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Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. We're proud to support PWNA."

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FASHP Declares A National Crisis in Low Number of Men of Color in Health Care Professions

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Some of the effects FASHP members have made to remedy this issue include the 2020 AAMC Action Collaborative for Black Men in Medicine ; a two-day ADEA summit to develop solutions to HUMOC scarcity; and the Summer Health Professions Education Program (SHPEP).

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With Pell Grants Expanding to the Incarcerated, Experts Say Prisons Need To be Less Restrictive of Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Congress voted in December 2020 to restore Pell Grants for incarcerated Americans after a 26-year ban, advocates hailed the move as an opportunity for 760,000 people in prison to achieve a better life through education. Sometimes educational programs can feel like a low priority, derailed by clerical errors and staffing issues.

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DEI: Informing the Implicit to Create the Explicit in Classroom Culture

The Scholarly Teacher

Engaging the Brain and Instructional Practices Practices that support the facilitation and design of classroom culture are those which utilize explicit practices that allow students to reflect on previous background experiences, share perspectives with one another, and support cognitive development (Blaha, 2022; Muniz, 2020). pdf Dong, A.,

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UW Gets Google Gift to Diversify Computer Science Education

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Google’s gift will bolster UW’s efforts to tackle the i ssue with the STEP CS program. In 2020, it ousted the co-leader of its Ethical AI team, a black woman, after she refused to retract a paper on potential ethical problems with AI language models , including that they could reflect biases.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

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It’s a burgeoning industry, expected to grow 7% between 2020 and 2030. Educational programs haven’t caught up yet, and students may be unaware of the field or intimidated by it.

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Community Colleges Up, Four-Year Schools Down in Latest Enrollment Data

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million fewer total undergraduates than in spring 2020. On the other hand, healthcare and education programs, more commonly taken by women, continued to see declines. However, total enrollment has not made a full recovery: there are about 1.16 or 25,000 students).