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TheDream.US Report Highlights How COVID-19 Has Disproportionately Affected Immigrant Scholars

TheDream.US, the nation’s largest scholarship program for immigrant youth, recently released a new survey report on its scholars’ college experience titled, “In Their Own Words.” A section of the survey, conducted from May to mid-June via e-mail, was dedicated to how COVID-19 has disproportionately affected the scholars’ jobs, finances and family.

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Report Examines Value of a Postsecondary Degree From Students’ Perspective

To understand how college graduates perceive the overall value of a postsecondary degree, the Indiana Commission for Higher Education released the “2020 Gallup-Indiana Graduate Satisfaction Survey.”

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HBCUs and White Churches: a Collaboration Long Overdue

Churches have a long history of advocating for civil rights. During the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, the Baptist, Methodist and other religious denominations united to support civil rights for African Americans. Many churches, for example, provided shelter to protesters during civil rights marches. They organized food assistance programs, assisted homeless with housing needs […]

DeVos Announces $24 Million In Grants to Expand Education Choice for Native American Students

The U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos announced that 40 new grant awards totaling $24 million will be used to help expand education options for American Indian and Alaska Native students over the next 3-5 years. The Accessing Choices in Education (ACE) grants are designed to help Native American communities learn new skills through different […]

UF Board of Trustees Votes to Implement Furloughs

University of Florida’s Board of Trustees unanimously passed an amendment on Tuesday to implement furloughs, leaving some faculty and staff feeling targeted while administrators’ pay remain untouched, The Alligator reported. The regulation makes the school able to institute furloughs, but administrators said there are no immediate plans to furlough anyone. During the meeting, faculty and […]

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Church Raises $100,000 for College Students Amid Pandemic

The Bethel Baptist Institutional Church in Jacksonville, Fla. awarded 85 students with scholarships worth at least $1,000 for tuition, books and other fees amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to First Coast News. Every summer for the past 20 years, Bethel has held an annual walk-a-thon to raise funds to support this initiative, but due the […]

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Poll: COVID-19 Has Made Young People Question The Value of College

A new nationwide poll, with support from Equitable Futures, a project of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, shows that 52% of youth respondents said they value college differently now than before the pandemic. The findings reveal that COVID-19 pandemic has greatly altered how Black, Hispanic, Latinx youth, and White young people from lower income […]

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Student Enrollment Declines Across California’s Community College System

According to EdSource, student enrollment within California’s community college system has declined this fall — systemwide. Some campuses have even reported in double-digit losses. Though it is the nation’s largest college system, the circumstances have been compounded by the coronavirus pandemic, significant job loss, remote school/work as well as historic wildfires. “This is an issue […]

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Can We Judge Colleges by Their Success at Encouraging Grit?

One of my former students recently filled me with hope for the next generation. Clifton Jett Jr. is the director and writer of a play that he was about to bring to the stage, “Black Tar Boulevard,” when the pandemic hit. Although many productions have shut down, Clifton decided instead to pivot and turn the play into an independent film. He says, “We have worked too hard and waited too long to just throw it all away.” He and his team are moving ahead, in a safe and responsible manner.

Bellarmine University Creates New Scholarship Program for Low-Income Students

Bellarmine University is creating a scholarship program to recruit low-income, high-achieving students into several STEM fields using an approximately $1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The STEM fields are computer engineering, computer science, mathematics and data science. “The STEM Career Pathways Scholarship program will award annual scholarships of $7,200 each to two […]

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Legacy of Community College Professor Continues Through Scholarship

With a plan to pursue a postsecondary degree, Frederick Kakumba left Uganda in 1964 to come to the United States. “The opportunity came and I wanted to use it to help people in Africa,” said Kakumba, a retired Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) professor. However, the transition was not easy. In school, he experienced racism and found it difficult to adjust to American culture.

SAT, ACT Scores Still Required for Some Scholarships in Georgia

SAT and ACT scores are optional next year for admission to Georgia public colleges and universities, but are still required for some scholarships, The Athens Banner-Herald reported. A standardized test score is still required for some scholarships, including the state’s Zell Miller scholarship – “the top tier of Georgia’s two-tiered HOPE scholarship program” – which […]

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