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Lilly Endowment Awards $100M Grant to United Negro College Fund

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The United Negro College Fund comprises 37 member colleges and universities in support of students’ education and development through scholarships and other programs. United Negro College Fund Inc. The grant is the largest unrestricted private grant UNCF has ever received, according to UNCF President and CEO Dr. Michael L.

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George Washington University Adjunct Faculty to Potentially Receive Raise and Base Salary Increase

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Per that agreement, GW part-time faculty may see their first contractual raise in four years and an increase in base salaries – from $4,467 to $5,000. The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) could give a 10% raise to all regular, or tenure-eligible, part-time faculty starting Spring 2023.

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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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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

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For example, several states continue to use funding formulas that shortchange historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs), denying them resources necessary to provide a quality education to students who have historically faced discrimination and continue to face systemic barriers to success.

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UNCF to Launch Nationwide Walk for Education Fundraising Campaign

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The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) will be kicking off a nationwide Walk for Education fundraising campaign this week. Maurice Jenkins The National UNCF Walk for Education Campaign is seeking to raise at least $2.5 executive vice president and chief development officer at UNCF. Jenkins, Jr., Have fun while doing good!”

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New Report Offers Insight into HBCU ‘Secret Sauce’

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Gregory Price, a professor at the University of New Orleans, and co-author of the working paper “Basically, they induce you to subscribe to a model of leadership development, of character development,” said Dr. Gregory Price, a professor at the University of New Orleans, a co-author of the working paper, and a Morehouse College alum.

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Howard University Takes Affirmative Step, All HBCUs Need More Support

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And despite chronic and discriminatory under-funding, HBCUs have stood as the greatest driver of social and economic mobility of Black Americans in the country. HBCUs receive less than 1% of federal research funding and development grants, and less than their share of state and federal funding overall.