Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 7, 2025

The foundation will distribute $935,000 in grants to 10 local nonprofits in San Diego providing services including tutoring, counseling, and college application assistance. Recipients include A Step Beyond, Barrio Logan College Institute, and First Gen Scholars, each receiving $125,000 annually.

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Tutoring Scholarship Students Grant 290

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

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. Consequently, renormalizing consumer expectations for end-user experiences.

Community college 244

Community college Access Accessibility Higher education 244

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

Under Jordan’s leadership, SMCM saw a 71% increase in undergraduate admission applications, a 30% increase in first-generation students, a 20% increase in historically underrepresented and/or marginalized students, and a significant jump in alumni engagement. “We She didn’t just lead a college — she led a liberal arts movement.”

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Equity Undergraduate education Curriculum First generation 147

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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Placement Inclusion Higher education Access 279

EAB

MAY 30, 2023

Data from EAB student surveys and partner institutions have shown a steady increase in the average number of applications per student from just over six to seven across the pandemic. 2017, March 3). 10 EAB (2017). For enrollment leaders, this means that students’ attention is increasingly divided. 2022, July 21). Alief I.S.D.

Community college 52

Community college Application Advising Communication 52

COE

MAY 8, 2023

Congress created the TRIO programs because it recognized that low-income, first-generation students often face significant financial and societal obstacles to accessing and achieving success in higher education. Furthermore, it aims to prevent a similar situation in 2017 when the U.S.

First generation 98

First generation Education Leadership Grant 98