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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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from the prestigious Higher and Postsecondary Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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

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Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. We're proud to support PWNA."

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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%

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

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Some of the effects FASHP members have made to remedy this issue include the 2020 AAMC Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine ; a two-day ADEA summit to develop solutions to HUMOC scarcity; and the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP).

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With Pell Grants Expanding to the Incarcerated, Experts Say Prisons Need To be Less Restrictive of Students

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When Congress voted in December 2020 to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated Americans after a 26-year ban, advocates hailed the move as an opportunity for 760,000 people in prison to achieve a better life through education. Sometimes educational programs can feel like a low priority, derailed by clerical errors and staffing issues.

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The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education programs, according to presidents and provosts

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The 4 biggest challenges facing graduate and adult education programs, according to presidents and provosts. The pressure is on for graduate programs. identified "limited budget" as a top challenge to growing graduate and adult education programs. -->. And graduate and adult-serving units have not been immune.