Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. The funding will allow for the hiring of four new student support advocates, who will offer dedicated attention and guidance to these students as they pursue their degrees.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

To accomplish this goal and meet the student demand for peer mentorship, DukeLIFE connected with Mentor Collective, a company with over 180 institutional partners that helps students build relationships with each other. Our campus climate, our institutional culture, is created to be collaborative, and FGLI students have to learn that.”

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

AACTE officials said that this year’s theme, “Ascending New Heights: Propelling the Profession into the Future,” aligns with the association’s vision and mission “to revolutionize education for all learners by elevation education and educator preparation through research, professional practice, advocacy, and collaboration.”

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Manny Rodriguez His job entails research and collaboration with other education groups, state legislators, and education officials in accordance with TICAS’s mission to increase college access, affordability, and success through improvements in student financial aid policies. He’s a great asset in California.”

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

The graduation rate for URM at four-year public institutions (4YP) increased 9 percentage points from 2016-17 to 2022-23, and the graduation rate for low-income students increased 10 percentage points in that time period. Funding for low-income students in Kentucky’s performance funding model has increased.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

It’s about developing new and exciting collaborations that break down barriers between industries and sectors to seize upon common interests, goals and complementary capabilities. Social media is also a way to express appreciation for colleagues and collaborators.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 6, 2022

The Aspen Institute College Excellence Program and Columbia University’s Community College Research Center will be collaborating to produce two publications in support of ultimately improving transfer student outcomes, particularly for students of color and low-income students.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Yet less than 12% of resident 18-to-24-year-old students enrolled in our public universities are Hispanic. We see similar enrollment gaps for African American students, rural students, and low-income students. About 60% of our state university students graduate within six years.

Guided pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

As minoritized individuals and scholars, we must set the record straight on several real ‘issues/problems’ confronting students of color. This proactive cultural responsiveness and affirmation includes equipping marginalized students with the abilities, skills, and dispositions needed to enhance their core academic content knowledge (e.g.,

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

These tweaks can help specific subgroups of students, but they also help all students. In addition to coaching, shes making connections among the presidents and forging collaboration within the expanding network. ADT spends a good deal of time on peer and cohort learning.

Community college

Close the Gap Foundation

JUNE 15, 2022

The Fellowship leverages project-based learning, structured mentorship, and tailored workshops to help rising 11th and 12th-grade students recognize and embrace their potential through the planning, executing, and presenting a social impact project to better their communities.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

We collaborate with over 25 community partners where students obtain professional experience while serving the community.” To date, 391 students, 98.72% of them Latino, have collaborated with more than 25 non-profit organizations for a total of 6,782 hours.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Many have had experiences like the students with which they’re working. He endeavors to get innovative ideas funded and constantly meets with people within and outside the university who are interested in collaborating or seeking information and guidance about replicating all or parts of AAP.

Success

The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Completion grants are an emerging form of student aid. million) to low-income students facing modest financial hurdles to degree completion as they neared graduation. The lab launched this year, and we're excited to celebrate this hub where faculty and staff from our member universities can collaborate.

Student success

The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Lack of adequate career preparation can be especially harmful to students from low-income backgrounds seeking to expand their career options and increase their lifelong earning potential through college education. These key student needs catalyzed innovative career readiness solutions that were pilot tested on each campus.

Low income student

Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

Data suggests that nearly 98% of students who complete these degrees find employment in the same field of study as their degree. Collaborating with local businesses to create training programs that meet specific industry needs. Many institutions may lack the necessary resources to provide these services, affecting persistence rates.

Community college

Believe in Students

OCTOBER 10, 2024

I was overjoyed to have the concrete example of what these educators were willing to do for their students, for free (and often putting their own money in), in the midst of their own upended lives. Second, I had spent about fifteen years working to improve college success for first-gen, low-income students.

Curriculum

COE

AUGUST 13, 2023

Breaking Barriers in Finance: The Impact of TRIO on Student Support Services Alumna Ashley Thomas August 14, 2023 — by Holly Hexter, Neve Dole B Ashley Thomas spearheaded a strategic collaboration bridging TRIO Programs with Thermo Fisher Scientific.

Literacy

The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 19, 2024

Our mission is nothing less than transforming higher education through the kind of effective collaboration that accelerates innovation. When people outside the UIA fully engage with us, they comment about the higher-quality experience they have with us versus what they see in other collaboratives.

University

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. We know that when universities collaborate, students win -- and when students win, our country's future is bright.

Advising

COE

APRIL 7, 2023

Through its myriad membership services, the Council works with colleges, universities, and agencies that host federal TRIO programs that help more than 800,000 low-income students and students with disabilities each year receive college access and retention services.

Grant

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

bridget Mon, 02/26/2024 - 00:33 As a tiny but mighty nonprofit organization committed to transforming higher education through effective collaboration that accelerates innovation, the UIA frequently wrestles with how we can include more people and institutions with our limited resources and small team. Expanding Our Impact and Who We serve.

Collaboration

The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We raised $5 million for cutting-edge collaborative innovation projects, and we welcomed new colleagues and partners to the digital ecosystem of our University Innovation Lab. We know that when universities collaborate, students win -- and when students win, our country's future is bright.

Advising

Close the Gap Foundation

MARCH 15, 2022

Every student who completes the 2022 Social Impact Fellowship will receive a refurbished MacBook. Throughout the 12-week program, Fellows will utilize the donated MacBook laptops to connect with other students through project-based learning , collaborate with their mentors, and participate in tailored workshops.

Mentoring

COE

APRIL 16, 2024

We aim to demystify the graduate school application process, particularly for first-generation black, indigenous, and other people of color (BIPOC, nontraditional, and low-income students who often lack access to essential resources. Hamm Support Us If you are a student support services professional, thank you.

Nontraditional student

The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 12, 2024

Burns prefers sharing the UIA’s vision and work rather than her personal journey, she explained how her experiences helped inform the Alliance’s goals: “A lot of first-generation and low-income students get bad advice. Everybody works in silos and there’s not enough collaboration. It’s a highly competitive environment.

Student success

COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

My new role as the president of COE is both exhilarating and daunting as I know I will encounter new challenges that have broad implications for our students. However, I am ready to serve and continue the work necessary to ensure success for our first-generation, low-income students in getting to and through college.

Higher education

NACAC's Admitted

AUGUST 10, 2023

iStock NACAC, in collaboration with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and several other organizations, is carefully exploring admission policies and practices in an increasingly test-optional or test-free environment. How and why did institutions decide whether to go test-optional (and, if so, in what form)?

Equity

College Planners of America

APRIL 5, 2024

The ED stated that “In collaboration with the IRS, we will determine the scope, impact, and remedy for any potential issues identified. Low-income students will get more aid and more students will be eligible for grants. Long term, most educators think that new FAFSA will be better than the old one.

FAFSA

College Planners of America

APRIL 5, 2024

The ED stated that “In collaboration with the IRS, we will determine the scope, impact, and remedy for any potential issues identified. Low-income students will get more aid and more students will be eligible for grants. Long term, most educators think that new FAFSA will be better than the old one.

FAFSA

The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

“When I came back to West Virginia, I wrote a Strengthening Community Colleges project in collaboration with colleagues in Parkersburg. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.” And that got us the grant. How do we fix it?’

Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 13, 2024

A group of college presidents and chancellors united around a shared sense of urgency that we were doing a bad job of graduating students, especially low-income students. Everybody works in silos and there’s not enough collaboration. There are more collaboratives now doing similar work, groundbreaking initiatives.

Student success

Student Research Foundation

AUGUST 7, 2024

For instance, students applying via the QuestBridge National Match Program , a scholarship program for first-generation and low-income students, will have to apply by September 26. These are sessions where students meet with their advisors to ask questions and collaborate “in person,” though these are usually video calls.

Counseling

School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Society was capable of showing more creativity, collaboration, and innovative leadership. Children’s Literacy Initiative: The Children’s Literacy Initiative (CLI) helps to ensure that low-income students are able to read at or above their grade level. CLI provides materials, workshops, and coaching.

Financial aid

EAB

MAY 23, 2023

There are things like active and collaborative learning, student faculty interactions, student effort, support for learners and so on. And so the area that decreased the most was active and collaborative learning. I talked earlier about that active and collaborative learning benchmark.

Guided pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

Williams They continue to be essential beacons of higher education for the talented students who attend them. Not only do HBCUs enroll twice as many first-generation, low-income students, but they also outperform peer institutions in improving the economic standing of their students.

Low income student

COE

MAY 10, 2024

The 2024 Indicators of Higher Education Equity in the United States report reveals alarming trends indicating increasing inequity of opportunity in higher education, particularly for low-income students. “The alarms are sounding for the U.S., Its membership includes more than 1,000 colleges and agencies.

Low income student