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UCR’s 2020-2021 school year has been anything but uneventful. From continuous COVID-19 restrictions to extreme budget cuts, the university community has had to face many new changes and challenges this year. Here is the past year in review. September 2020 In September of 2020, grappling with steep budget cuts, UCR’s Budget Advisory Committee  suggested the […]

A few years ago, I found myself enraged at a woman and her husband hoping to make a simple purchase. I was working at a bookstore at the time, and

Virginia State University, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richard Bland College and other VA universities to collect American Rescue Plan funding

San Antonio holds a prominent presence in a recent list of top 20 U.S. colleges with the...

Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona just eliminated that rule. "The pandemic didnt discriminate on students," Cardona said in a press call on Monday. "We know that the final rule will include all students, and we want to make sure that all students have an opportunity to have access to funds to help get them back on track." On Tuesday, the Biden administration issued a final rule that revised a Trump-era policy barring international and undocumented students from accessing emergency aid. In J...

Morgan State University Portland State University Sultan Moulay Slimane University Zayed University Over two years, 1,500 students across all 15 institutions in Morocco, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States, including at The University of New Mexico, will participate in a virtual exchange supported by the Initiative under Connected Classrooms. “At the core of Connected Classrooms is a desire to forge meaningful, equitable partnerships between institutions in Morocco, the United Ara...

Mohamed Ahmeds dream of being a construction manager in America was stalled on arrival. The native of Sudan had the desire, but not the contacts in Iowa. And he was constantly running into hurdles caused by cultural differences. For example: The difference between a comma and a period when looking at numbers. In Sudan, if you add one to one-half, a mathematician might record it as "1,5." In the United States, where the 25-year-old Ahmed has lived since November 2016, thats "1.5." "In my hom...

Iowa City awards $75,000 to programs boosting diversity in trade jobs, housing advocacy and more Zachary Oren Smith, Iowa City Press-Citizen © Joseph Cress/Iowa City Press-Citizen Mohamed Ahmed, 25, poses for a photo, Thursday, April 8, 2021, in Iowa City, Iowa. Mohamed Ahmeds dream of being a construction manager in America was stalled on arrival. The native of Sudan had the desire, but not the contacts in Iowa. And he was constantly running into hurdles caused by cultural d...

NSF 21-066 April 6, 2021 BACKGROUND NSF seeks to lessen the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) research and STEM education research and development. Known impacts include decreased faculty research productivity and difficulty in initiating and/or maintaining a career trajectory in either STEM or STEM education research and development. The goal of this funding opportunity is to support sustained research productivity and career progressi...

A Conversation with Educational Trailblazer Adena Williams Loston Growing up in the segregated South, Adena Williams Loston and her siblings would take messages for her father’s plumbing business. He was the first Black, self-employed plumber in her hometown and served predominately white clients, never turning down a job but also showing his kids that dignity mattered. “They would say, ‘Send that n****r over here—because that was his label,” remembers Loston, the president of St. Phi...