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Biden Budget Proposes Pell Grant Increase, More Money for HBCUs

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President Joe Biden's proposal calls on Congress to increase the maximum Pell Grant award by $750. That Pell Grant increase would not apply to students attending for-profit institutions. Biden's proposal includes two years of tuition-free learning for some students at minority-serving institutions.

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Liberal Arts College Acceptance Rates: Increase Your Odds

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Classics — and, more broadly, liberal arts — Tatum argues, grants people the “power to see what is going on in their world and […] the potential of having an educated imagination to respond to it.” increase in applications between the 2020-21 and 2021-22 cycles and a decrease in acceptance rate from 8.74% to 6.93%; Pomona saw a 4.9%

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HBCU Lincoln University Gets $2.9 Million Grant for Internet and Technology Accessibility

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Lincoln University will use the National Telecommunications and Information Administration grant for Chromebooks, mobile Wi-Fi hotspots, and classroom upgrades for distance learning. The Lincoln University grant project spans two years. The Connecting Minority Communities pilot program has awarded nearly $52 million to 19 schools.

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Emory, College of the Muscogee Nation Partner for $2.4M Grant

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The partnership began in 2021 after Emory sought a land acknowledgement since it was built on Muscogee (Creek) Nation land. The grant will support CMN's transition to a four-year institution. million grant. The grant will fund a master-apprentice quality to the language program for nine cohorts at CMN.

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New Study Suggests Elite Colleges Should Reinstate SAT/ACT

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Meanwhile, highly competitive schools in the University of California system, such as Berkeley and UCLA, are test-blind thanks to the system's policy change in 2021. All admissions decisions based exclusively or predominantly on SAT performance … appear to be biased against the African American minority group."

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Reimagining the Liberal Arts and Humanities

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A national grant program aims to reposition the liberal arts and humanities as central to the general education curriculum. Only 8% of bachelor’s degrees were awarded in social sciences and history in 2021, compared to 19% in business and 13% in health sciences. By 2014, those figures had dropped to 2.6% and 9.2%, respectively.

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Easiest College Majors and Degrees [2023 Guide]

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Anthropology majors benefit from strategically pursuing internships and minors to launch their careers. There's strong demand for computer science professionals, with the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) projecting 418,500 job openings annually from 2021-2031.