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UC Berkeley Receives $1.2M in Support of Educational Diversity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million in state funding has been awarded to the University of California Berkeley School of Education to provide tuition assistance for aspiring school leaders from underrepresented backgrounds to pursue an advanced degree and administrative credential with the Principal Leadership Institute and Leadership Support Program.

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UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education: Hit the Target!

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Having spent more than a half-century as a faculty member, administrator, and advocate in higher education, I lost count a long time ago of the number of meetings I have attended, as well as the number of speeches and presentations I’ve made, all of which I gifted to the Indiana University Archives.

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How micro-credentials can lower costs and boost workforce opportunities

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A Manhattan Institute report , “How Micro-credentials are Revolutionizing the Higher Education Business Model,” examines how states are investing in the short-term programs that now appeal to high school students and non-enrolled adults ages 18 to 30. Providing grants to institutions for program development.

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Pepperdine University Professor Seeks to Give High School Students a Head Start

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A Pepperdine University professor has been working on a pilot instructional program to give high school students a head start when it comes to understanding math. Now, approaching its second year, the program has gained momentum. Berea College education studies chair Dr. Nicholas Hartlep agrees. He also stressed that the U.S.

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Alabama A&M Launches Effort to Combat Racial STEM Teacher Gap

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AAMUTeach is Alabama A&M’s adaptation of the UTeach Institute’s program, developed 25 years ago on UTexas’s Austin campus. Although HBCUs make up just 3% of colleges in the US, they produce nearly a quarter of Black students with STEM bachelor’s degrees and a quarter of Black students with bachelor’s degrees in education.

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Trust and Transparency

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To do so, she focused on long-standing issues like program development and student support services, and by the time the Coast Community College District Board of Trustees approved her permanent position, progress was tangible. GWC has invested in non-credit career and technical education courses as well as a non-credit health program.

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Developing Leaders

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Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities. Previously, she had worked outside jobs to support herself.