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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. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinx students has grown. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. He is the director of the PRISM (Power, Resistance & Identity in STEM Education) research lab.