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Private colleges and discount, 2020

Higher Ed Data Stories

The scholarship or aid is just an accounting transaction. If it's funded (that is, some source is providing you the scholarship money, like a funded award), you get the $6M from the student and the $4M from the scholarship source, or the full $10M. So, let's take a look at private college discount rates for 2020.

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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.

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Scholarships attracting African students to Turkey

The PIE News

The numbers have grown to over 60,000 up from around 40,000 since 2019, thanks largely to scholarships by the Turkish government, and are bound to grow even higher in the future as the country intensifies its engagement with Africa. The scholarships could be part of the reason for the growth in enrolment.

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Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship: New, but Growing Rapidly

Inside Higher Ed

The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students.

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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.

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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.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. We're proud to support PWNA."