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Drexel Offers Half-Off on Tuition Costs for Community College Grads

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Now, the university is expanding the program to benefit community college graduates across the country. Promise scholarship recipients must maintain full-time enrollment (up to 12 academic quarters during class terms) and a minimum 2.0 cumulative GPA. “If And that should be the goal of every institution of higher learning.”

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College Degree Still Sound Investment, Despite Rising Tuition

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Dr. Liang Zhang “Our cost-benefit analysis finds that on average a college degree offers better returns than the stock market,” said study coauthor Dr. Liang Zhang, a professor of higher education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. million Americans.

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Why African American History Month Is the Quintessential American Celebration

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Woodson for his conception and development of this singularly American institution which provides a shared opportunity, on an annual basis, to take a snapshot of the internal dynamics of American society, and to deliberate about where the country that most people consider to be the greatest economic power in world history is headed.

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Leaders Call for Active Resistance Against Anti-DEI Measures

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Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, author and professor of African American and Diaspora Studies, and professor of Ethics and Society in the Divinity School at Vanderbilt University, did not mince words. What they won’t understand is the necessity for solidarity so that everybody benefits. All of us could benefit.”

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18 Students Honored and Given Scholarships at Annual ETS Reception

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It is how we progress as a society,” said ETS CEO Amit Sevak, who presented the scholarships to the students. You are the future leaders of that society. Bright. “ You are successful when you use your degree to benefit yourself," he said. Equal access to education is the key that unlocks the American Dream.

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We All Pay for Not Addressing the School-to-Prison Pipeline

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The impact of these systemic issues extend beyond the individuals directly affected, seeping into the fabric of the broader society and affecting us all. By recognizing the critical interplay between education and incarceration rates, higher education institutions have a unique opportunity to drive change and foster a more equitable society.

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The project plays counter to dismantling of diversity, equity and inclusion, to this desire to silence, as we try to create a more diverse, equitable society,” said Hughes-Watkins. These stories are complicated and often traumatizing, Hughes-Watkins said, but their discovery can play a critical role in healing a racially stratified world.

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