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College Completion Rates Edging Upward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Comparisons are available across states, gender, race/ethnicity and age as well as by year dating back to 2007. Lehman College, which serves many lower income and first-generation students, has several initiatives that work to close such gaps. Some of the lack of completion is based on financial difficulty,” said Silva-Puras.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Morales, president of CSUSB. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinx students has grown.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 33% of ASU’s enrollment is dual credit students (3,700 students taking both high school and college courses), 43% of whom are Latinos and first-generation college students. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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Within the context of TRIO programs, this research will focus on identifying institutional assets and barriers affecting first-generation and low-income learners’ career growth and developing an evidence-based theoretical model toward increasing awareness about institutional capacity.

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