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Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The nonprofit Partnership With Native Americans , or PWNA, recently announced that the consumer financial services company, Synchrony , has awarded $100,000 to support Indigenous education. Synchrony is providing the grant for 2023 and 2024, through its philanthropic program, Education as an Equalizer.

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Yale Pledges $10M Toward HBCU Partnerships, Following Slavery Apology

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

level careers in research — for students who come from an economically disadvantaged background, are first-generation college students, or have faced significant obstacles in pursuit of higher education. programs.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Those New York residents who make it receive full-tuition scholarships or tuition waivers (for individuals from out of state). Macaulay is a highly selective honors college for students in the CUNY system. Upon completion of her Ph.D.

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Scottish sector reacts to new int’l education strategy

The PIE News

Ramsay addressed some 220 delegates at the SUIG conference in Glasgow, who had gathered to discuss topics within the event’s overarching theme ‘Turbulent tides – navigating the waves of change in the Scottish higher education sector’ The strategy , a first for Scotland, was released on February 7.

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Exploring British Muslim transitions to PGT studies

SRHE

It will need to build in more responsiveness to the forms of disadvantage that holds back intersectional communities – such as British Muslims – from participation at the postgraduate level. He leads on the Foundation’s engagement with its university partners and higher education stakeholders.

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Mobilities and the ‘international academic’ in higher education

SRHE

It was an interesting week full of presentations and discussions around the theme of Mobilities in Higher Education. In the opening plenary talk, Emily Henderson invited us to reflect critically on the different ways in which mobilities of academics and students in higher education are discursively constructed.

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Benefits of staying on at university by Professor Wendy Thomson

HEPI

Even more so for those who face additional barriers to accessing higher education. Providing a home at university for care experienced and estranged students create a solid foundation for experiencing all the great things higher education has to offer. Starting university can be daunting.