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Marquette University Receives $1.25 Million to Bolster Prison Education Program

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Marquette University recently received over a million dollars from the Mellon Foundation to further energize and grow its prison education program. The program is headed by two organizations housed within Marquette’s Center for Urban Research, Teaching, & Outreach (CURTO).

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Dr. Blanca Elizabeth Vega, Montclair State University

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She is an associate professor and graduate program coordinator for the MA in Higher Education at Montclair State University. from the prestigious Higher and Postsecondary Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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UW Gets Google Gift to Diversify Computer Science Education

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The University of Washington (UW) and Google have announced a $400,000 gift from the tech giant that will go towards efforts to diversify the field of K-12 computer science education. west regional lead, tech education outreach & partnerships at Google. “It Computer science is one of America’s most critical fields.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

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“One of the biggest holes that we had in this educational pipeline was the validation, the exposure to role models,” she says. Mission HISPA seeks to inspire Latino students to discover their potential and to ignite their desire to embrace education and achieve success. We continue that with programs in high school and in college.”

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Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

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The nonprofit Partnership With Native Americans , or PWNA, recently announced that the consumer financial services company, Synchrony , has awarded $100,000 to support Indigenous education. Synchrony is providing the grant for 2023 and 2024, through its philanthropic program, Education as an Equalizer.

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FASHP Declares A National Crisis in Low Number of Men of Color in Health Care Professions

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The numbers indicate a lack of diversity that will negatively impact public health, education, economic stability, and the availability and quality of healthcare for all U.S. West, secretary for FASHP and president of the American Dental Education Association. communities. Of more than 6,500 2021 U.S. dental school graduates, 48.4%

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Report Shows Increases in Retention and Persistence

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percentage points from our fall 2020 cohort to our fall 2022 cohort,” said Matos. for the fall 2020 cohort to 55.4% “We’re happy to share that our one-year retention has increased overall 2.3 For Black and Hispanic males, those increases are larger. Our one-year retention rate for Black males over that same period increased from 47.4%