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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% years in 2021-22.” From 2021 to 2024, the percentage of Latinx faculty applicants increased by 15%. in 2022-23.

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Common App Sets Goal to Increase Reach to Low-Income Students, Publishes Findings of Pilot Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the 2021-22 application cycle, Common App reached 350,000 below-median income students. And if the organization keeps at that pace and changes nothing about how it does things, that equity gap between students of different income levels won’t be closing, said Stephanie Sample, Common App’s vice president of communications.

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Compounding Inequities in Law School Are Not Insurmountable

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Tiffane Cochran However, the percentage of first-year law students who were people of color — 35% — barely changed between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years. Additionally, in the 2022-23 school year, Black and Hispanic students made up a significantly higher proportion of first-year law school attrition than they did the prior year.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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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. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Breaking Barriers

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Communication Studies, Manhattanville College Mentors:  Dr. Linda Perkins, Claremont Graduate University; Dr. Anita Tijerina Revilla, Cal State LA; Dr. Daniel Solórzano, UCLA; Dr. Maricela Becerra García, CSU Channel Islands; Dr. “I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In terms of visual communication, students prepare a PowerPoint presentation with graphs and data. As a first-generation college student, Canton didn’t know about doctorates or writing a dissertation, but a professor provided guidance. As of 2021, 20 universities offer doctoral programs in African American studies.

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Five Lessons for Turning Practice into Policy

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Between July 2020 and July 2021, 1.4 million more people joined the some college but no credential (SCNC) population, deepening existing inequities in educational outcomes and socio-economic mobility for first-generation students, adult students, students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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