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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

for students who entered in 2017. I can go to conferences to build relationships with these students, creating a database, bringing it back, and sharing it with the department to do outreach,” Waller says. Taylor Cupp When Watford began CEED, the graduation rate for Black engineering students was around 25%. That rose to 61.2%

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College Planners of America

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