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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They are taking responsibility and raising standards.” There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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How Public Universities Can Tackle the Teacher Shortage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million students of color, these institutions can be instrumental in attracting, developing and inspiring the diverse educator corps our nation needs. Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the issues addressed are reading academic text and managing assignments, which can be especially challenging when the students are still developing their command of English. There is a designated recruiter. This recognition] means a lot.”

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Rising Inflation and the Impending Tuition Squeeze

Robert Kelchen

Midyear adjustments in student charges are highly unusual and typically only happen if a state withholds previously promised funding during a recession. This is also the time of year during which many colleges start to develop their proposed rates for tuition, fees, and room and board for the next (2022-23) academic year.

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Legal Expert Art Coleman Examines the Affirmative Action Ruling

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Art previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights, where, in the 1990s, he led the department's development of its Title VI policy on race-conscious financial aid. The Court didn't address financial aid and scholarships. Art, thanks for joining us today.