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Believe in Students , a national nonprofit organization founded by Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab, is providing faculty, staff and managers with actionable strategies to address college students’ basic needs. “How the new majority of students attends and experiences higher education is poorly understood by the American public and constantly given short shrift (..)

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In addition to the scholars program, Fidelity’s initiative – Invest in My Education (ME) – will also include retention and completion grants for students at risk of dropping out due to financial reasons, and grants to bolster nonprofit organizations aiming to improve graduation rates of underserved students.

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The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. Distinguished Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law and, in 2016, co-founded Opportunity Institute with Ann O’Leary, who served as chief of staff to California Gov.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2024

ED plans to deploy support from the office of Federal Student Aid and nonprofit organizations to lower-resourced colleges as part of its FAFSA College Support Strategy. These personnel will conduct needs-assessments and provide dedicated help to schools that are preparing for, and processing, student aid offer packages.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Upon completion of his doctorate, Reid says he hopes to work in policy research and advocacy either with a nonprofit organization or in government. He will carry a sense of storytelling into policy work because he sees power and impact in these stories. The goal is to influence decision-makers and impact lives.

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Ivonne Diaz-Claisse “I told my story — what it took for me to achieve my dream — and at the end, the students wanted my autograph,” says Diaz-Claisse, president and CEO of Hispanics Inspiring Students’ Performance and Achievement (HISPA), a nonprofit organization based in New Jersey.

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Students at LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Another goal for the future is to use some of her leadership development skills to help nonprofit organizations — “ultimately, down the line when I have a little bit more experience, doing more leadership coaching and coaching leaders through some of their issues that they’re facing,” she says.

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OCTOBER 22, 2022

She serves as the executive director of the International Ultraviolet Association, a nonprofit organization headquartered in the Washington D.C.

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JUNE 2, 2023

A formal list of colleges, universities, and nonprofit organizations investing in and intentionally serving student parents is an important resource for many, said Lewis. The framework consists of four key factors surrounding student parents: the applicant’s data; policies; faculty, staff, and hiring practices; and campus culture.

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JULY 9, 2024

Stout, chair of the Belk Center Advisory Board and president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a nationwide nonprofit organization dedicated to student success in community colleges. “In In 2018, I was watching and noticing that, while we were seeing gains in student success, it wasn’t at a steep, accelerated rate.

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MARCH 6, 2024

That’s why Excelencia has issued four new reports in its continuing investigation into the relationship between institutions, Latinx students, and the workforce.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

AccessLex Institute, a nonprofit organization that advocates access to legal education, released its biannual summary of demographic, financial, and academic data about U.S. Some measures of academic success also declined for law students of color in 2023. law students and applicants.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Occidental College has settled with two nonprofit organizations focused on combating antisemitism over a federal Office for Civil Rights complaint that the campus was a hostile environment for Jewish and Israeli students in the weeks and months following Hamas’s Oct.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Education Northwest, an Oregon-based nonprofit organization promoting education for all, unveiled the results on Tuesday of a first-of-its kind, nine-year study of the partnership between Tacoma Community College (TCC) and the Tacoma Housing Authority (THA), called the College Housing Assistance Program (CHAP).

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MARCH 18, 2024

“While American women have advanced in the last 175 years, we haven’t come close to achieving equity,” said Laura Rebell-Gross, senior managing director of Girls’ Education with the Student Leadership Network, a nonprofit organization working for educational equity.

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MARCH 31, 2024

DREAM — the signature annual event of Achieving the Dream — a nonprofit organization that works to close achievement gaps, has become the go-to convening for community college educators and policymakers interested in institutional change. Lumina Foundation CEO Jamie Merisotis delivers a keynote address at the DREAM 2024 conference.

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JULY 3, 2024

Lewis said that Generation Hope will cultivate leaders who can expand on the mission and dedicate themselves to the organization's Race Equity Blueprint, which acknowledges systemic racial inequity. The nonprofit organization plans to continue expanding its own workforce.

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JULY 5, 2024

“It’s been an incredibly challenging and chaotic year in student loan space,” said Persis Yu, deputy executive director and managing counsel at the Student Borrower Protection Center, a nonprofit organization working to eliminate student debt. It’s been incredibly hard for borrowers to get good, accurate information.”

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JANUARY 17, 2024

a Black and Southeast Asian nonprofit organization that works with low- to no-income communities of color. “I fell in love with Madison and my department and my academic community, so I have been here for the last 12 years,” says Lopez. Shortly after she arrived to Madison, Lopez got involved with Freedom, Inc.,

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Center for Nonviolent Social Change, a nonprofit organization founded by King’s widow, Coretta Scott King, as a living memorial to King’s philosophies and dedication to progress. Center for Nonviolent Social Change. Graves is the chief research, education and program officer at The Martin Luther King, Jr.

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JULY 18, 2023

Supreme Court’s decision to strike down affirmative action in college admissions in June has left universities, nonprofit organizations, Richard Kahlenberg and other higher education stakeholders with a single question: What are the best paths forward?

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JUNE 19, 2023

Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a nonprofit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix,

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JULY 25, 2024

The goal can be achieved by mirroring the systems of support that increased the proportion of Native American lawyers in the U.S., which moved the needle significantly from the 1970s to today, increasing the number of Native attorneys from a few dozen to 2,500.

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APRIL 26, 2024

For Charlie Baker, there are a lot of things similar about being a governor and the president of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) — the nonprofit organization that regulates student athletics at about 1,100 schools across the nation.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

These are the latest numbers from 62% of institutions that report to the National Student Clearinghouse, an educational nonprofit organization which collects data and offers insights from 97% of all postsecondary institutions in the U.S. since last fall.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Terrell (MCT) Educational Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting excellence in student affairs. She has demonstrated tireless professional service in complex administrative roles while maintaining a robust research agenda.”

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Coleman says that the initiative began with a partnership with Braven, a national nonprofit organization that helps college students develop a path to economic mobility. All the tools that you can add to your tool belt help you in effecting that change.”

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FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The College Board, a nonprofit organization that administers the SAT, has been accused of racism since its inception. In 1901, the Board was created in order to standardize college admissions across the United States.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2023

MyFutureNC, a statewide, nonprofit organization led through cross-sectional collaboration, set a goal to see two million North Carolinians aged 25 to 44 attain an industry-valued credential or postsecondary degree by the year 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

8 percentage points, as calculated by the National Student Clearinghouse, a nonprofit organization that collects enrollment data for almost all U.S. NISS has raised graduation rates by an average of 4.5 percentage points — four times better than the national average of.8 postsecondary institutions.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. Manhattan College has been classified as an emerging HSI for years, says Roy.

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Legislators in Idaho are questioning a plan by the University of Idaho to create a nonprofit organization to manage the assets of the University of Phoenix, KTVB7 News reported.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. Moore is the Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor in materials science and engineering at the university’s Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering. She is also the founder and president of Moore Wealth, Inc.,

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JUNE 5, 2023

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations. We take a look at institutions that have excelled at graduating a diverse student base.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Upon completion of his doctorate, Reid says he hopes to work in policy research and advocacy either with a nonprofit organization or in government. He will carry a sense of storytelling into policy work because he sees power and impact in these stories. The goal is to influence decision-makers and impact lives.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

These jobs may be in hospitals as well as in local health departments or nonprofit organizations. Charles says those individuals will be employable as community health workers with frontline, in-demand jobs such as translators, hospital employees, and patient advocates.

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