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University of Virginia Law Establishes Education Rights Institute

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The University of Virginia School of Law is launching a new Education Rights Institute to enhance understanding, scholarship, and resources for K-20 schools and disadvantaged students. Department of Education. She previously served as an attorney with the General Counsel’s Office of the U.S.

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2022 INSIGHT Into Diversity HEED Award Recipients

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to offer scholarships to DACA students. In the past year, MHC created a land acknowledgement policy, established two full-tuition scholarships for Native American/American Indian students, expanded and rededicated the Indigenous cultural center, and hosted MHC’s second annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day Teach-In.

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2022: Year in Review

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Using the authority Congress granted to the Department of Education, we will forgive $10,000 in outstanding student federal loans. Cardona granted Diverse: Issues In Higher Education an interview to discuss his first year in the position and what he sees as the biggest challenges and accomplishments of the U.S.

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In Equity Efforts, Where Does Title IX Truly Stand?

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This included a disproportionate number of athletic opportunities for male athletes and a shortfall in investment in women’s athletic programs, including athletic scholarships, recruiting, and coach compensation. She says she would like to see the Department of Education, Office of Civil Rights, act on some of the sports-related issues.

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AAUP Report on Political Interference in Higher Education: Changing Higher Ed Podcast 185 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Henry “Hank” Reichman

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Now this is striking because New College has never had an intercollegiate athletics program, but they decided to at least build with baseball and they recruited 70 freshman baseball players on athletic scholarship. and the Department of Education said, look, if you want to change your creditors, that’s fine, but we want to know why. [00:29:54]