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A $3 million grant from the National Science Foundation will enable minority-serving institutions to bolster their cyberinfrastructure and open up STEM professional development opportunities.
We have an opportunity to lift up these struggling communities, pushing them — and as a result, the economy — forward.
On Monday, Wells Fargo announced the Banking Inclusion Initiative, a 10-year commitment to help unbanked individuals gain access to affordable, mainstream, digitally-enabled transactional accounts – a meaningful entry point to fully participating in the economy and achieving financial stability. The initiative will focus on reaching unbanked communities and, in particular, helping remove barriers to financial inclusion for Black and African American, Hispanic, and Native American/Alaska Native families, which account for more than half of America’s 7 million unbanked households1...
I scraped by to pay for community college. The US can do more for students CNN 2 hrs ago Opinion by Cristina Tzintzún Ramirez © Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images North America/Getty Images Most Americans say they can't afford college tuition. Nearly two decades ago, I was barely scraping by at community college, only able to afford it thanks to Pell Grants and my job as a server. Neither of my parents had graduated from college, and I had been rejected from my dream school, the University of Texas at Austin. It had taken me until 21 to even enroll in community college bec...
Beginning with the summer of 2021 semester, Tulane’s School of Professional Advancement will offer a tuition discount award of 20 percent to students enrolled in Tulane SoPA graduate or post-baccalaureate programs who have earned their undergraduate degree from a Minority Serving Institution. (Photo by Paula Burch-Celentano) Tulane University’s School of Professional Advancement (SoPA) announced a tuition discount award of 20 percent to students enrolled in Tulane SoPA graduate or post-baccalaureate programs who have earned their undergraduate degree from a Minority Serving Insti...