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Temple gets $11 million gift for students with disabilities

Inside Higher Ed

In addition to paying for career-planning assistance from JEVS, the endowment fund will provide scholarships to students and distribute $450,000 annually to eligible candidates. Temple plans to begin awarding the scholarships this coming fall. million for scholarships for students with disabilities since 1981.

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Statehouses support foster youth with college

Inside Higher Ed

” Some recent efforts to help these students have involved increased funding in the form of state grants for foster youth attending college. ” The grant would be paid for through an expansion of California’s existing Middle Class Scholarship program and could decrease awards for other students by about $61, or 3.5

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

After years of developing student supports, three of the four institutions featured in this article recently received HSI designation and the fourth is moving toward designation. GBC has an endowed scholarship fund from the Goizueta Foundation, and utilizing this fund, GBC began pursuing Hispanic students in the region.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

With the integration of the BSDT, Clark is positioned to empower scholarship, pedagogy and innovation related to creative arts, media, design and technology. Clark honored and matched the financial commitments that Becker made to the students, and the students were not harmed financially in the transfer.

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Community colleges around the country are exploring residential options, developing housing for the first time, or partnering with organizations such as Educational Housing Services (EHS), a New York City nonprofit group that houses students from colleges throughout the city. “As This is a growing interest, it seems, every year.”

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Remembering Dr. Lee Noel

Helix Education

He began his career in higher education at Illinois State as the assistant dean of students and financial aid administrator, and in 1963, became the associate executive director of the Illinois State Scholarship Commission.

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On the offense: A new Trump defamation suit, yet another one threatened, and more! — FAN 352

FIRE

We replaced our digital listserv with what alumni fondly remember as “the Wall” to encourage students to take time to reflect and resolve their differences face-to-face. Forthcoming article on lying and government speech. In this Article, we engage with such questions. New article on free speech theory.