article thumbnail

Group Files OCR Complaint Over ‘Discriminatory’ Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights discrimination complaint resolution procedures — objects to the university creating, supporting, and promoting the eligibility criterion for the George Floyd Memorial Scholarship, a four-year, full-tuition scholarship.

article thumbnail

State-Awarded Financial Aid Declined Slightly in 2020–21

Inside Higher Ed

State-awarded student financial aid decreased negligibly in 2020–21 to $14.784 billion, down 0.1 billion in 2020–21, a decline of about 1.8 percent from the $14.801 billion awarded in 2019–20, according to the latest annual survey from the National Association of State Student Grant and Aid Programs.

university leaders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Yemen: the globe’s forgotten higher education crisis?

The PIE News

Academic safe havens were identified in Europe, North America and Malaysia, and IIE also placed Yemeni scholars at higher education institutions in Egypt, Jordan and Iraq’s Kurdistan region. As of 2020, about 1,200 Yemeni students were registered at German universities, according to reports.

article thumbnail

U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

Image: Andriyana Baran spent the 2020–21 academic year as a Fulbright scholar in the United States, serving as a teaching assistant and helping to develop online learning curricula for the University of Kansas at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. But when Russia invaded the country last February, she was forced to evacuate.

article thumbnail

Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The nonprofit Partnership With Native Americans , or PWNA, recently announced that the consumer financial services company, Synchrony , has awarded $100,000 to support Indigenous education. Synchrony is providing the grant for 2023 and 2024, through its philanthropic program, Education as an Equalizer. We're proud to support PWNA."

article thumbnail

Working-Class and working in higher education: possibilities and pedagogies

SRHE

It is now accepted that the ‘leaky pipeline’ of academia, whereby ‘non-traditional’ ( eg working-class, BAME) participants remain absent from professorial and higher managerial positions within UKHE is adversely affecting the diversity of scholarship and leadership.

article thumbnail

Choosing between earning and learning: a new report on the experiences of estranged students in higher education

HEPI

Education was a significant theme. Our report found that many young people we interviewed failed to get to higher education, or even had the option to go, as a result of their estrangement. They, amongst the interviewees, recollected the experiences that can make higher education so difficult for EYP.