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Kessler Collaborative Breaks Down Silos to Help First-Generation Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What started as an innovative program to support limited-income and first-generation students at the University of Michigan in 2008 has since grown into a 16-institution collaborative program that has helped hundreds of first-generation students across the country find success in post-secondary education.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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Florida’s Anti-DEI Actions Hit Hard for Alumna and Mom of Recent Grad

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today. And I wonder if my historically Black sorority would be eligible to apply for student government funding to attend leadership conferences, just like we did.

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Acting in the Best Interest of the Institution

The University Innovation Alliance

President Welch (who prefers “Chuck” whenever possible) shared what inspired him to work in the education sector, leadership’s unique perspective, painful decisions for the good of the institution, and the value of authenticity and lived experience. Number two, I’d served on that campus from 2008 until 2011 and loved it dearly.

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Innovating to Close Equity Gaps: The National Institute for Student Success

The University Innovation Alliance

In fact, many of today's students are a bit older, self-supporting (some with dependents), possibly first-generation and/or from underserved or marginalized communities, and lacking the experience or time to find the resources that might better ensure their academic success.