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. Applications for the program opened Jun.

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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. Equal access to education is the key that unlocks the American Dream. It is how we progress as a society,” said ETS CEO Amit Sevak, who presented the scholarships to the students.

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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. The launch of the Andrew Young HBCU Scholarship Program will be announced on Friday at the Georgia Capitol.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

This is important for our students here at SLCC, where most work and go to school part time, and often are helping take care of families,” said Josh Montavon, SLCC director of financial aid and scholarships.

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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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The PIE News

JUNE 23, 2023

The regional government of Kano , one of the largest states in the country, spent the money paying school fees for some 111,000 students in 14 different countries abroad including the UK, China, India, Turkey, Ireland and Malaysia. The post Nigeria: US$29m on scholarships in eight years appeared first on The PIE News.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

My hope is to continue to transform lives through higher education.” Funds to establish the program will support two students per year with full room and board scholarships for their first two years on campus. It means a great deal to me and my family to be able to give back to take the university to the next level.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education. My job, my office was actually at a high school in Houston,” López says. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. Dr. Ruth M.

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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. In a statement, Dr. Harry L.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

At Generations College, nestled in the heart of Chicago, we have witnessed firsthand the life-changing power of education for single parents. In 2019, we proudly launched the Single Parent Scholarship initiative, which provides financial assistance and support services to single parents who aspire to earn a college degree.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 20, 2023

The higher education institutions conferring honorary degrees on Zelensky committed to assisting Ukraine in other ways. Scholarships, for example, are an especially effective means to help Ukrainians build a better future for their nation.

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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. Additionally, she possesses a B.Sc. Additionally, she possesses a B.Sc.

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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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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

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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The Chronicle of Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

News' rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students. By Tamara F. Lawson and Heather K. Gerken Illustration by The Chronicle U.S. News rankings methods have encouraged the neglect of low-income students.

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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 26, 2023

I should add that neither US News nor the educated public has much understanding of what a first-tier, cutting-edge English or history or sociology department would look like. Would it be judged on scholarship, influence, or some other elements? Previous analytical paradigms didn’t lasted nearly so long.

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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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Insight Into Diversity

OCTOBER 5, 2023

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. Karsh Bicentennial Professor of Law and director of the law school’s Center for the Study of Race and Law. Department of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Austin Community College District (ACC) is proposing to make college tuition free for all high school seniors in Central Texas. Our proposal covers the cost of tuition so that financial aid and scholarship dollars can go further and help students pay for their living expenses,” said Lowery-Hart. That is a game changer.”

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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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Inside Higher Ed

JANUARY 16, 2024

I wrote a dissertation on a topic so untrammeled, Catholic women’s higher education, that there were no books from which to plagiarize. Seize the opportunity.

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The PIE News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Ireland’s Higher Education minister has revealed new regulations for English language schools in the country during a trip to Korea. The new rules are designed to highlight which programs have met national quality standards that ensure learners are having the best experience possible through an International Education Mark.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2024

Tina Tchen, left, and SLN CEO Yolonda Marshall sit in conversation at the Whole Girl Education National Conference. Secondary and postsecondary education must play key roles in the future of the American democracy. Tchen told listeners that, at this moment in time, education and democracy are walking “on the knife’s edge.” “I

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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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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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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

APRIL 3, 2024

Rosedale International Education has signed a partnership with Singapore-based Birmingham Academy to offer the Rosedale Global High School Program to students. Graduates will be granted the Ontario Secondary School Diploma, allowing them the flexibility to apply to higher education institutions around the world.

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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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Inside Higher Ed

DECEMBER 5, 2022

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. “Providing access for displaced students to continue their education can be a life-changing opportunity that can provide hope during a time of deep uncertainty. So she returned to KU—this time as a Ph.D.

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The PIE News

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Gunel Novruzova , who set up education agency NGGLOBAL education in Beşiktaş on Istanbul’s European side earlier this year, was not to be deterred. “This year I decided that I would do it,” says the former school representative in the Turkish market. “But it was pretty stressful.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

MINNEAPOLIS—Amid the ongoing attacks to higher education, experts who study the field are gathering this week to debate and respond to the growing political challenges that have impacted colleges and universities. It’s really about the importance of relationships,” he said of the association that will turn 50 in two years.

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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. Indiana has been seeing a decline in Indiana residents pursuing higher education. The grant – from Lilly Endowment Inc. 18-23 and 25-30. Students who complete the program will earn college credits.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

What does Diverse: Issues In Higher Education mean to you? When the first edition of what was then called Black Issues In Higher Education was published on March 15, 1984, it was two days before my 14th birthday, and I was still adjusting to ninth grade in a public high school after attending a private school from second grade to eight grade.

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The PIE News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

I can understand that rising costs are inevitably passed on to us [the students] as customers, but it has led me to question if education is only accessible to the financially privileged. Many students just like me, leave their families and home to travel across the world to access the quality education the UK has to offer.

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