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Princeton Grants Suspended as Federal Pressure on Universities Grows

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Princeton University In a concerning development for research institutions nationwide, Princeton University has become the most recent Ivy League school to have federal funding suspended amid what many academic leaders are describing as an unprecedented federal pressure campaign targeting elite universities.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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These are last-dollar funds, which means it covers a student’s remaining costs for tuition and fees after all other aid—scholarships, grants, stipends and tuition waivers—has been awarded, and it does not cover the cost of housing, food, transportation, books or supplies. “One Dr. Gresham D.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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Dartmouth Launches New Research Institute Focused On Black Diaspora

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Dartmouth College has launched the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life (IBICL), a research center focused on the study of the Black diaspora. The institute is being launched with initial funding of $2.3 million that includes $1 million raised from alums, families, and friends through the Call to Lead campaign.

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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

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Valerie Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at the school. “As As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.

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Pride in the Halls

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The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Bevlee Watford, who earned her undergraduate and graduate degrees at Virginia Tech, CEED has raised awareness about engineering and other technical fields and fueled diversity in the professions. The Center for the Enhancement of Engineering Diversity raises awareness for diversity in engineering and other technical fields.