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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. In 2022-23, over 350 students were awarded close to $772,000 in Graduate Initiative Grants. in 2022-23. Neufeldt, president of CSUSM.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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In the 2022-23 academic year, the College Fund supported more than 4,000 Native American scholars in 43 states to attend 267 colleges and universities. A plan for mainstream colleges and universities has been laid out for intentional engagement in recruitment and retention. Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Another HBCU on Track for Reaccreditation

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Dasha Lundy, executive vice president and chief operations officer, is hoping to follow in the footsteps of other HBCUs who have regained accreditation through TRACS, the Transnational Association of Christian Colleges and Schools, like Paine College in November 2022 and Morris Brown College (MBC) in April.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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As his reputation grew, Williams was recruited by Northwestern University, where he served as assistant dean of diversity and inclusion between 2017 and 2021, and then until 2022 as the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion lead of Northwestern’s Public Health Program. If you’re not ready to disrupt it, you’re not ready to do it.”

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Why Inclusive Education Is So Difficult to Defend and Deliver

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March 3, 2022, a middle school teacher at San Francisco’s Creative Arts Charter School wanted to incorporate active learning in her history lesson on slavery. But by the following week, she was on administrative leave. JT Torres We have all heard stories of flawed approaches to inclusive teaching. Here’s one. 2003 ; Bloom, 2009 ).

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. Working with our campuses, we’ve put in place high standards to raise their overall retention rates, overall graduation rates and overall attainment rates.”