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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These schools and their leaders have an extraordinary opportunity to work with the federal government to support those students—and it doesn’t require new institutional spending or a new Higher Education Act. In 2018 the U.S. Yet there is an enormous SNAP gap in program utilization.

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Report: HBCU and Tribal Land-Grant Universities Significantly Underfunded

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

However, programs for 1890s allow up to 50% of this state matching requirement to be waived, a practice that many of these schools have had to employ to maintain full funding from the federal level. From 2018 to 2022, six to nine of the 19 1890 institutions requested such waivers each year, according to the report.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Two recent MBA graduates became presidential management fellows, three-year positions with the federal government. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million. After degree completion, undergraduates get positions such as account analysts, managers, contract specialists, and business analysts.

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Hunter College and Former Professor Settle Fraud Lawsuit

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The federal government has settled a lawsuit with Hunter College and a former Hunter professor alleging fraudulent use of grant funding from the National Institutes of Health between 2010 and 2018, according to a statement the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York released Monday.

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Iowa Wesleyan University announces closure

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Reynolds added that if the state had “provided the federal funding as requested and it was used to finance debt or other impermissible uses according to US Treasury guidelines, the state and taxpayers could have been liable for potential repayment to the federal government.”

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Five ways to help students take smart sustainability actions (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

A headline from New York magazine in 2018 is representative, proclaiming, “UN Says Climate Genocide Is Coming. Partner with local governments. ” In today’s media environment, the rhetoric of doom is only a click away. It’s Actually Worse Than That.”

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Australia asks universities to show they merit the title

Confessions of a Community College Dean

In 2018, when the Australian Research Council last conducted the national research evaluation exercise known as Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA), Charles Sturt’s research was judged of world standard in 41 percent of the broad fields assessed. First up is Charles Sturt University, whose current registration expires in April.