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Dr. Christopher Nellum Named Executive Director of The Education Trust-West

Dr. Christopher J. Nellum was recently appointed executive director of The Education Trust-West. After first joining the advocacy organization in 2017 as the deputy director of research and policy, he oversaw studies focused on supporting student parents and increasing access to financial aid. He also developed a poll to gage an understanding of K-12 needs […]

University of Kentucky College of Medicine Receives $22M From Alumnus

The University of Kentucky’s College of Medicine received $22 million — its second largest donation ever — from Kentucky native and UK alumnus Dr. Michael D. Rankin. In donating the gift, Rankin described his own challenges of struggling to pay for a degree as a rural student who dreamed of becoming a doctor. “UK was […]

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Amid Falling Enrollment, SC State Board of Trustees Fires Its President

In a 10-3 vote, the South Carolina State University’s board of trustees voted to fire SCSU President Dr. James Clark, reports The State. Alexander Conyers, a retired U.S. Army Colonel, SCSU alumnus and a current vice president at the university, will serve as acting president for the historically Black university. According to The State, Clark was fired […]

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Illinois Bill Could Require a Liaison for Undocumented Students at Public Universities

Illinois colleges and universities could be required to create a liaison position to support undocumented students if the state’s governor, J.B. Pritzker, signs House Bill 3438 into law, reports the Illinois News Room. Sent to Pritzker in June, the bill requires all public universities and colleges designate a “Dream Resource Liaison,” who would help undocumented […]

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Dept. of Education Temporarily Changes Student Aid Verification Process

The U.S. Department of Education will temporarily change its federal student aid verification process for the 2021-22 award year by focusing on identity theft and fraud in an effort to help students hurt by the COVID-19 pandemic. Verification is an administrative process that requires Pell-eligible student aid applicants to submit additional documentation, such as transcripts […]

Emory University’s Business School Creates $5M Endowment to Increase Graduate Women Enrollment

Educator Rosemary Brown and John Brown, chairman emeritus of Stryker Corporation, donated $5 million to Emory University’s Goizueta Business School with the goal of increasing graduate program enrollment of women. While females earn over half of all undergraduate degrees, only 38% hold an MBA degree, according to the Women’s Leadership Gap. The gift by the […]

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NASA Donates $64.1M to Fund University-Led Research Initiative

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) awarded The Catholic University of America $64.1 million—the largest research grant in the school’s history—to establish the Partnership for Heliophysics and Space Environment Research (PHaSER). Through a cooperative agreement between Catholic’s Institute for Astrophysics and Computational Sciences, University of Maryland College Park, George Mason University, Univ. of Maryland […]

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Boston’s Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology Names Its First Female President

Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology (BFIT), a nonprofit technical and trade college in Boston, has named Dr. Aisha Francis as its new president. She is the first woman to serve in the role in the school’s more than 100 year history. Francis has nearly two decades of higher education and nonprofit experience under her belt. […]

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Coppin State Creates Scholarship in Honor of Freddie Gray

Baltimore’s Coppin State University has created a new scholarship — the Freddie Gray Student Success Scholarship — that will benefit graduates of the local Carver Vocational-Technical High School. Gray, who died in 2015 after he was arrested by Baltimore police, was an alumni of the high school. The scholarship is worth $25,000 and is funded […]

Steve Fund, JED’s Equity in Mental Health Framework Shows Promising Results

Students of color are almost twice as likely to not seek mental health care, compared to White students, according to the Steve Fund, a mental health nonprofit devoted to young people of color, and The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide. That’s why, in 2017, the two nonprofits provided institutions with a set […]

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American Educational Research Association Announces 2021’s Fellows

Having demonstration “distinguished and sustained research achievements,” 19 scholars have been named AERA Fellows by the American Educational Research Association. They join the 676 current AERA Fellows. “We are delighted to honor these highly accomplished scholars for their contributions to education research and their commitment to the field,” said AERA Executive Director Dr. Felice J. […]

South Carolina’s Voorhees College Appoints Dr. Ronnie Hopkins President

Voorhees College, a small, rural and historically Black institution in South Carolina, has appointed Dr. Ronnie Hopkins as its 10th president. Serving as interim president since January, Hopkins is a tenured English professor at Voorhees and was previously the college’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. Before arriving at Voorhees, he served as a […]

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