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Since 2003, the Kauffman Scholars program invested $140 million to help Kansas City-area students in under-resourced areas pursue an education and a successful career.
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Students for Justice in Palestine, a newly-recognized student group, has led efforts at UMKC to call for a Gaza ceasefire. Leaders say they're making inroads with their fellow students, but argue the university is not doing enough to protect them from Islamophobia and potential retaliation.
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Palestinian and Muslim students say that UMKC's silence on the war in Gaza is leaving them vulnerable to discrimination. Plus: A recent Forest Service report says that climate change will cause older trees to release more carbon dioxide, but conservationists aren't so sure.
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Saint Louis University is running a prison education program that provides some Missouri inmates and prison staff with the opportunity to earn degrees. An inmate who hopes to return to Kansas City upon his release says the program gave him a new perspective on life.
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The department is withholding payment from the Higher Education Loan Authority of the State of Missouri, its largest loan servicer, as 2.5 million borrowers didn't receive timely billing statements.
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In Missouri, Lincoln University — a land-grant historically Black university — has been underfunded by roughly $360 million over the past 30 years compared to the University of Missouri, according to a new federal report. Now a bipartisan group of lawmakers are asking the state to look into the inequality.
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Donors had specified that Avila University in Kansas City shouldn’t spend the principal of its endowment, which is invested and used to pay for scholarships. However, Avila argued it needed access to all of the money, otherwise it would be "challenged to meet its financial obligations."
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Students at Missouri’s Truman State University can now earn a four-year bachelor’s degree in cannabis — and Truman isn’t the only academic institution teaching about weed.
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The Catholic liberal arts school in Kansas City is asking a court to remove limitations that donors imposed on money they gave for scholarships. Avila University says that if it can't tap into its endowment, "the University will be challenged to meet its financial obligations."
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Highland Community College in rural northeast Kansas will take steps to address alleged racial discrimination and harassment under an agreement announced Monday with the U.S. Department of Justice.
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Kansas athletes say new anti-trans law won't protect women in sports — it's 'sexism from a new lens'A new Kansas law bans transgender girls from playing sports on girls' teams in schools and colleges. Opponents say that discriminating against transgender children was a solution to a problem that didn't exist, and the law ignores real fairness problems that female athletes face in Kansas.
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College students are gearing up to head back to campus for another school year, but for first-years, the transition to a university setting and dorm living can be a hard one.