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Spelman College Receives Largest Single Gift to HBCU

Insight Into Diversity

Spelman College, a private women’s liberal arts college in Atlanta, has received the largest single donation ever awarded to an HBCU (historically Black college or university). Of the $100 million, $75 million will go to endowed scholarships to attract future students while removing financial barriers, according to the institution.

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Mount Holyoke Taps Howard University Law Dean to Lead College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mount Holyoke is a gender-inclusive women’s college in Massachusetts, one of the historic Seven Sisters, a group of highly selective women’s liberal arts institutions in the Northeast. Mount Holyoke was founded to challenge the idea that women did not need a liberal arts education,” said Holley.

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U.S. institutions offer scholarships to Ukrainian refugees

Inside Higher Ed

candidate—and became one of the many Ukrainian students currently benefiting from scholarships offered by U.S. institutions have launched programs to support Ukrainian students on their campuses, ranging from large public universities such as Texas A&M University to small liberal arts colleges like Mount St.

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Universities should be “skills brokers” for mutual benefit, urges report

The PIE News

However, speaking with The PIE News , Wiseman noted that employer and student demand for STEM education and training, does not mean universities will necessarily move away from traditional liberal arts programs.

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Support community-to-independent-college transfer (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

Yet efforts to improve transfer among policy makers, funders and institutional leaders overwhelmingly focus on the transitions between two- and four-year institutions in the public sector and overlook the important role of independent not-for-profit colleges and universities, which now enroll almost 20 percent of community college transfer students.

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Bard’s Innovative LGBTQ+ Studies Program Prepares Future Leaders

Insight Into Diversity

The private liberal arts institution in Great Barrington, Mass., The college also provides a $20,000 annual Queer Leadership scholarship to qualifying students. is a unit of Bard College in New York and is designed as an early college program for 11th- and 12th-grade high school students.

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The Problem with Our College Ranking System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Why be upset about this when my career is dedicated to ensuring that students, especially women and other marginalized groups, have access to an excellent liberal arts education? Dr. Mary Dana Hinton Yet at about the same time, my institution, Hollins University, began the HOPE scholarship program.