Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

When Jordan began her tenure in 2014, her top priority was increasing enrollment and improving the institution’s financial status. “As “We demonstrated to the country that we’re thinking about the highest form of undergraduate education in a way that is inclusive of everyone,” says Jordan in an interview with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. Natacha DePaola, professor of Biomedical Engineering at Illinois Tech.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

In 2014, lower courts ruled in the schools’ favor, finding that their policies complied with Supreme Court precedents. The complex implications of a total ban generated a lot of discussion during the hearings and raised questions about the basic feasibility of race-blind applicant assessment. Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

When LaShelle Williams-Franklin arrived at Howard University as a first-generation college student from Cleveland, Ohio, she had her academic LaShelle Williams-Franklin plan perfectly mapped out. As a political science major with dreams of becoming an attorney, she received her four-year academic roadmap during orientation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Promoting Black affirmation in advising and coaching for first-generation Black male college students' success. link] This chapter explores the concept of identity-conscious advising and coaching to support the development of First-Generation Black Male College Students during their undergraduate experience. Frazier, R.-M.

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