Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 33% of ASU’s enrollment is dual credit students (3,700 students taking both high school and college courses), 43% of whom are Latinos and first-generation college students. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns. asks Delgado.

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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

MARCH 26, 2024

A focus on first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students — serving their needs is essential,” Dr. Marybeth Gasman, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education at Rutgers University, wrote in an email to Diverse. Scholars also expressed some dissatisfaction with what the bill leaves out.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

For underrepresented groups such as first-generation college students, students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and those from low-income backgrounds additional pressures and other factors like stigma or lack of awareness, often compound these challenges and cause students to hold back from seeking the care and support they need to thrive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

He joined the faculty of Connecticut College in 2003, and was an associate professor of history, director of the African American studies program as well as interim dean of institutional equity and inclusion, chair of the history department and director of the Center of the Comparative Study of Race and Ethnicity.

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EAB

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Their vision focused on student success, inclusion, and a commitment to providing equitable opportunities for all students to thrive in their academic pursuits. This group comprised individuals from various departments, including advising, financial aid, multicultural centers, and the dean of students' office.

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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. Or a counselor to say, "Hey, what should I do about college advising?",

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed. Dr. Erik M. Frazier, R.-M.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 8, 2024

UIA institutions are deeply committed to producing more low-income graduates, first generation graduates, and graduates of color across the country, and their efforts are paying off. Our most popular were Logic Models for Program Design and the Future of Advising. Learn more about joining the Lab.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

We asked Chancellor Larive her thoughts about keeping people engaged, focused on what they have to do today, and hopeful about what's ahead, and she spoke about the transformational power of higher education: "Higher education changed my life from a low-income, first-generation college student. We do that every day at universities.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Then our other surveys, Race Ethnicity Survey, and it just helps colleges understand their student experience with racism, inclusion and belonging. And so we also included some items on the survey about advising, transfer advising, how often they had sort those things out, if they knew about those things.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. We have another organization on campus that works with first generation students. I teach with a NFL football player named Brandon Copeland.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

brought innovation, excellence, and inclusion to community colleges. His philosophy was if we admit them, let’s make sure we’re doing everything possible — financial aid, better counseling, better advisement, tracking courses — to make sure the students who are admitted have an opportunity to do well.”

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COE

JULY 17, 2023

The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE), the leading non-profit organization dedicated to expanding educational opportunities for low-income, first-generation students, announced today the appointment of Aaron Brown, Ph.D., WASHINGTON, D.C. as its new executive vice president.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Lineage C: Next-generation advising First-year experience programs precipitated a build-out of professional advising staff assigned to first-year and undeclared students. This gave rise to holistic advising practices that addressed academic, financial, and personal needs all at once.

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COE

JULY 12, 2024

Hamm As more first-generation college students enroll in higher education, this course becomes not just timely but essential, highlighting the growing need for support and guidance in their educational journeys. . — Developing a list of campus or organizational resources that support first-generation college students’ success.

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COE

AUGUST 9, 2024

These programs provide educational support to students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds, helping them to succeed in higher education and beyond. His leadership has driven positive change and fostered a spirit of inclusivity and progress in his community; he serves as the Town Supervisor of Plattsburgh, New York.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

They also advise Active Minds national staff on student engagement, community building, program planning, Chapter engagement and management, National Conference planning, and program promotion. She even started her own nonprofit, Beyond Taiwan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Ohio State University announced Thursday it will close its Office of Diversity and Inclusion and modify scholarship programs geared toward diverse student populations, citing pressure from federal directives and pending state legislation. Carter assured that current student scholarships and financial aid will not be affected by these changes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 12, 2024

Whether that was true action statements, donations, or implementing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) training, everyone was scrambling around, trying to be reactive change agents. How can private and public universities work together to continue inclusive initiatives? Is there room for support?

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

As a first-generation college student from a low-income family in Eastern Kentucky Appalachia, I needed TRIO to prepare me for higher education, said TRIO Upward Bound and Student Support Services alumnus Charles Hargis. TRIO is not just a programit is a movement of resilience, potential, and hope, said Jones. this summer.

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COE

MAY 2, 2025

Hamm President Trumps newly released 2026 budget proposes the complete elimination of the Federal TRIO Programs, which have helped millions of low-income, first-generation students – including veterans, adult learners, and students with disabilities – succeed in higher education for over 60 years. WASHINGTON, D.C.

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