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Report Presents New Approach to Increasing Completion Rates at Public Institutions

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Typically, the current funding model involves receiving funding after the institution shows improvement. CCA’s completion-goals funding advocates for the funding to be allocated up front, thus giving public institutions the funds to provide adequate support services which will lead to improving outcomes and meeting state completion goals.

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Pride in the Halls

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Evolution Liam Dacey, a 2004 graduate of University of Notre Dame (UND), one of the nation’s preeminent Catholic institutions, took steps to transfer after coming out his sophomore year, but changed his mind and instead became an advocate for LGBTQ visibility and acceptance on campus. These are the real impacts.” of non-LGBTQ people.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

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There are a number of us who are advocates for those young people and are doing what we can at our respective institutions to pour into them,” she says. We still have an industry in which the people making the hires are predominantly white males,” she says. was key,” says Carter-Francique. Four years later, 82.8% of athletic conferences.

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After Settlement with Howard University, Students Call for Sweeping Changes

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Getting into Howard University was a dream come true for Durmerrick Ross. He dedicated himself to protesting any perceived involvement by Howard with President Trump’s agenda or cabinet, creating the unaffiliated student group HUResist in the hopes of pushing Howard toward resistance against Trump’s more conservative educational doctrine.

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Gen Z as Donors: Ready or Not, Here They Come

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Give-to-Get. Personal connection is crucial for Gen Z, and personalized texting is one way to replicate the “in person” customized feel without stretching to get in front of every young alumni donor in your database each year. Gen Z wants to get involved Gen Z is a generation of activists, of advocates, and of discerning donors.

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New Ways to Support Community College Student Health

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And there are ways for you to get involved, now , to enhance their impact. In other words, this effort will bring more dollars to colleges by ensuring that they get Medicaid reimbursement for the eligible services they (already) provide. The challenges predate the pandemic but were exacerbated by it.

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Grant Bolsters University’s Support for STEM Students with Disabilities

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Program participants advocate for and improve the representation of STEM students with disabilities on UNR’s campus. One project involves the use of Photovoice, an ethnographic research tool in which participants take photographs depicting significant challenges in their lives. Disability should be seen as an aspect of human diversity.