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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. The number of bachelor’s degrees awarded to Latinx students has grown. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1% years in 2021-22.” in 2022-23.

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Breaking Barriers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher Education and Student Affairs Education:   M.Ed., Postsecondary Administration and Student Affairs, University of Southern California; M.A., Gonzalez Institution:   Claremont Graduate University Graduate Program:   Ph.D., Applied Gender Studies, Claremont Graduate University B.A.,

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., I became interested in the topic because of my own experiences, primarily being a first-generation college student, being a student who received a maximum Pell Grant, and identifying as a gay Black student.

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Five Lessons for Turning Practice into Policy

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

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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Five Lessons for Turning Practice into Policy

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Between July 2020 and July 2021, 1.4 COP2P helped practitioners – campus success coaches, student affairs leaders, enrollment managers, communications professionals and recruitment staff – advocate for resources to advance equitable degree completion within their institutions, organizations, and states.

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5 Tips for Recruiting and Enrolling Latine/x Students in Your Community College

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Prospective Latine/x college students in the U.S. are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. And even though Hispanic students were the only college student population who saw consistent growth over the past 10 years, there was still a 24.5% October 6, 2021.