2007 First generation Scholarship 
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
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. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinx students has grown. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 9, 2023
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.
COE
APRIL 7, 2023
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.
COE
OCTOBER 2, 2023
When people ask me about my work, they often wonder if my motivation stems from being a low-income, first-generation college student myself. Thanks to a fortuitous introduction by a partner in the firm’s Education Practice Group , I joined COE in 2007 as its director of congressional affairs.
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