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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Colleges Are More Than Just an Education but a Capital Investment into Our Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As more and more institutions continue to raise tuition to meet rising costs due to dwindling revenue streams and state and federal funding, students are not only looking for value but are hesitant to take on the debt of a college education. Now is the time to network, make contacts, reach out to your alumni and area businesses.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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A small college needs $2.6M to survive. It's raised $178K

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The deadline to raise the $2.6 So far, the college has raised $178,000, according to an email sent to supporters earlier this week. Since then, information has dripped out in twice-monthly community updates—held after the college’s regular Monday public readings of Scripture—and regular emails to alumni.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The consequence: the richest institutions can fully fund the education of lower-income students, while the vast majority of working-class and lower-middle-class undergraduates must take out loans to pay for their education. Swensen, taking advantage of alternate assets, including hedge funds, private equity and natural resources.

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Higher Education Strategic Planning That Drives Growth and Faculty Buy-In: Changing Higher Ed podcast 257 with host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Dr. Andrew Hsu

The Change Leader, Inc.

Rather than introducing immediate top-down changes, he led a full year of strategic planning that included participation from faculty, staff, students, alumni, and governing boards. Dr. Hsu used insights from these industry relationships to guide curriculum focus areas and workforce development efforts at the College of Charleston.

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It’s time for wealthy colleges to share the wealth (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The competition for revenue and wealth began 130 years ago among elite colleges and universities that devised now-conventional practices such as annual alumni funds , national fundraising campaigns and aggressive endowment investing. Government action will not stem the rivalry. Kimball Sarah M. Iler Is this diversity newsletter?: