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Oregon to get portion of $21 billion for early and postsecondary education allocated by Congress

University Business

Nearly $376 million will be funneled into nonprofits, community colleges and universities to provide scholarships for migrant students and seasonal farmworkers and their children to pursue higher education or earn their GED, an alternative to a four-year high school diploma. Read more from the Oregon Capital Chronicle.

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Universities welcome budget to prevent Canadian “brain drain”

The PIE News

Canadian universities have welcomed president Trudeau’s new federal budget announced on April 16, hailing funding boosts for academic research and graduate scholarships and greater support for student housing and mental healthcare. The budget will provide grants of $1.8

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How students spend emergency hardship funding

HEPI

We work with institutions to efficiently manage the distribution of bursaries, scholarships, hardship funds and other financial support so that it almost instantly reaches the students who have been allocated it, freeing up resources – and admin time – for the institutions to focus on student experience and participation rates.

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Historic $100M Grant to UNCF Boosts HBCU Endowments, Financial Stability

Insight Into Diversity

UNCF plans to raise $185 million total to support the campaign, allocating $5 million to each of its member institutions. Our commitment is to generate philanthropic funding to not just increase scholarships but also strengthen HBCUs, raise graduation rates, ensure greater economic mobility and grow endowments at all our 37 member HBCUs.”

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UNCF Report: Endowment Investment Needed at Private HBCUs

Insight Into Diversity

This limitation affects their ability to use endowments effectively, manage risks, and make asset allocation decisions. The study identified four main constraints for HBCU endowment professionals: smaller endowments, limited investment management resources, risk aversion, and smaller alternatives allocations.

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Korea unveils five-year plan to boost int’ls

The PIE News

The plan includes an increase in the quota of government scholarships, which will primarily be aimed at universities outside of larger urban areas and those with STEM programs. Some 2,700 will be allocated exclusively for science students, while up to 6,000 will be available for non-science subjects.

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Ukraine: IIE makes increased commitment

The PIE News

The allocation of funding will benefit 160 students and 50 scholars of the Volodymyr Dahl East Ukrainian National University, one of the colleges most impacted by military operations. The post Ukraine: IIE makes increased commitment appeared first on The PIE News.