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MAY 8, 2023

The Chinook Nation – its traditional territory includes southwest Washington and northwest Oregon – has not been recognized by the federal government, leaving its 3,000 members out of grant and scholarship offerings for the recognized tribes.

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DECEMBER 27, 2023

it is baffling that the federal government has chosen to target a Christian university that is addressing those issues in very positive ways," the university said in a statement. The Arizona-based university denied what it said were "unsubstantiated allegations" and said it would take all measures necessary to refute them.

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JULY 24, 2024

The exception that proves the rule, Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend has pointed out that unlike every other part of the federal government, the IRS makes virtually no effort to identify — much less to prevent — racial discrimination in its enforcement efforts. Neither Stanford nor the University of Chicago have any.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. But enrollment is just the first step in the journey toward servingness.

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MARCH 25, 2024

Justin Draeger A vendor working for the federal government incorrectly calculated a financial aid formula for more than 200,000 students, the department noted. Department of Education. “It

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

However, she had worked at high levels of the federal government, as a former director of the White House Office of Management and Budget and the former U.S. Burwell has announced that she will step down as president of American University at the end of the upcoming academic year.

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University Business

DECEMBER 12, 2024

For every dollar the federal government invests in childcare for single-mother students, research shows a projected return of 430 percent in increased tax contributions and reduced public assistance. One night, when my daughter was two years old, an infomercial from a for-profit college caught my eye. I felt like giving up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Lhamon, Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights in a letter to the school’s president, Dr. Linda Livingstone. Constitution, as well as Title IX, to conduct its affairs in a manner consistent with its religious beliefs.” He also said that it was the first time that a university had been exempted from sexual harassment claims. “It

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JUNE 20, 2024

which provided him exposure to policy networking with individuals in the federal government. In addition to being a graduate research assistant at Texas, he was part of the Graduate Archer Fellowship Program in Washington, D.C., He currently is also a graduate research assistant with the Center for Community College Student Engagement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Our federal government invests billions of dollars every year in higher education but often isn’t sure if those dollars have achieved their intended impact,” said David Medina , RFA co-founder and chief operating officer. Secretary of Education authority to set aside up to 0.5%

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government and higher education institutions have fed the public a steady diet of bad enrollment news. Public health concerns increased responsibilities to care for and educate school-aged children and disrupted jobs and industries.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Those institutions don’t receive as much research funding from the federal government. of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. The debt load of those who did is disproportionately high. Four research questions were developed. The differential persists in graduate schools. Dr. Lorelle L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 10, 2024

Local, state and federal governments can collect more accurate data they can then use to create policies and dedicate resources to support education and workforce development that meets the needs of their industries and residents. It has been nearly four years since a report revealed that 6.6 The report led to an immediate uproar.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Even when the federal government tries to streamline financial aid, things wind up becoming more complicated. After families fill out the 24-question form (eight questions for students, 16 for parents), Assumption will use the government’s Student Aid Index formula to calculate the amount for which applicants will be responsible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

The federal government made various promises about educating tribespeople, but was more focused on assimilation, an approach nicknamed “Kill the Indian, Save the Man.” Alex Red Corn’s family left the Osage reservation in Oklahoma when he was in elementary school, but he always remained connected to his heritage — somewhat. “I

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JUNE 20, 2024

But public service requires the employers to either be a government organization, federal, state, local or other, or a 501c3 organization,” said Kantrowitz. “[ED] ED] wants to expand it to include all ECE, or more, and so the question they have is, how would they specify under what circumstances should this for-profit employer qualify?”

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FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Burmicky suggested that while students and schools wait for the federal government, institutionsshould proactively communicate to its prospective students to reassure them that their aid packages are still to come and to make them aware of other kinds of institutional and merit-based aid. 30 instead of the usual Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Per federal law, Black students were brought into schools that formerly, predominantly or exclusively served white students, an endeavor that forever changed public schooling in the country. “It That was the job of federal government to ensure that the ruling was followed. Some federal enforcement did still occur.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The federal government and national, regional, and local organizations have weighed in, too. There are many responses to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. People are already declaring a “post-affirmative action era” while still weighing the scales of benefit from new approaches to equity, justice… and admissions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2023

Most receive no money from their home states, and relatively little from the federal government. In an attempt to address this disparity, the Lilly Endowment, has announced a five-year, $38,775,000 grant to the American Indian College Fund, the nation’s largest charity for Native higher education. But TCUs are chronically underfunded.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

As concerns about college affordability and the economic burden of student loan debt grow, some experts say it might be time not only to boost the budget for federal financial aid but also to go back to the drawing board on how that aid is allocated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The NSA is the lead agency in the federal government when it comes to any matters relating to cybersecurity,” Mac Namee said. Metropolitan State University of Denver (MSU Denver) is attempting to bolster diversity in the cybersecurity field through multiple different programs and initiatives. Its relationship with the NSA goes further.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants. The median acceptance rate at bachelor’s degree-granting universities and colleges was 7.6 percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

I wanted to throw the government’s own book right back at them,” said Webb. the involvement of the federal government in the assassinations of Black civil rights leaders, and more. Alton Sterling. Philando Castile. It was July 2016, and the list of Black men and women killed by police had grown by two names in just two days.

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AUGUST 8, 2023

The state of Alabama requested a waiver for approximately $828,000 in state funds for Tuskegee University in 2022, the same year that it gave more than $36 million to Auburn University, its predominantly white flagship school – a seven-to-one ratio for Auburn’s federal allocation for research capacity funding.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Washington has gone from negative to positive to negative to positive again on network neutrality, and advocates for educators say they need to see the federal government commit to making open networks a policy priority. “It

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MARCH 26, 2025

Beyond the headlines, the proposal represents a deliberate dismantling of the federal student aid infrastructure that has long supported students needing help to pay for college. The Federal Student Aid (FSA) office is not just a loan servicer. It plays a central role in ensuring access and accountability in highereducation.

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JANUARY 20, 2024

It’s also a painful reminder that on this day, that honors a man whom the federal government once tried to destroy and who was excoriated by the general populous of the United States, we still are in discussion about the brilliance of Black people. Their point is that the students and graduates of HBCUs are inferior. Dr. Herman J.

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EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

The federal government responded to the changing higher education landscape in the early part of this decade by making significant grant funds available to colleges and universities to promote student safety and help institutions offer remote and hybrid instruction.

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Robert Kelchen

APRIL 29, 2024

I have spent most of the last year digging into the topic of heightened cash monitoring (HCM), perhaps the federal government’s most important tool in its higher education accountability toolbox at this time. HCM places colleges’ federal financial aid disbursements under additional scrutiny in order to protect taxpayer dollars.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

Founded in 1789, UNC would not admit its first Black student until 1955, and only under the force of a federal court order. Here is why this matters. Nikole Hannah-Jones When the U.S. Supreme Court overturned decades of precedent in prohibiting the use of race as a factor for college admissions, it simply returned us to our societal level.

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AUGUST 11, 2023

But there’s more the federal government can do. Department of Education is stepping up with $368 million in new grant funding to aid teacher retention and recruitment and improve diversity. Finally, we must champion the teaching profession. It’s time to dial it down. Education remains critical to our nation.

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APRIL 2, 2023

We’re having discussions with policy makers across the spectrum from state and federal [government] … about the fact that we need to be supporting our students through this journey,” Lee said. Lee said funding needs to be cultivated from hospital systems desirous of building their nursing workforce.

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University Business

MARCH 24, 2025

Hundreds of firings inside the federal governments student aid department have sparked concern among workers and student loan advocates, who warn that the student loan system is at risk. Linda McMahon, the wrestling industry billionaire now serving as education secretary, has presented the sweeping cuts as an efficiency drive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

The federal government projects that more than 203,000 new registered nurse (RN) positions will be created each year from 2021 to 2031, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN). In January, nurses from two of New York City’s private hospitals went on strike.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

While cities have made great strides in preparing for the extremes of climate change, and local, state, and federal governments are paying more attention to the growing crisis, more needs to be done to protect and reach out to marginalized and vulnerable populations, said Monteblanco.

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