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College Fund Offers American Indian Law School Scholarship to Attend Harvard Law

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Indian College Fund has announced its third American Indian Law School Scholarship for a student entering Harvard Law School in the fall of 2024. Samantha Maltais, an enrolled member of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head/Aquinnah on Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, is the current scholarship recipient.

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Point Foundation Increases Support as LGBTQ+ Scholarship Applications Continue to Rise

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Since its inception 21 years ago, the Point Foundation has become the largest scholarship-granting organization for LGBTQ+ college students in the country. In the 2018-2019 academic year, the organization awarded scholarships to 98 students. This year, that number has risen to 552 and is expected to exceed 570 in 2023-2024.

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Share Your Perspectives on the Future of Higher Education and Student Affairs

ACPA

Share Your Perspectives on the Future of Higher Education and Student Affairs As we celebrate the 100th anniversary of ACPA in 2024, ACPA Developments and the ACPA@100 Committee would love to hear your perspectives on the future of higher education and student affairs. Articles can be submitted on a rolling basis.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She would like to see underrepresented and marginalized students thrive and succeed in higher education. Dueñas’ scholarship addresses issues of equity and access in higher education with a focus on sense of belonging and experiences with imposter syndrome among Latinx students attending four-year colleges and universities.

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Building Community through Inclusive Research Guides  

ACRLog

Editor’s Note: Please join us in welcoming Nery Alcivar-Estrella, Reference and Instruction Librarian at California State University, Northridge, as a new First Year Academic Librarian Experience blogger for the 2023-2024 year here at ACRLog. She asks, “How are we decentering, decolonizing, diversifying research practices?”

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Programs on the Rise to Help Younger Generations Achieve Financial Literacy

Insight Into Diversity

To obtain a high school diploma in Florida, students must take a half-credit course on financial literacy and money management beginning in the 2023-2024 school year. Similar legislation, set to take effect in the 2024-2025 school year, has also been mandated in Georgia and Michigan.

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Renaming of the Voices of Inclusion Award to the Nancy J. Evans Voices of Inclusion Award

ACPA

In 2006, Evans was awarded the ACPA Voices of Inclusion Award for her work on social justice in higher education. At Iowa State University, Evans was instrumental in the development of a Higher Education doctoral concentration in Social Justice and infusing a social justice perspective in the master’s program in Student Affairs.