Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 30, 2023

How it works: Each year, rising juniors in CSTEP apply for a scholarship from the fund. After, CSTEP staff select the nine scholarship recipients for the upcoming academic year. “The spirit of the scholarship is to enrich the student experience,” Alba says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) has received $190 million, its largest philanthropic corporate gift, for a scholarship program. Pamela Everhart The money – from Fidelity Investments – will go towards launching the Fidelity Scholars Program, which will have renewable, need-based scholarships and wrap-around support services.

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ACPA

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Announcing the 2024 ACPA Membership Scholarship Recipients from CGDSD. Each year the CGDSD provides two (2) one-year, ACPA membership scholarships to individuals working in the field of student affairs/services outside of the United States. The post (Blog) 2024 ACPA CGDSD Membership Scholarship Recipients first appeared on ACPA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2024

has awarded a $100 million unrestricted grant to support the United Negro College Fund’s capital campaign. The United Negro College Fund comprises 37 member colleges and universities in support of students’ education and development through scholarships and other programs. United Negro College Fund Inc.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 21, 2024

Rhodes College will unveil and dedicate its new National Pan-Hellenic Council Plaza on March 23, at 11 a.m., In 2022, a group of students made a request to Rhodes College President Dr. In 2022, a group of students made a request to Rhodes College President Dr. Jennifer Collins for the physical site. “It

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 18, 2024

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). We are invigorated and inspired by this incredible act of generosity,” said Helene Gayle, president of Spelman College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 10, 2024

Over the past decade, Black college and university enrollment has been dropping at alarming rates, declining 22% from 2010 and 2020. Supreme Court decision removing race as a consideration in college admissions. We can expect this recession of Black enrollment to continue in the wake of the recent U.S. Dr. Harry L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

The United Negro College Fund is celebrating its 80 years as the nation’s leading advocate for education equity and economic mobility. The organization notched the milestone anniversary with various activities April 25 that included a 24-hour radio-thon hosted by the FM Omni-Channel Radio Station , which dedicated the day’s broadcast to UNCF.

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University Business

JULY 13, 2023

When College Promise first set out to make postsecondary education as affordable and accessible as public high schools, it started with 53 programs. Today, free college programs have proliferated to 425 different initiatives, spanning all 50 states.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The University of La Verne is joining the African American Male Education Network & Development Organization (A2MEND) in a partnership aimed at fostering educational opportunities and supporting the academic journey of its students and members.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

The College Board will have to pay a $750,000 settlement with the New York Attorney General’s Office, which said the organization unlawfully shared students’ personal data with organizations such as colleges and scholarship programs. Read more from The Journal News.

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Inside Higher Ed

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Join us at the next national Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) conference plenary session for a fascinating look into future thinking and the art of crafting effective scholarship agreements. Donors may have many wishes about who receives their scholarships and how the selection process is handled. see below).

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University Business

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Colleges and universities itching to strengthen their students’ workforce readiness may seek to partner with employers. However, Devon Player, a 2023 graduate of Whitman College (Wash.), owes her budding career for the Walla Walla Community Council to the work of the college’s career and community engagement center.

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University Business

OCTOBER 12, 2023

A news release stated the Stillman College Cybersecurity Center received $500,000 in grant funding and additional support from Google’s Cybersecurity Clinics Fund. The post Stillman College Cybersecurity Center receives additional support from Google appeared first on University Business. Read more from WVTM 13.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

The New York Knicks partnered with Verizon to honor historically Black college and universities (HBCUs) Mar. 27, with one 18-year-old high school senior from Harlem receiving a scholarship, Patch reported. Her $60,000 Garden of Dreams Inspire Scholarship will go towards attending an HBCU of her choice.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 20, 2024

A special kind of energy comes with doing something no one else has, and it’s buzzing around California State University, Sacramento (Sacramento State), this spring as early applications are being reviewed for the inaugural cohort of 70 students who will enroll in the trailblazing Black Honors College (BHC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

California College of the Arts (CCA) will receive $4.7 million from four organizations to support diversity, equity, and innovation in the arts and design fields. That portion of gifts will fund three scholarship programs for enrollment of more than 20 students from diverse backgrounds to pursue arts and design degrees. “At

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Blogs Adult learners: who they are and what they want from college Across the last few years, colleges and universities have increasingly prioritized adult learner enrollment to offset declining undergraduate enrollment and diversify revenue streams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2023

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) have been in existence for over 50 years, serving not only Native American and Alaskan Native students but anyone from the rural communities where they reside. The 35 TCUs in the U.S. train future teachers, nurses, engineers, and more. and improve American lives with progressive ideas.

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EAB

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Blogs Why Enroll360 Match’s partnership with Naviance will transform college admissions With overall college enrollment continuing a decade-long pattern of decline, much has been said about the need to break down barriers inherent to the traditional admissions model. But these programs do not go far enough.

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Helix Education

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

What interferes with students completing a college application? The college application process is a pivotal and often overwhelming experience for high school students. Recognizing the challenges that prospective students face, colleges have a unique opportunity to support and guide applicants through the application experience.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. We are grateful for support from the Mellon Foundation,” said Dr. Jennifer Collins, president of Rhodes Colleges.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Facing a national shortage of early childhood educators , the Community College of Vermont (CCV) and the Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) have teamed up for an innovative solution: paying students to reduce their hours at their jobs in favor of taking more classes. SVMC’s initial idea was to fund scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5% of LGBTQ people reported hearing slurs, and 10.3%

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Press Release PowerSchool and EAB Partner to Simplify College Admissions and Expand College Access for Millions of Students Users of the Naviance platform will now have easier access to offers of college admission and financial aid via EAB’s Concourse technology September 12, 2023 FOLSOM, CALIF.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

A prominent lens into how deeply this perspective is ingrained into our governmental framework is college athletics. Though the growth of college athletics as a business sector has expanded substantially in the past several decades, this practice has even older roots.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is the latest entity to dismiss standardized testing as a core requirement for student-athletic scholarships. The NCAA, along with several other colleges and universities , relaxed its testing requirements during the pandemic due to a lack of infrastructure and resources to support it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2024

Achieving the Dream (ATD) has announced that eight ATD Network community college students were chosen as 2024 DREAM Scholars, including one Tribal College and University student, one student from a college within the South African Siyaphumelela Network, and one student from a Gateway to College program. Dr. Karen A.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 16, 2024

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF) recently received a $100 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc., marking the largest unrestricted private donation in the organization’s history. Lomax in a statement.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

Four years ago, I wrote a column about sending my son off to college and my fears for him as a young Black man finding his way as a student and citizen. Today, I’m the proud mom of a college graduate. In Texas, a ban on DEI initiatives and offices at publicly funded universities and colleges took effect Jan.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 31, 2023

Image: Lebanon Valley College in Pennsylvania hosted a full-day advising and career exploration event in lieu of classes on March 21, giving students an opportunity to access resources and develop their success plans. The college offered students an event attendance incentive: a chance to win a $500 scholarship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 15, 2023

Gonzalez is one of a growing number students who has been forced to alter her college plans out of concern for her well-being. Bodell, who is non-binary and wants to be a sound designer or voice actor, had planned to apply to Ringling College of Art and Design in Florida. “A Echo Bodell is another.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 31, 2023

The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Alabama at Birmingham has been awarded a $4.6 Recipients must complete an internship and work for a federal, state, local, or tribal government organization in a cybersecurity-related position for a period equal to the length of the scholarship after graduation.

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Insight Into Diversity

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Willis Scholarship Program, which launched at the start of the 2016-2017 academic year, provides scholarships to Connecticut students from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. It exemplifies the powerful impact of collaboration between higher education institutions and organizations to support underserved students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The American Association of Colleges and Universities ( AAC&U ) has announced the 2024 recipients of the annual K. A past annual conference hosted by the American Association of Colleges and Universities. Patricia Cross Future Leaders Award.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

SUNY Westchester Community College and MDRC, a social policy research organization, released the results of a new study Thursday, which found that students in the college’s student support program enrolled full-time at higher rates and accumulated more credits than their peers. GPA to be eligible. Hide by line?:

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University Business

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The college application process time can be a nerve-wracking time for college hopefuls. However, their chief driver of stress has changed in the past two decades as students nowadays are more preoccupied with the cost of college rather than being denied their first-choice college. Here are three ways to do so.

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