Oct 30, 2023 | Education, Equity
Vice President Harris on Thursday swore in the new members of the President’s Advisory Commission on Advancing Education, Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Black Americans. The commission, created under an executive order by President Biden in 2021,...
Aug 7, 2023 | Education, Equity
When the Biden Administration announced its latest initiative to reduce the nation’s unsustainable trillion-dollar student debt, both borrowers and advocates rejoiced. In the coming weeks an estimated 804,000 student loan borrowers will receive $39 billion in federal...
May 1, 2023 | Cannabis, Equity
Colorado Governor Jared Polis on Monday announced the launch of a new state-funded loan program for cannabis social equity businesses. The new program is designed to provide financing to licensed social equity cannabis businesses, which typically face...
Apr 24, 2023 | Education, Equity
More than 50 students, faculty and administrators attended a forum at Kent State University Friday, where Black and LGBTQ students spoke out about fears of losing scholarships and cherished campus student organizations if Senate Bill 83 passes in Ohio. The forum, put...
Jan 16, 2023 | Equity, History, Leadership
During his 1964 acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, Martin Luther King Jr. said, “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” More than five decades later, our society is still struggling to separate...
Nov 21, 2022 | Community, Equity, Higher Education
Six in 10 millennials who don’t own a home say it’s because of student loan debt, according to a 2021 survey from the National Association of Realtors. College costs skyrocketed in the last two decades. Average tuition between 2010-11 and 2020-21...
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