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$100 million: The largest single donation in HBCU history goes to Spelman College

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On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. Additionally, this donation rivals that of the $120 donated to Spelman, Morehouse, and the United Negro College Fund by the co-founder of Netflix donated in 2020. which we know today. In 2018, the couple donated $30 million.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that. The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences promotes career readiness skills, so every discipline is developing the students’ verbal and written skills.

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How Gross Inequalities in Institutional Wealth Distort the Higher Education Ecosystem and Shortchange the Vast Majority of Middle- and Lower-Income Undergraduates

Inside Higher Ed

Iler, assistant director of the University of North Carolina’s School of the Arts—answers itself. By way of contrast, consider the University of Pennsylvania’s 2020 pledge to contribute $100 million over 10 years to the Philadelphia School District to renovate decrepit schools.

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Houston is the future; higher ed is stuck in past (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Between 2010 and 2020, the Houston metro area added 1.2 ” The unspoken objective was to demonstrate the value of a liberal arts education in a nation that Freedom House ranks 48th out of 100 (“partly free”) due to limited political rights and civil liberties. million new residents, a 20.3 percent growth rate.