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Ensured Tuition Coverage for Native American Undergraduates
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The new University of Arizona Native Scholars Grant program, the first of its kind for a public Arizona university, guarantees that tuition and mandatory fees for Native, Arizona Resident, undergraduate ...
- Posted Aug. 31, 2023
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Kaié:ri Nikawerà:ke Indigenous Bridging Program
- Concordia University (QC)
We are proud to offer the Kaié:ri Nikawerà:ke Indigenous Bridging Program as a pathway for eligible First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples who don’t meet Concordia’s ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Unanue Scholars Program: Improving College Access for Local Latina Students
- Catawba College (NC)
The Unanue Scholars Program serves junior Latina students from public high schools in Rowan County, North Carolina. Recipients of the scholarship are provided with a cost-free course at Catawba College ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Potential for urban agriculture to support accessible and impactful undergraduate biology education
- Rollins College (FL)
- Salish Kootenai College (MT)
- Tulane University (LA)
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
- University of San Diego (CA)
Active learning in STEM education is essential for engaging the diverse pool of scholars needed to address pressing environmental and social challenges. However, active learning formats are difficult to scale ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Who Pays? How Industry Insiders Rig the Student Loan System—and How to Stop It
- Roosevelt Institute (NY)
In Who Pays? How Industry Insiders Rig the Student Loan System—And How to Stop It, Julie Margetta Morgan explains how powerful industry players have succeeded in taking what they ...
- Posted April 28, 2022
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College Campuses as the "Great Equalizer" - Or Are They: A Critical Perspective to Sustainability
- Winthrop University (SC)
College campuses have often been touted as the great equalizer, a place where those who are marginalized, either racially or economically, have as much ability to succeed as their non-marginalized ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Early College, College, and Beyond: A Sustainable Educational Initiative
- University of Texas at El Paso (TX)
The Paso del Norte region is uniquely located in between two nations and three states. In the past, this region suffered from lack of access and support for educational attainment ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Increasing Access to Sustainability Education Through Online Programs
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Education has long been seen as crucial to supporting the needed sustainability transitions. Yet if these sustainability transitions are going to be just and inclusive than so must the education ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Partnering the university with correctional facilities for equitable education
- Butler University (IN)
College is a privilege not accessible to everyone. The structure of higher education is elitist and promotes a specific ideology in even the most liberal of schools. How can we ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Working with Vulnerable Communities on Climate Action through Nonformal Higher Education and Peacebuilding
- Salisbury University (MD)
- University of Cambridge
- M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence (NY)
Nonformal higher education provides an avenue to bypass the rigidity of hierarchical structures and prescribed norms within formal education, which offers opportunities to assist marginalized communities with climate action through ...
- Posted July 7, 2021
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Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind
- Nelson Mandela University (Eastern Cape)
- International Education Association of South Africa
This paper critically interrogates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to higher education in low-income countries. While the SDG Goal 4, Target 4.3, calls for ensuring ‘equal access ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs
- University College London (London)
Given that tertiary education (TE) is a sector often associated with exclusion, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where only a small proportion of the population gain access, how ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Race, Equity, and Leadership in Schools
- Harvard University (MA)
Race, Equity, and Leadership in Schools, a program of The Principals’ Center, offers a historical and cultural context for understanding how inequality plays out in schools and provides educators with ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Pullias Center for Higher Education
- University of Southern California (CA)
The world’s leading research center on student access and success in higher education, the Pullias Center for Higher Education advances innovative, scalable solutions to improve college outcomes for underserved ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Closing Racial Equity Gaps
- University of Southern California (CA)
The Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California identified five obstacles that stand in the way of racial equity at the system level and present five essential ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Economic Inequality and Higher Education
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Syracuse University (NY)
The vast disparities in college attendance and graduation rates between students from different class backgrounds is a growing social concern. Economic Inequality and Higher Education investigates the connection between income ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Making College Affordable: Providing Low-Income Students With the Knowledge and Resources Needed to Pay for CollegeState Flagships
College can seem out of reach for many low-income students. Too often they believe college is unaffordable and unattainable. It is no surprise then that students from the bottom socioeconomic ...
- Posted Nov. 16, 2017
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Affordability in Higher Education
The affordability of higher education is one of the most pressing challenges to college and university leaders and politicians. Meanwhile, students and parents face their own hurdles paying for college ...
- Posted Sept. 5, 2017
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Hear My Voice: Strengthening the College Pipeline for Young Men of Color in California
The Ed Trust–West report, Hear My Voice, examines the intersection of race, gender, and education and draws upon on-campus interviews with male students of color, parents, educators, and administrators ...
- Posted July 13, 2017
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Finance and Curriculum
- Texas A&M University-Commerce (TX)
- Relating the assignment to the University Mission
- Answering student demand
- Addressing programmatic structure
- Posted April 28, 2017
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Six ways to ensure higher education leaves no one behind
- UNESCO
Noting the lack of sufficient institutions to cater to the growing demand for higher education as well as increasing disparities in its access, the United Nations educational and scientific agency ...
- Posted April 25, 2017
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Race & Ethnicity as a Barrier to Opportunity: A Blueprint for Higher Education Equity
Young Invincibles released its latest report, Race & Ethnicity as a Barrier to Opportunity: A Blueprint for Higher Education Equity. The report takes an in-depth look at the disproportionate challenges ...
- Posted March 7, 2017
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Mobility Report Cards: The Role of Colleges in Intergenerational Mobility
- Brown University (RI)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
We characterize rates of intergenerational income mobility at each college in the United States using administrative data for over 30 million college students from 1999-2013. We document four results. First ...
- Posted Jan. 30, 2017
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Campus Diversity and Inclusion resources website
- American Council on Education (DC)
The Campus Diversity and Inclusion resources website from the American Council on Education (ACE) showcases regularly updated featured content on the following campus diversity and inclusion topics:
- Racial/ethnic minority ...
- Posted July 29, 2016
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True Merit: Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities
Representation of low-income students at selective colleges and universities has not changed in ten years despite selective institutions’ well-advertised, increased commitment to “need-blind admissions” and “no-loan financial aid” packages. All ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered
This report reviews findings from a first-of-its-kind survey conducted by the Center for Community Alternatives in collaboration with the American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) that explores ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Boxed Out: Criminal History Screening and College Application Attrition
This report builds upon CCA's 2010 study, "The Use of Criminal History Records in College Admissions Reconsidered." It makes clear how the criminal history box on college applications and ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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