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Foundation Awards $116M Grant to LaGuardia Community College

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The Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation has awarded a grant of $116.2 The collective will include specialized shops, labs, and classrooms for hands-on instruction and training. million to LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, Queens, to create the Cohen Career Collective, a state-of-the-art workforce training center.

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Reminder: Federal Pell Grant Program Reconciliation

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FSA has released additional guidance for when and how financial aid offices should reconcile their institution’s federal Pell Grant funding each year; including the the process for internal as well as external reconciliations.

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Today’s College Students Aren’t Who You Think They Are. Institutions Must Rethink How They Serve Them.

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Some 41% receive Pell Grants, and 13% live in households that receive SNAP benefits. Practices like starting programs quarterly or even monthly and reducing the number of days students must come to campus for hands-on or clinical instruction can better accommodate students’ schedules. Like Aracely, nearly 20% have dependent children.

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Dr. Emily Bouck, Michigan State University

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Emily Bouck is actively involved in grant writing and leads such funded programs. She examines such technological approaches as virtual manipulatives and the virtual manipulative-based instructional sequences. Bouck is published in over 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and has authored six books and over 30 book chapters.

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Morgan State University Wins 2022 ETS/CGS Award for Innovation in Promoting Success in Graduate Education

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The award applauds promising and innovative proposals to improve student success and degree completion at master’s and doctoral levels while promoting inclusiveness, with the winner receiving a two-year, $20,000 matching grant. Its instructional curriculum is built on a series of four courses. “Our

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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

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A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Roberson, who teaches statistics in Pepperdine’s political science program, served as one of the initiative’s teachers, instructing students on algebra.

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ASU Faculty Receive $1.6 Million for Program to Better Teach K-12 Educators about Civics, History, and Media Literacy

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Dr. Lauren Harris The project, Project ACCLaIM: Advancing Civics Curriculum Learning through Instructional Microcredentials, seeks to create a specialization in the aforementioned topics and offer smaller courses that earn teachers microcredentials, which they can then count as credits towards a master’s in education.

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