Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Harvey Nevertheless, some of these alumni maintain various levels of contact with their alma maters – ranging from attending reunion events, to regularly reviewing materials they receive from the college or university, to making monetary donations they hope will help produce a more inclusive atmosphere for current and future generations.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 17, 2024

The City University of New York system is receiving the largest donation in its history, intended to help the urban university boost its technology and artificial intelligence programs. CUNY plans to announce today that it will receive $75 million from the Simons Foundation, a philanthropy focused on furthering research in math and sciences.

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Ray Schroeder

MARCH 8, 2024

Albert Einstein College of Medicine, in New York, will offer free tuition following a $1 billion donation from its board chair — a gift the institution called the largest ever to an American medical school. The couple previously donated $25 million to the college in 2008. She is also the widow of Wall Street financier David Gottesman.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 26, 2024

The Board of Trustees at Northland College has delayed making a decision on whether to close due to financial issues, citing “several transformative donor gifts” received this week.

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University Business

JANUARY 19, 2024

On Thursday, the Atlanta-based liberal arts institutions received a $100 million donation. It is believed to be the single-largest one-time donation ever granted to an HBCU. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships. ” Three-quarters of the donation will go directly toward scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

Livingstone College The gift is the fourth consecutive donation at the $1 million level to the college from an anonymous donor. Livingstone College’s Class of 1973 raised more than $300,000 to support its alma mater and gifted an antique framed plate of the Price Building, which was presented to Livingstone President Dr. Anthony J.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

” The post President’s corner: How Eli Capilouto inspired a spate of gracious donations appeared first on University Business. . “The ideas certainly don’t start with me, but I believe we have a culture focused on how to best serve our students in our commonwealth.”

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Sixty-one percent of charitable donations to higher ed came from organizations, 22 percent came from alumni and 16 percent came from individuals who were not alumni. percent, donations to two-year institutions fell by more than 15 percent from fiscal 2021, a decline that Pasic said was both surprising and discouraging.

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University Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The post Hood College receives $54 million, largest donation in school’s history appeared first on University Business. On Wednesday, the school will host an event where students will have the opportunity to sign a thank you card to the Hodson trustees along with participating in a student giveaway featuring sweet treats and t-shirts.

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University Business

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The march stepped off Friday and the students received more than $7,000 in monetary donations from alumni, fraternities and nonprofit organizations to support their cause Read more from CBS News. The post Lincoln University students garnering more support, donations in their march for state funding appeared first on University Business.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

The Stupski Foundation has provided $1 million to create a fund to financially assist University of Hawaiʻi (UH) students affected by the devasting Maui wildfires. “We

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NACADA

JUNE 20, 2023

With the goal of addressing food insecurity on campus and in the community, the retreat organizers planned a food donation drive. The food donation drive profoundly impacted the participants, fostering both unity and empathy. Rowe Director of S.C.O.P.E.S./Certification

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The Guardian Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2023

World-renowned artist gifts painting to mark award of honorary degree for author’s outstanding achievements The acclaimed African American artist Kerry James Marshall has donated his first formal portrait of a living person to the University of Cambridge.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 23, 2024

The Bruins quarterback donates part of his NIL earnings to such causes. School: University of California Major: Legal Studies Year: Senior Chase Griffin , a legal studies major at the University of California, Los Angeles, sets the example as an active supporter of programs to combat food insecurity.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 25, 2024

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is using a $50 million donation to launch a new school focused on technology. The four-year public university announced Wednesday that it had received the multi-million dollar donation from alumnus Thomas Siebel, who now serves as the CEO of C3.ai,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 25, 2024

Howard Hewitt, Evelyn “Champagne” King, Ronald Isley, and others planned to call into the station’s broadcast to encourage donations to UNCF, the nation’s largest private provider of scholarships and financial assistance for African American and other underrepresented students to achieve access to higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 29, 2023

Music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs has donated $1 million to Jackson State University’s (JSU) football team, continuing his pattern of support for HBCUs. He had previously given $1 million to Howard in 2016 to establish a scholarship fund and had said that he would donate a further $1 million to the school in the same acceptance speech.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 1, 2023

Additionally, the donation will also result in a $200 million in public funds, due to a recent endowment donation matching program. They went off to lay brick and I went to my calculus class.” The $500 million will be distributed over seven years.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 19, 2024

Davidson College, a private, liberal arts institution in North Carolina, has secured an $85 million donation to expand its library with a focus on bringing it into the digital age.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2024

The fields, donated to Walsh University by the Hoover Company in 2004, will provide space for the teams to practice and compete. Walsh, which lacked a Rugby team, worked with Fox to assess the feasibility. As such, Walsh designated the grass fields on the north side of the Klekotka Tennis Complex as the “pitch” for the new Rugby teams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The donation funds will go towards the creation of a program through Flagstaff High School that will let students concurrently enroll at CCC and work with a success coach. Coconino Community College (CCC) has received $4 million to bolster male student enrollment efforts, Knau reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

With this new funding, combined with private donations, we hope to expand this effort, drawing even more world-class faculty to UofL and to Kentucky.” In the 2021 fiscal year, UofL’s Bucks-for-Brains endowed researchers’ work created 946 jobs and contributed $169 million to the Kentucky economy.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

APRIL 18, 2024

It is the largest donation in the Baltimore institution's 140-year history. Goucher College has received a gift of approximately $55 million, which will be used primarily for scholarships, the college announced Wednesday.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

MARCH 26, 2024

Dartmouth College is boosting financial aid significantly for middle-income students, thanks to a $150 million donation—the largest scholarship gift in the college’s history.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

We are incredibly grateful for Barclays' generous donation and continued support," said Ashley Christopher, founder and CEO of the HBCU Week Foundation. "As Fifth Media The five schools are Delaware State University, Hampton University, Spelman College, Morehouse College, and Howard University. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 28, 2023

The house owner donated the property to the university in 2023. The rental house stood near the University of Idaho campus in Moscow, Idaho, a rural farming community and college town of about 26,000 nestled in the rolling hills of north-central Idaho southeast of Spokane, Washington.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 9, 2023

Evidence of enthusiasm and continued support for SAU can be found in its alumni donations. On Giving Tuesday 2022, the National Alumni Association of SAU donated $10,000. The event’s donations totaled $217,000, which broke the record SAU had set just the previous year. So, when the [probation] report was posted, it was old news.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Harris-Teeter, which pledged $50,000 to the university to support food access , donates over $3,000 in gift cards annually to NourishHU to support graduate and professional students with families.

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University Business

JUNE 1, 2023

Stony Brook University, a public school on Long Island, received a donation of $500 million on Thursday from a foundation formed by an alumnus and a former faculty member, making it the recipient of one of the largest gifts to a university in American history.

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The Guardian Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Funding at 27 universities can shift not just research agendas, but also policy in the direction the industry prefers, authors argue Six fossil fuel companies funnelednearly $700m in research funding to 27 universities in the US from 2010 to 2020, according to new research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

We’re grateful for the resources that Kevin Durant and his family foundation have generously donated to Bowie State University to advance student success in achieving their academic goals,” said BSU President Dr. Aminta Breaux.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

The New Jersey-based Johnson & Johnson announced a donation to fund the Lt. In 2010, the Newark native became the first African American woman to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and only the second in our nation's history to lead a state legislative house.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JUNE 29, 2023

Hope College lets a small group of students attend for free and asks them to donate money to the institution after they graduate. The students only had to commit to return the favor by donating money to the institution after they graduate. An effort to raise $1 billion to expand the pilot program campuswide is going slowly.

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University Business

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

While the GOP-led movement to disband DEI offices has caught fire across the country, school donations in 2023 suggest a rift between lawmakers’ wishes and the community’s. While donations in the NACUBO-Commonfund report point to private support for DEI, some college leaders are also stepping up.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Collectives, as described by an Associated Press article “seek donations from boosters, alumni, and fans and then arrange opportunities for athletes to be paid for endorsements, public appearances, autograph-signing and posting branded content to their personal social media channels.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Williams, interim chair of the Whittier Board of Trustees, credited Oubré with attracting the largest gift in college history: MacKenzie Scott’s $12 million unrestricted donation; leading the school through a pandemic and a reaccreditation process; and expanding DEI efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Most African Americans don’t give a second thought to making these regular donations to our selected religious institution because we’ve been doing it all our lives, starting when we were children and continuing into adulthood. Priding a contribution of $25 monthly will amount to $300 a year in new revenue that your alma mater will receive.

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