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Change From Within

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Her advice to Penn colleagues last year also underscores how diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education won’t be fully realized by one committee, one survey, or one appointee. Lewis has been at Penn Nursing since 2005 and she became Assistant Dean for Diversity and Inclusivity in 2015.

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AANHPI in Higher Education: Facts and Statistics

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As a single demographic, Asian Americans appear to be doing well — high educational attainment, high household incomes — but a closer look by origin group paints a more complicated picture of how some Asian Americans are really doing. In 2015-2016, Asian students made up 6% of first-generation college students. [8]

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700,000 incarcerated students will be Pell-eligible in 2023. Here’s what that could mean for your institution

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Beginning July 2023, over 700,000 incarcerated adults will become Pell Grant eligible , enabling qualified students to pursue federally funded college education for the first time since the 1990s. When this funding ended, only a handful of secondary education programs in federal and state prisons remained.

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This Oklahoma Bill Would Allow Incarcerated Students to Access Tuition-Aid Grants

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Oklahoma lawmakers are considering legislation to allow incarcerated students access to a state grant program. That program includes $1,500 annual grants for students to attend community colleges, $2,000 for regional universities, and $3,000 for research universities. The legislation passed the Oklahoma Senate in February.

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Maryland HBCU Offers Incarcerated Students College Degrees

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Tuition for students is free, courtesy of the Second Chance Pell Grant program. The link between education and recidivism is clear: the higher the education, the less likely the chance of recidivism, Dr. Charles Adams, Criminal Justice Department chair at Bowie State and co-director of the prison education initiative, told BestColleges.

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Study: For Nearly One-Third of Students, Higher Ed Doesn’t Pay Off

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Calculating the ROI of Higher Education The study, " Does College Pay Off? Department of Education's College Scorecard , among other sources, the report estimates the ROI for 53,000 degree and certificate programs based on student cohorts from 2015-16 and 2016-17. Using data from the U.S.

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New Study Suggests Elite Colleges Should Reinstate SAT/ACT

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When the COVID-19 pandemic upended higher education in 2020, one of the monumental changes was the widespread suspension of standardized testing. A 2015 College Board analysis determined students from families earning less than $20,000 scored lowest on the SAT. Most highly selective colleges remain temporarily test-optional.

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