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Section: Students

Report Examines Impact of Emergency Micro-Grants

Grants decreased students’ time to completion but did not necessarily boost overall graduation rates.

March 30, 2022

Georgia Senior Receives 49 Acceptance Letters, Selects Tuskegee University

Georgia high school senior Makenzie Thompson received acceptance letters to 49 universities and $1.3 million in potential scholarships. She has chosen to accept her offer from Tuskegee University, a Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in AL.

March 28, 2022

Georgia high school senior Makenzie Thompson will study animal science at Tuskegee University.

Louisiana Public Colleges Will Eliminate Remedial Courses

Louisiana’s public colleges and universities will revamp classes for students who aren’t prepared for college English or math.

March 27, 2022

Standardized Reporting Key To Improving Remedial Education

NASPA Conference Centers the Student Experience

NASPA kicked off its 2022 conference this week with a focus on meeting students where they are.

March 22, 2022

Community Colleges

Telehealth Gives Virginia Community College Students Mental Health Supports

Community colleges across the state are partnering with TimelyMD, a telehealth service that provides on-demand and appointment-based medical care and mental health support to 10% of all community college students in the nation.

March 22, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

An Outside-the-Box Thinker

When Nathaniel Hudson was growing up in the early days of the computer, he enjoyed tinkering with technology and playing video games for hours. But he didn’t know computer science could be a career for him until he took a high school class on web design.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

A Change Agent

Angie Le’s hunger for knowledge has led her across the globe, from Vietnam to South Korea, and finally to Florida International University (FIU), where she expects to receive her Ph.D. in public affairs in summer 2022.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

A Difference Maker

For Bryan Jenkins, pursuing his doctorate was about broadening his horizons. He received his bachelor's degree in accounting and his master’s degree in health administration

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

A Scholar for Our Time

Born in New York and raised in Puerto Rico, Luis Miguel Mestre’s educational trajectory was changed by Hurricane Maria in 2017.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

Marching to a Healthier Tune

As a Mexican-American woman pursuing a doctorate, Nancy Uriegas often reminds herself that she does, in fact, belong in academia.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

Committed to Giving Back

Melissa Wheeler was propelled toward her doctorate by a professor once telling her that “statistically, you are not supposed to be here,” so she pursued not only a master’s degree in counseling psychology but is now a fourth-year doctoral candidate.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

An Inquiring Mind

In her Ph.D. research, Rhondene Wint combines wet lab experimentation with computational methods. She points out that her current research investigates the genetic basis of neurogenesis.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

Finding Representation as First Gen. Graduate in Isolating STEM Fields

When Matthew Culberson realized as an undergraduate at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis) that he wanted to be a chemistry professor, he immediately scoured the college’s website to find a Black chemistry professor.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

Working Toward Equitable Higher Education

Quatez Bernard Scott has been working in higher education for almost a decade, mostly in multicultural and student affairs. His current position is intercultural specialist at the Bolinga Black Cultural Resources Center at Wright State University.

March 16, 2022

Rising Graduate Scholars

Studying Race and Place

Pamela Zabala has used her experiences as an undergraduate at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, to inform her research and scholarship as she pursues her Ph.D. in sociology at Duke University.

March 16, 2022

Law School Admission Council Offers Holistic Path to Law School

The Law School Admission Council's new program aims in the future to provide a second alternative for law school admission that will complement the LSAT exam.

March 16, 2022

Kellye Testy, president and CEO of the Law School Admission Council

Miami Dade College Joins Movement to Increase Student Democratic Participation

The initiative, Ask Every Student, unites 20 colleges in this democratic mission across the U.S, including seven Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).

March 15, 2022

Miami Dade College

UCLA, Howard Launch Summer Program for Students of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics

The Mark Q. Sawyer Summer Institute will bring together four undergraduate fellows from Howard University to the UCLA campus in June for an immersive, six-week academic research program on the role of race, ethnicity, and politics in society.

March 14, 2022

Dr. Mark Sawyer, late UCLA professor and pioneer in the field of race, ethnicity, and politics