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Temple gets $11 million gift for students with disabilities

Inside Higher Ed

In addition to paying for career-planning assistance from JEVS, the endowment fund will provide scholarships to students and distribute $450,000 annually to eligible candidates. Temple plans to begin awarding the scholarships this coming fall. million for scholarships for students with disabilities since 1981.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Achieving HSI status Larry Eby Larry Eby, executive director of advancement at Goldey-Beacom College (GBC) in Delaware, said several years ago the college’s admissions office saw there was a rising number of Hispanic students pursuing higher education.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges around the country are exploring residential options, developing housing for the first time, or partnering with organizations such as Educational Housing Services (EHS), a New York City nonprofit group that houses students from colleges throughout the city. “As EHS President and CEO Jeffrey H.

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On the offense: A new Trump defamation suit, yet another one threatened, and more! — FAN 352

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We replaced our digital listserv with what alumni fondly remember as “the Wall” to encourage students to take time to reflect and resolve their differences face-to-face. It argues that the current information system is too complex for a simple binary approach to First Amendment theory.

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Inside Higher Ed

” Some recent efforts to help these students have involved increased funding in the form of state grants for foster youth attending college. A total of 389 students received the grant, according to Keith Hovis, director of communications for the state’s Office of Higher Education.

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