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UC Berkeley Receives $1.2M in Support of Educational Diversity

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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. Young About $1.2

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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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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. The program is meant for students who are enrolled in any level of high school.

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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. Early response to the program has been strong. Already, I’ve had students asking me, ‘I’m a junior, can I still do this?’” The program offers multiple entry points.)

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Developing Leaders

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program, a graduate assistant position opened at IIT. 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.

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University of Arizona Receives $1.6M to Support Indigenous Nursing Students

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Timian Godfrey The grant is expected to fund the Indians in Nursing: Career Advancement and Transition Scholars Program for five years, providing as many as six Indigenous students at the nursing college with financial support for tuition, fees, and a living stipend.

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UNCF Summit for Black Higher Education: Hit the Target!

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All discussions proceeded from the perspective of HBCU assets, rather than deficits wrought by the cumulative effects of historic underfunding and its adverse impact on academic program development and implementation. But I recently attended a national event that is indelibly etched in the crevices of my memory.