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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Latinx participation in the Metro College Success Program learning community increased by 25% between 2019 and 2024. “Additionally, ‘Siguientes Pasos’ workshops support Spanish-speaking students and families with the transition to San Francisco State.” In that same time period, the retention of full-time Latinx students increased 3.9%.

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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. The Learning Assistant (LA) model program is not new.

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Former Congresswoman from Texas is Dead at 88

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She was born in Waco and experienced the transformation of a segregated South in her childhood into a South that would later honor her; Dallas’ once-segregated Union Station was renamed in her honor in 2019. Eddie Bernice Johnson Johnson earned a nursing certificate from St.