Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students. They’re on a journey.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. Many Latino students require financial assistance to attend college, the report noted. Florida International University, one of the U.S.’s

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

The California Student Aid Commission, which administers the state’s financial aid program, has found that student parents face housing and food insecurity at a higher rate than non-parenting peers. 61% are first-generation college students. 47% work full-time and 83% enroll part-time or for part of the year.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

million students since the fall of 2019, and notable decreases in students with several under-represented backgrounds. They’re going to know that 41% of students are first-generation, that we have an office of student belonging. Institutions are also improving their financial aid offerings.

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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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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Department of Education’s 2019-20 National Postsecondary Student Aid Survey (NPSAS:20). Data Disaggregation Shows Disparities in Immigrant Students’ Unmet Need by Race and Ethnicity The broad data suggests that unmet need decreases with each generation. There were also differences over time.

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NACAC's Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By Don Heller, Gigi Jones, and Abby Miller The recent dismantling of affirmative action and the COVID pandemic highlighted the barriers preventing underserved, underrepresented students – students of color and those who are low-income and first-generation – from enrolling in college. Source: U.S.

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