he John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (Gardner Institute) and the Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (AGB) are pleased to announce that the Commonwealth of Kentucky was selected to participate in the Governing Board Equity in Student Success Project over the next three years. Supported with a $2 million grant from Ascendium Education Group, the first-of-its kind effort will help institutional governing boards and their institutions work together in innovative ways that help advance equitable student success outcomes for students from low-income backgrounds, including those from rural communities.
Read More…the phrase “socially just design in postsecondary education” is defined as the means that colleges and universities, and those who work and study within them, use to actively address the ways in which people experience oppression and marginalization within postsecondary institutions and the broader communities of which those institutions are a part.
Like millions of other Americans, the Gardner Institute’s staff and Board of Directors are deeply disturbed and saddened by the attack on the citadel of our democracy, our nation’s Capitol, on January 6, 2021.
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