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Over 100 Organizations Urge Congress to Reverse Federal Education Grant Cancellations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy A coalition of 104 education organizations has called on Congress to immediately reverse the Department of Education's recent cancellation of several major teacher preparation grant programs, a move that has disrupted educator pipelines across the country and threatens to worsen the national teacher shortage crisis.

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States Receive $179M Investment to Improve Literacy, Assessments

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Miguel Cardona Funding to the tune of $179 million in new grants is now available to help improve literacy and academic achievement nationwide, according to officials from the U.S. The new Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grant is $149 million to be awarded to 23 states to advance effective, evidence-based literacy practices.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

If you're going to go take geometry in the fall, we'll go ahead and teach you geometry in the summer, so that when you get to the fall course, this is not your first time seeing the material. 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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Young Black Men Project, Fitting in for Black Men, Boys Showcased at BMRI’s Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 30, 2023

million grant from the Andrew W. Stevenson's presentation focused on racial literacy regarding fitting in and belonging for Black men and boys. Funded by a $1.4 Howard Stevenson, Constance Clayton Professor of Urban Education and Director of the Racial Empowerment Collaboration at the University of Pennslyvania.

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Panel Spotlights Registered Apprenticeships at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

And in recent years, Registered Apprenticeship (RA) programs have grown, increasing 73% since 2 009 and expanding past traditional trades into areas like teaching, social work, and cybersecurity. And thanks to a grant from Sound Transit, tuition, normally $5,000, is waived. The first cohort gra duated in fall 2021.

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. She has partnered with FOSSI, or the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative, to give financial literacy workshops to FOSSI scholars. It also allowed me to teach and connect with students even if it was online,” she continued. “I

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Community College Incarcerated Reentry Programs: Looking Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Early prison education programs were led by religious reformers like the Quakers who brought literacy and moral education to the Walnut Street Prison in post-revolutionary Philadelphia. College-in-prison programs flourished in the 1970’s and 1980’s after the 1965 Higher Education Act made people who were incarcerated eligible for Pell Grants.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Edward’s University St.

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10 Ways to Prepare Students for Next Steps

Student Research Foundation

DECEMBER 1, 2023

But regardless of which classes you teach, there are plenty of ways to help your students with their college essays. Consider including technology and digital literacy in your classroom. Doctors still have to write grant proposals and authors still have to understand sales numbers.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Department of Education for a program to teach K-12 teachers about civics, history, and media literacy. Teachers who have been hired to teach history and social studies in [high-poverty schools] may not have had much coursework in history, civics and media literacy themselves or training in how to teach these subjects,” Harris said.

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How to Budget Money on a Low Income [Guide for College Students and Fresh Grads]

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AUGUST 10, 2022

In this blog post, we’re gonna teach you how to budget money on a low income by sharing our favorite budgeting strategies that go beyond the common advice you may be used to (e.g. But, for many people, things like a lack of financial literacy and a poor money mindset play a role. Do you know how to do that? We got you!

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How the Work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was About Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

This analogy highlighted the disparity between the rights and opportunities granted to white Americans and the ongoing systemic oppression faced by Black Americans. These included poll taxes, discriminatory qualification tests, literacy exams, morality requirements, property ownership requirements, and voter voucher laws.

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Funding at Risk: How AANAPISI Programs Transform Student Lives

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

I have met so many amazing people who continue to teach me new things and push me to be a better person, says Sarrol, who now serves as a peer mentor in the program. The department administers grants for AANAPISIs and MSIs. As a visiting professor, Rahman also teaches a similar course called Critical Muslim Studies.

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