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Brown U Athletes Sue Ivy League Over No-Scholarship Policy

Inside Higher Ed

Two Brown University basketball players have sued the Ivy League over its prohibition on athletic scholarships, alleging the policy amounts to price fixing and denies athletes proper compensation for their services, the Associated Press reported. Robin Harris, the Ivy League executive director, defended the no-scholarship policy.

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College affordability advocates push for a ban on scholarship award displacement at all New Jersey universities

University Business

“I won a scholarship from the Taco Bell Foundation. And when I submitted the check to my university, they decreased my institutional scholarship by half, they increased my federal loans, and eliminated my work study,” Lewis said. “I Michele Johnson has advocated for a ban on scholarship displacement for nearly a decade.

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University of Alabama at Birmingham Awarded $4.6 Million Grant Renewal to Bolster Cybersecurity Workforce Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Yuliang Zheng The Scholarship for Service grant renewal – from the National Science Foundation (NSF) – seeks to help fill the growing need for a national cybersecurity workforce prepared to deal with artificial intelligence and machine learning. million grant renewal to support cybersecurity workforce development programs.

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Hello … Are you there? Or have you gone home for Christmas?

HEPI

Former Unite Foundation scholarship student, and host of the excellent This is Us Podcast, Paige Mackenzie, writes about her reflections on speaking with students on the podcast, and how they’ve said it can feel to be stuck at uni at a time when seemingly everyone is at home with their families. The blog will resume early in 2023.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And as business owners, Latinos made up 50% of net new small businesses from 2007–2017. Undergraduates are most concerned with scholarship opportunities, financial literacy, and paying for their education,” survey conductors reported about the financial needs of Latino students. Encourage research and scholarship on U.S.

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Using Content Disclosures in Our Courses 

Faculty Focus

Boysen, 2017). Renken also works in the Teaching and Learning Center at Kansas State University, where he collaborates with Don Saucier and Ashley Schiffer on the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) projects.  Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 3(2), 163. sexual violence, trauma). Boysen, G. Horwood, N.,

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Ireland’s new International Education Mark to ‘strengthen quality assurance’

The PIE News

The idea of a statutory quality mark has long been floated, dating back to at least 2017. ” The minister will also announce a new Ireland-Korea English Language Student Alumni Network and Student Ambassador Scholarship scheme. Full details of the strategy have not yet been publicly released. .”

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