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$38 Million Grant to Support Native College Students

Insight Into Diversity

The grant, which totals $38,775,000, is the largest in the College Fund’s history. Known as “Culture at the Heart: An Indigenous Approach to Enrollment and Retention,” the programming funded by the grant seeks to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of Indigenous students at 25 TCUs nationwide.

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Program Encourages Regional Native American Students to Pursue Health Sciences

Insight Into Diversity

The campus has a 50-year history of serving Native American and rural communities and ranks second nationally for graduating Indigenous physicians. Recruiting and retention efforts include scholarships covering full tuition, cultural support programming, and assistance in transitioning into medical or doctor of philosophy programs.

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Tribal Colleges and Universities as Conduits for Intellectual and Political Sovereignties

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These potential collaborations and partnerships offer PWIs an opportunity to account for the histories that led them to occupy their current lands and waters and take steps toward reconciliation and a future grounded in Tribal sovereignty and nationhood.

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It is not too late to shift gears to a more visionary International Education Strategy for Canada 

The PIE News

GAC has shown leadership and success in areas such as the most recent successful outbound mobility Global Skills Opportunity program , in collaboration with ESDC, and the recruitment and retention-focused International Student Program , in collaboration with IRCC. Looking for inspiration abroad is another.

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Pell Grant Increase Will Help Low-Income Students, But More is Needed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. In spring 2020, Black male retention at Whittier dropped to 30%. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Leadership program offers support for underprivileged students

Inside Higher Ed

Image: A program at the University of California, Irvine, ensures first-generation or underprivileged students are prepared for their lives after college, with a 100 percent graduation rate among its 630 scholars in the program’s 24-year history. ” While SAGE wasn’t conceived as a retention program, it has become one.