Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 25, 2024

The recently released "Project 2025: The Conservative Promise" paints a dystopian picture of American higher education, overrun by a "woke" ideology that supposedly threatens our nation's very foundations. This could stifle critical thinking and limit students’ exposure to diverse perspectives.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 28, 2025

The report, "How Latinos Pay for College: 2025 National Trends," builds on two decades of research and reveals that while Latino students demonstrate high financial need, they are employing effective cost-saving measures to make higher education affordable. Brown, President of Excelencia in Education, in the report's foreword.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Active Minds is honored to share our 2025 Emerging Scholars and their incredible research. As a first-generation undocumented immigrant and the president of the CCNY Dream Team, Juky is passionate about advocating for marginalized communities, particularly undocumented and BIPOC students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

A first-generation college and law graduate, and lawyer herself, Mitchells leadership and vision inspire law school aspirants to see the challenging path to becoming lawyers as an achievable dream - reminding them of the "seeds of greatness" inside and their social responsibility to pay it forward.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

a nonprofit based in Atlanta, GA, which served as a strategic partner to the Atlanta Public School District as well as hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation to increase the number of low-income, first generation, Atlanta students of color graduating from high school and college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

HBCUs have always been innovating for generations. They're educating first-generation college students and turning them into global leaders that's innovation. In 2025, we'll see a more explicit focus on faculty engagement, picking up the student engagement onto the broader aspects of the platform in 2026.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The goal is outlined in NJIT’s 2025 strategic plan that aims, in part, to better served its home city of Newark, New Jersey, and the nation. It also reaffirms our commitment to diversify our student body and deliver a holistic education that creates economic opportunity for all of our graduates, particularly first-generation students.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

She is an expert in contemporary American religion, especially related to religion in public institutions, religious diversity, religious and moral aspects of healthcare, and religion and immigration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The curriculum’s first course, “The Students We Have,” is currently available for free to colleges throughout the nation. In 2025, three additional courses, including one focused on supporting parenting students, will be added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular. 30 instead of the usual Oct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. This was to be accomplished by the year 2025. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. Her upcoming book, John Doe China Man , is set to come out in Fall 2025, this time giving readers a look at the racial laws that were used to police and regulate Chinese Americans and residents already in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. This transformation in thinking appears to be precisely what some conservative groups fear.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Charles Alexander Dr. Charles J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. Her upcoming book, John Doe China Man , is set to come out in Fall 2025, this time giving readers a look at the racial laws that were used to police and regulate Chinese Americans and residents already in the U.S.

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Knack

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Across the country, weve worked with colleges and universities eager to provide tailored peer learning opportunities for key student populations, including first-generation students, adult learners, student-athletes, and more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Programming and strategies Since the HSI classification was approved, NAU integrated the work into the university’s strategic plan, “NAU 2025 – Elevating Excellence.” For students that happen to be first-generation as well as Hispanic, they need assistance and coaching on the admissions process,” Bias said.

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UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A message from the First-Generation Student Working Group Co-Chairs, Christabelle Dragoo and Angela Rovak. Dear First-Generation Students, Faculty, and Staff –. And now, as Co-Chairs, we are honored to be here to help you reach your goal of becoming a first-generation college graduate ! SAVE THE DATE!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

NJCU hands thousands of first-generation students a valuable diploma and gives them a shot at a secure, middle-class life—and we are proud that legacy is, for now, secure.” And just this month, the school announced its first academic master plan. We will be poised to enter 2025 in a much stronger position,” Acebo said. “[We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

In explaining the decision, Lafayette’s president Nicole Hurd noted that first-generation and low-income students often have challenges amassing a high number of activities, and are unaware that valuable experiences like caregiving or working can be listed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

I was a first-generation college student, neither of my parents went to college, she says. This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D. in educational leadership, enabling her to deepen her impact by developing innovative strategies to improve access, equity, and success in higher education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

This strategy is designed to point to student success, especially for Black, brown, queer, disabled, first-generation, nontraditional, and economically vulnerable students who are invested in gender equity.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Soft Launch of This Year’s Financial Aid Application is Causing Frustration For months, parents, students, and financial aid experts alike have been waiting for the 2024-2025 FAFSA to go live. Right now, the best thing families and students can do is finish filing their FAFSA for the 2024-2025 year. There are still too many unknowns.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

He was a first-generation college student as many of them are, and as an undergraduate he explored both environmental science and environmental engineering. The ability that environmental engineering provides to address problems totally captivated him.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

She became the first in her family to attend college, struggling through first-generation woes like the unfamiliarity with FAFSA, scholarships, or even how to pay for her attendance. Her family was poor, so much so that in the summers Cureton would miss the consistency of the lunches offered by school cafeterias.

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COE

JULY 9, 2024

The Council invites applicants for the 2025 Thomas R. Donate Partner Through strategic collaborations, we work to strengthen quality, opportunity and access to education for all American students — the next generation of global leaders. As a result, I secured my current position as a staff assistant in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

high school GPA and complete their FAFSA and college application by May 1, 2025, for enrollment in Fall 2025. The institution has a history of serving first-generation college students and emphasizes small class sizes and personalized attention. To qualify, incoming freshmen must maintain a minimum 3.5

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

MAY 6, 2024

The 2024-2025 application cycle has been absolutely wild – so don’t take this year as an example of what the cycle is like. These delays are impacting all students, as they feel more rushed to make decisions about what to do – but low-income and first-generation students may feel this rush more deeply.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025. The number of annual graduates of color at UIA institutions has increased 93% from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. Find and share it via your podcast app!

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025. The number of annual graduates of color at UIA institutions has increased 93% from 2012-2013 to 2021-2022. Find and share it via your podcast app!

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

For those of you who haven't heard of College Greenlight, the simplest way to describe it is that we're a network of partners dedicated to supporting first generation, lower income and historically underserved students on their path to and through higher education. JS: Thank you, Jordan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In May of 1985 before he died in November of that year, he shed tears as he watched me walk across the stage a college graduate, a first-generation student literally willed into existence by my family that did not even know the meaning of that term. Later, my sister became a college graduate as well and an elementary school teacher.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

When I heard about it, I said, Well, thats nice, but I had no idea that somebody thought I should become a recipient, says Gates, who is the 2025 recipient of the Dr. John Hope Franklin award, presented by Diverse.

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COE

MARCH 10, 2023

Yesterday, the Biden-Harris Administration released its budget request to Congress for Fiscal Year 2024 (Program Year 2024-2025). REGISTER HERE Thank you for your continued advocacy for TRIO programs and the first-generation, low-income students and students with disabilities you serve. billion in FY24. billion in FY24.

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COE

MARCH 11, 2024

However, among several requests for flat or even decreased funding in the education arena, we are pleased to see that the President’s budget includes an increase of $20 million for the Federal TRIO Programs in Fiscal Year 2025 (FY25), which would fund TRIO during Program Year 2025-2026. Get in Touch Questions?

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COE

MARCH 20, 2024

She stated firmly, “We are asking for a $68 million increase for TRIO for FY25, which will fund our work in Program Year 2025-2026.” She declared, “TRIO programs and the TRIO coalition are multi-racial networks unified by the principle of access and support for low-income, potential first-generation college graduates.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

The panelists also highlighted the impact of Project 2025 and the potential shift of federal loan programs to the Treasury Department, which could change loan processes, interest rates, and repayment structures. It would really impact our underserved communities, low-income students, and first-generation college students, she said.

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