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Texas colleges and universities get $2 billion in federal stimulus money. Half must go directly to struggling students

A meeting of a community board that helps guide regional solutions to homelessness underscored concerns last week around a shelter proposal pitched by Multnomah County Commissioner Sharon Meieran. The virtual Wednesday meeting of the A Home For Everyone (AHFE) Coordinating Board—which oversees the collaborative work being done by governments in the Portland metro region to address homelessness—centered on Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury's proposed county budget for the 2021-22 fiscal year. That budget suggests using...

Following the establishment of the Texas Reskilling Support Fund Grant Program by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Texas Tech is planning to offer tuition and fees assistance to students whose academic progress got impacted by COVID-19. This grant will be given to qualifying students who were unable to attend school in the fall of 2020 due to COVID-19-related circumstances. Tech Vice Provost Melanie Hart said that eligible students must be able to graduate within 12 months and have not enrolled in any university or college during the Fall 2020 semester. “This will allow stu...

The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-related Stigma and Discrimination  The Global Partnership for Action to Eliminate all Forms of HIV-Related Stigma and Discrimination (Global Partnership) was established in 2018 following a call to action by the nongovernmental organization delegation to the UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board (PCB NGO Delegation). It is co-convened by UNAIDS, UN Women, the United Nations Development Programme, the Global Network of People Living with HIV, the PCB NGO Delegation and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. It is ...

UNAIDS More than 150 civil society representatives from 17 countries in Asia and the Pacific joined the first virtual regional consultation on the upcoming United Nations High-Level Meeting on AIDS. “Your views are important. We need them, and they really matter for the success of the political declaration,” said Mitch Fifield, Australia’s Ambassador and Permanent Representative to the United Nations and one of the two co-facilitators for the high-level meeting process, in his opening remarks. He also spoke about the valuable contributions of the participants to the high-level meeting a...