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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

Insight Into Diversity

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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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 help students avoid developing bad spending habits that can lead to unpaid debts and other economic hardships, state legislators, colleges, and universities are working to advance financial literacy among young people. Similar legislation, set to take effect in the 2024-2025 school year, has also been mandated in Georgia and Michigan.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., criminology, law & society, University of California, Irvine; M.S., counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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New digital texts shake up monograph publishing (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Is A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures —an interactive, open-access, born-digital monograph developed by Brown University Digital Publications and published in August by MIT Press —the monograph of the future? How is this enterprise sustainable?

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Australia asks universities to show they merit the title

Inside Higher Ed

Quite a lot, if you call yourself a university—a title evoking the pinnacle of higher learning, discovery and dialogue. “University” has meant many things, from a seminary for medieval priests to a finishing school for the aristocracy. First up is Charles Sturt University, whose current registration expires in April.