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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Morales, president of CSUSB.

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Let’s Partner with Agriculture to Address Food Insecurity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab Today, thousands of institutions recognize that millions of students need – and certainly deserve – access to food assistance. In 2018 the U.S. During the pandemic Congress took bipartisan action to reduce those burdens, expanding access to SNAP for millions of people, including students.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We

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Pushing for Transformative Policy Improvements that Deliver Equitable Value for All Students

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

By: Mamie Voight Earlier this spring, IHEP reached an important milestone: 30 years of developing research to address the nation’s most pressing higher education challenges and promoting college access and success for all students. We will continue our CTA advocacy.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He became executive vice president in 2013 and assumed the presidency in 2018. Toward that end, Thompson praises Dr. Dawn Offutt, executive director of access, engagement, and belonging, for creating programming that helps campuses be culturally competent for everybody. Offutt has been with CPE since 2018.

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Study Explores the Students Who Start, But Never Finish, the Common App

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Taylor Odle, assistant professor of educational policy studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison Odle, along with Dr. Preston Magouirk, chief data officer of the DC College Access Program and a former senior manager of research and analytics for the Common App, is the author of a new study on so-called non-submitters, using data from 1.2

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

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