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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A first-generation Mexican-American and first-generation college student, Gonzalez says she has always been motivated to help her family move up the social mobility ladder. There are also several transfers from community colleges. Natacha DePaola, professor of Biomedical Engineering at Illinois Tech.

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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. To learn more, visit ascendiumeducation.org.

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Kel Bonton: Telly Award winner forges his own path

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After graduating high school in 2008, he cultivated his talents at the University of Monroe, Louisiana receiving a bachelor’s degree in mass communication in 2012. Click to view the page: How TRIO Turned a Teen Dad into a First-Generation College Graduate. by Maura Casey.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

The University Innovation Alliance

But you move that along by having constant communication. Number two, I’d served on that campus from 2008 until 2011 and loved it dearly. He added that, for better or worse, people are the same regardless of the issue or institution: “You're never going to find unanimity. Some folks are never going to be satisfied. You're approachable.