Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

CCA’s roots began in the state of Indiana, but, by 2018, when Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva became its president, the organization began to spread its work more intentionally across the nation. Dr. Yolanda Watson Spiva Watson Spiva brought a wealth of knowledge to CCA.

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