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

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Williams became the director of the Career Advancement Center, where he would spend the next five years inviting first generation, low-income students, women, LGBTQ+, and other under-represented undergraduates into pursuing their graduate degrees. We’re in a nuanced landscape right now.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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Aaron Thompson, president of the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), participated in the Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit put together by the U.S. percentage point increase in dual credit participation among low-income students from the 2016 senior class to the 2021 senior class.

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Report Presents New Approach to Increasing Completion Rates at Public Institutions

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What we need to do is make a funding model that’s based on an attainment goal, work it backwards with equity at the heart so that we can actually have these colleges act as the engines of social mobility that they’re supposed to be.” There are things that colleges and universities need to do to increase graduation rates,” said Ansell. “We

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Leaning Into Best Practices

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We’re also one of the largest enrollers of Pell Grant students in the country, enrolling about 30,000 Pell students every semester.” Students were unenrolling for “the wrong reason,” he says, like having performed poorly on a quiz but being unfamiliar with institutional resources that could help them.

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Admissions After the Supreme Court Ruling: Understanding Inequality in Extracurricular Activities

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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. When they are able to join, they often excel.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

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Also, ensuring that there’s equity in the experiences of our students. This involves foundations with equity missions similar to those of the colleges. Innovations Smith said a rebound in community college enrollment is largely due to dual enrollment, which allows high school students to take community college courses.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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California State University offers programs such as Chico’s Gradu- ate Equity Fellowship Program to help students explore whether to pursue a doctorate degree. Knowing that thanks to service-learning my students are gaining professional experience before graduating and impacting their surrounding community is very rewarding.”

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