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Ohio Wesleyan Graduate Makes $12 Million Commitment to Benefit First-Generation Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to scholarship aid, Grissom’s estate gift will provide comprehensive support for first-generation students including room and board and other expenses such as laptops, transportation costs, and medical bills. Ohio Wesleyan is a premier destination for first-generation college students,” said OWU’s President Dr. Matt vandenBerg. “We

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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.

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Cara Vitry (’12 Transportation Design)

College for Creative Study

” The post Cara Vitry (’12 Transportation Design) appeared first on College for Creative Studies. At the end of the day, you want to live a happy life, right? And we go to art and design school to be happy. “Do not be afraid of failure. It’s how you fail that matters.'”

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Alumni Perspective: Sustainability Practices in Spain

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Just ask Catherine, an AIFS Abroad Alumni Ambassador from Seton Hall University who studied abroad in Granada, Spain and is passionate about sustainability: “Studying abroad in Spain greatly broadened my perspective of sustainability. .” Granada, where I lived, was very walkable and I rarely took public transportation.

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We’re very blessed to have a strong, committed, and dedicated alumni board.” If they’re struggling with transportation, they’re still going to struggle with transportation for the last two years of college.” These types of student supports are expensive, however, and may be beyond the means of a typical community college.

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CCS Alumni Honor Former CCS Faculty at Bill Robinson Memorial Car Show

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The post CCS Alumni Honor Former CCS Faculty at Bill Robinson Memorial Car Show appeared first on College for Creative Studies.

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CCS Alumni Come Together in Shanghai & Beijing

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The CCS Alumni Reception in Shanghai on November 26th was a statement of the powerful collaboration between CCS and its international graduates. Together with a smaller size alumni reunion in Bejing a few days before, this alumni event was the first official alumni gathering of CCS in the Asia-Pacific region since 2018.

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