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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education leaders face an obligation to Kansas families to remove barriers to access and success and ensure that our system lives up to the ideal of equal opportunity for all. Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? Structural change is needed.

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Higher Ed Officials Express Uncertainty Amid Further FAFSA Delays

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Dr. J. Luke Wood to Become President of Sacramento State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse. “The

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What We’re Learning About the Dual Enrollment Student Experience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To understand how to ensure better access and promote positive outcomes for all students in dual enrollment programs, community colleges need to understand the dual enrollment experience from the perspective of students themselves. . … I knew what my homework was going to be like in the future.” The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs.

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AASCU President Dr. Mildred García Appointed Chancellor of the California State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as CSU chancellor allows me to continue my deep commitment to serving the new majority of students – low-income, first-generation, and/or students of color –and to expand their access to postsecondary education.

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Melvin C. Terrell Scholars Dive into Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I

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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For graduate students and professionals interested in an academic career, it is important to understand the differences between selective admission institutions, focused on research, publication, and the expansion of knowledge, and those that are open-access, focused on teaching and student learning. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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