Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

It was a 30-percentage point gap in the 2010 cohort between the highest income students and the lowest. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. They’re on a journey.

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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.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

The thing that people are often surprised is, when you look historically, that percent of students starting in 2010 that actually earned high school degrees went up. So I think you've got the wild card factor that's taking a lot of mental thinking about strategic planning for financial aid and the effective allocation of financial aid.

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EAB

MAY 9, 2023

The number of students at community colleges has fallen 37% since 2010, or by nearly 2.6 29% of them are first-generation, 40% of all the black students in college in America go to community college, half of all the Hispanic students. million people. And I know you and I both have huge respect for these students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Casteen, who served as UVA's seventh president from 1990 to 2010, was honored by Diverse: Issues In Higher Education in 2013 with the prestigious Dr. John Hope Franklin Award for his exceptional commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher education. Upon his retirement in 2010, former UVA Rector W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2023

The Department of Education’s announcement last week of a secret shopper program to investigate the recruitment, enrollment, and financial aid practices of schools has garnered mixed reactions. While advocates of access hailed the policy, the for-profit sector and financial aid offices raised worries.

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