intentional about the request.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MARCH 4, 2025

The recent cancel lation of critical grants and contracts at the Institute for Education Sciences (IES) jeopardizes the future of congressionally mandated and statistically robust surveys on postsecondary education experiences and outcomes. Without NPSAS, these affordability gaps would remain hidden.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

million grant from T.D. million grant will lay the groundwork for an innovative mixed-use development that not only provides essential services and resources but also strengthens the college’s long-term vision for community impact. Thanks to a $1.5 PQC is the only minority-serving, federally recognized Work College in the nation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2025

From the rise of anti-DEI rhetoric to the elimination of critical educator preparation grants and the erosion of support for education research at the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), the pattern is clear: dismantle the very systems designed to ensure equity and opportunity in education. That future is now at risk.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 2, 2025

The BeyGOOD Foundation recently announced a $100,000 grant to support the Ocean of Soul Marching Band, furthering the Houston native's dedication to empowering HBCU students and preserving the rich musical traditions these institutions represent. The grant represents part of Beyoncé's ongoing philanthropic efforts supporting HBCU communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 21, 2025

Nine Senate Democrats have signed on as co-sponsors, including Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Cory Booker (D-N.J.), and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.).

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MARCH 17, 2025

Additionally, each student covered under the expanded free tuition policy will receive a $2,000 start-up grant in their first year to help with move-in costs and other expenses related to transitioning to college and a $2,000 launch grant during their junior year to help support their transition post-graduation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

In 2015, UNCF received a $50 million grant from the Lilly Endowment Inc. During her tenure at Wilberforce University, a CPI partner, the school received a $1 million CPI grant to support student career programming.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Other vulnerable groups also showed elevated rates of basic needs insecurity: 67% of parenting students experienced housing insecurity 72% of former foster youth faced housing insecurity 36% of students involved with the carceral system experienced homelessness 62% of students with disabilities reported basic needs insecurity 52% of Pell Grant recipients (..)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Montana State University President Waded Cruzado has been named the next president of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU), marking a Dr. Waded Cruzado historic appointment as she becomes the first Latina to lead the organization.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2025

In 2022, while directing a fully grant-funded Teacher Residency Program, Burrell-Craft received the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) Best Practice Award in Support of Multicultural Education and Diversity.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 2, 2025

That legislation eliminated dozens of questions from the FAFSA and provided a simpler measure to determine whether students will receive the maximum or minimum Pell Grant. Those grants are intended to “support the participation of low-income parents in postsecondary education through the provision of campus-based child care services.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Palmer, chair and professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the university. Howard reaching R1 status is phenomenal.

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MAY 2, 2025

According to the filing, the NEH has suspended entire divisions, initiated firing 65 percent of its staff, and halted numerous grant programs in recent weeks. These actions have occurred despite Congress having already allocated funding to the agency through its normal appropriations process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

These types of Native American tuition waivers or programs are a great step, particularly for our state institutions and land grant institutions, to recognize their foundation and history that is often based on the dispossession of land for Indigenous people and tribal nations,” says Shotton in an interview with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

According to the report, the HEERF funding model was groundbreaking in three key ways: it represented an unprecedented federal investment in community colleges, it based allocations partially on Pell Grant recipients, and it included special funding for institutions serving students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. The grant is a California Student Aid Commission program.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

While at the helm of Clinton College, he has helped the institution secure millions of dollars in grants for new programming and presided over the transition of the school from a a two-year school to a four- year college. “Dr. Both institutions are historically Black colleges and universities.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

MARCH 3, 2025

Heres a few key terms that you need to know when it comes to loans, grants, and work-study! Grants: Grants are probably the most exciting part of your financial aid package because they dont have to be paid back! If you qualify for a Pell Grant, you could receive a substantial amount of aid.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Although they still utilize grades, these initiatives grant high school students access to real college courses, helping them build early success and experience in higher education. Dual enrollment programs present another compelling solution. Rather than just assessing readiness, these programs help ensure it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

She says that having access to grant and external funding has been critical to her continuing and persisting in her work, and she encourages others who do similar research to shore themselves up similarly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2025

Since 2019, the program has seen dramatic growth, supported by grants from the Mellon Foundation and the Ascendium Education Group. These success stories underscore the program's value in developing academic research and analytical skills that can serve as important bridges to life after incarceration. Today, more than 95% of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

Black law students receive the highest average total aid packages at $54,200, but 87% of this amount comes in the form of federal loans rather than grants. In comparison, white students receive aid packages averaging $39,400, with 55% in federal loans and 36% in institutional grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

This year, there were over 60 sessions, including a session focused on grant writing and building the pipeline of the African American male from PreK through the college presidency. “It “And a lot of time, we don’t have enough reporting from on the ground on what’s going on in urban education.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

Title: Associate Professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Tenured: Yes Age: 36 Education: B.A., Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

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MARCH 3, 2025

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

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. O Joshua Williams n a busy Monday morning at the beginning of the Fall semester, Maria came into my office looking for support to purchase textbooks.

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MAY 27, 2025

million in 1890 Land-Grant Universities underscores the importance of these institutions in addressing the nations agricultural challenges and promoting food security. In the realm of agriculture, HBCUs have played a vital role in advancing research and education. Department of Agricultures recent investment of $30.8

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