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Postsecondary Enrollment Continues to Grow, Most Notably at Community Colleges

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Spring enrollments continue their progress towards recovering the levels of spring 2020. Total enrollment numbers remain down from 2020. increase, the first increase in this demographic since 2020. higher than it was in 2020. The current enrollment is a 3.2% increase from spring 2024. for multi-racial.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. Despite these gains, Latino students continue to face several hurdles during their academic and career pursuits, such as insufficient financial literacy, career planning, and financial assistance. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population.

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Partnership Receives $100,000 to Increase College Access for Indigenous Students

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Partnership with Native Americans offers scholarships, college grants, emergency funding, college readiness camps, and literacy and school supplies through its American Indian Education Program to improve Native students’ access to higher education. We're proud to support PWNA."

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Since 2020, almost 60% of Village residents have been Latino and have completed their degree or certificate programs in an average of 3.4 San Diego State University A continued commitment to intentionally serving Latino students is part of San Diego State University’s (SDSU) 2020-25 strategic plan. Currently, 60.1%

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Leveraging Materials Engineering to Improve Human Health

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a nonprofit organization focused on empowering historically excluded groups with financial literacy. She has partnered with FOSSI, or the Future of STEM Scholars Initiative, to give financial literacy workshops to FOSSI scholars. She arrived at the University of Florida in July 2020.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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In fact, these resegregated practices cause short-term and long-term harm for Students of Color (National Center for Learning Disabilities, 2020). Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. Thus, our use of the term resegregation is intentional.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

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This period was characterized by an increasing emphasis on computer literacy and the integration of technology into both curriculum and administrative processes. The digital revolution began to reshape how students and faculty interacted with educational content and how institutions managed their operations.

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