Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2023

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) which represents public Historically Black Colleges and Universities and Predominantly Black Institutions, is partnering with cosmetics company Ivy Beauty to create a scholarship program. Applications for the program opened Jun. 5, with a deadline of Jul.

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Insight Into Diversity

MARCH 5, 2024

Supreme Court’s (SCOTUS) banning of race-conscious admissions last summer, some colleges and universities are considering the legality of certain diversity-focused scholarships. Given SCOTUS’s past rulings, some legal experts argue that diversity scholarships could be the next DEI component on the chopping block.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

A national scholarship program for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) is set to be launched. The program aims to help financially support civic-minded high school students who are interested in attending HBCUs. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Eighteen students from across the nation were awarded scholarships by ETS at its annual scholarship reception on the ETS campus in Princeton, N.J. It is how we progress as a society,” said ETS CEO Amit Sevak, who presented the scholarships to the students. Recipients of the ETS-HBCU Presidential Scholarship.

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Inside Higher Ed

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Image: A group of students at Morehouse College who recently learned they would not be getting scholarship funds they expected and believed they were entitled to receive are demanding change and clarity about the institution’s scholarship policies. Ayden Clark-Veal is one of those students.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Most of the best students in Alaska high schools leave the state for college. And a state scholarship designed to change that is not working, The Anchorage Daily News reported. The Alaska Performance Scholarship was first established in 2011 to keep the best students in the state for college. Hide by line?:

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The PIE News

APRIL 11, 2024

The Red Pen , one of India’s leading education consultancies, is set to organise a British boarding school fair across three cities in India in April. The fairs, in Delhi, Mumbai, and Kolkata between April 13-16, will bring together heads of admissions from 14 prominent British boarding schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

The Descendants Truth & Reconciliation Foundation has launched a scholarship program in partnership with the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) to provide educational advancement opportunities to descendants of Jesuit and Catholic slaveholding in the United States.

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Inside Higher Ed

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Most of the best students in Alaska high schools leave the state for college. And a state scholarship designed to change that is not working, The Anchorage Daily News reported. The Alaska Performance Scholarship was first established in 2011 to keep the best students in the state for college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. Before López’s current appointment, she served in a similar role as an assistant professor in the College of Education at the University of Houston. TRIO programs supported my path toward college,” says López.

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Insight Into Diversity

MAY 14, 2023

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. At one time, the organization received over 1,500 applications for only 20 scholarships.

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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

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Earlham College has received nearly $1 million for a summer immersion experience for Indiana high school students. through its Indiana Youth Programs on Campus initiative – is part of a statewide investment of more than $29 million to help students explore their interests, learn skills, and consider college. 18-23 and 25-30.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

In the spring of 2022, at least 15 colleges and universities , including my own, Alfred University, jointly awarded honorary degrees during our commencement exercises. Scholarships, for example, are an especially effective means to help Ukrainians build a better future for their nation.

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Inside Higher Ed

OCTOBER 13, 2022

The University of Arkansas’ new transfer scholarship program seeks to address these challenges. The Arkansas Transfer Achievement Scholarship (ATAS), rolled out in fall 2019, has shown incredible growth, particularly among students from low-income and underrepresented backgrounds, including first-generation students. and $186.51

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Mary’s College of Maryland (SMCM) has received $4 million, the largest gift commitment in the school’s history. The money will go toward the school’s endowment and the R. Staples Scholarship Endowed Fund. “I I want growing the College’s endowment to be my legacy.” The commitment was made by SMCM alum R.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2023

has been tapped to become dean of the Howard University School of Law. Fairfax is a passionate legal educator whose extensive scholarship and commitment to criminal justice reform are deeply aligned with the law school’s mission,” said Howard President Dr. Ben Vinson III, who announced the appointment effective July 1, 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The Ellucian Foundation will award grants to 25 two-year colleges to help support students facing economic challenges. Ipsen The global 2023 Progress, Accomplishment, Thriving, Hope (PATH) Scholarship consists of $10,000-$25,000 grants to higher ed institutions to help students with expenses such as housing, tuition, and food.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 15, 2022

When Cazenovia College, a 199-year-old private liberal arts school in upstate New York announced last Wednesday that it would close after the spring semester, sophomore Ally Ruetton was shocked. “No But the college’s financial problems had been building for years. Others, like Mills College, merged with bigger institutions.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? It’s noteworthy, I think, that while US college rankings measure selectivity or reputation or resources or contributions to social mobility, these tools don’t assess program quality or productivity or contributions to breakthrough knowledge.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Graduate school isn’t an optional preference for many bachelor’s degree holders—it’s a demand. Of the 35% who hold a bachelor’s degree and have yet to start a master’s degree, 90% are interested in grad school. However, there seems to be a sustained interest in social media sites. followed by 5 p.m.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2023

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

New findings from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) are eerily similar to those of the Department of Education : only 16% of community college students earn a bachelor’s degree within six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education.

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Inside Higher Ed

MARCH 9, 2023

Two Brown University basketball players have sued the Ivy League over its prohibition on athletic scholarships, alleging the policy amounts to price fixing and denies athletes proper compensation for their services, the Associated Press reported. Robin Harris, the Ivy League executive director, defended the no-scholarship policy.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In this reimagining, we know that teacher engagement in high school is critical to student success, and that learner ownership – of student voice, choice, and agency – must be fostered early to encourage students to become global learners and leaders that can solve the most complex issues our society faces today.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs released the full tally of college and university’s Fulbright award winners last week, allowing the public to take a peek into which schools produced the most. 16) Carleton College, Minn. (14) 14) Barnard College, N.Y. (13) 3) Siena College, N.Y. (3)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) “From Learning to Leading: Cultivating the Next Generation of Diverse Food and Agriculture Professionals (NEXTGEN),” UAPB’s Dr. Nina Lyon-Bennett will be heading a scholarship initiative for students pursuing degrees related to agriculture and family and consumer sciences at UAPB and Fort Valley State University.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Appily combines EAB’s suite of student services into a one-stop destination where visitors can discover colleges, take virtual tours, find scholarships, explore majors, and match with schools. The Appily site is free for students. For more information on Appily and its features, please visit appily.com.

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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. colleges and universities. For the Ukrainian students, enrolling in college in the United States offers a welcome reprieve from the horrors of the war at home. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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Insight Into Diversity

JANUARY 3, 2024

College professors aren’t the only ones exploring ways AI can help them serve students more efficiently. For schools that use a formula or rubric to initially determine which applicants might be successful candidates, AI can reduce significant strain on resources by sifting through large data sets.

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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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University Business

APRIL 22, 2024

Nearly a quarter of today’s undergraduate students have seriously considered leaving school or were nearly dismissed, according to a new Sallie Mae study conducted by Ipsos. Affordability At-risk students are most likely to have a job, struggle with expenses and be less informed about finances before entering college.

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IHEP

JANUARY 9, 2024

By: Genevieve Garcia Kendrick and Kim Dancy While scope and design vary across states, one thing has become increasingly clear: f ree college programs are an important policy lever to increase affordability and expand the delivery of postsecondary value. million students, do not.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The ruling sent medical schools across the nation scrambling to adjust admission standards to abide by the new law of the land. These barriers [to entry] manifest early, prior to even applying to medical school,” says Faiz. Roughly half of the UC Davis School of Medicine’s class of 2026 represent minoritized populations.

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University Business

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s no secret applying to college is a stressful time in both the applicants’ and parents’ lives. The “dream school” Without taking acceptance or cost into consideration, students and parents were asked what their dream school would be. Harvard College (MA) 3. Harvard College (MA) 3.

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