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Q&A: UNCF's Ed Smith-Lewis on the UNITE Convening and HBCU Transformation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Take, for example, the shared data infrastructure work we've been doing for a long time the foundations of data governance where we're partnering with 10 HBCUs to align definitions of higher ed terms and how they're stored in data systems. HBCUs have always been innovating for generations. But then we had a snag.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students. Our American Indian students can still learn about their history, their language, their culture by the curriculum that we offer, and non-Native students can learn about American Indian people. That is something that identifies this institution for over 30 years.

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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I was a first-generation college student, neither of my parents went to college, she says. I know there are students out there that could definitely succeed, they just need the resources. This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D. So I navigated accessing college and all of that on my own, and I felt like now it's my turn.

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The campus movement helped open the space for Black studies, and Black studies as a discipline in return would provide the curriculum that looks at the African American perspective. I taught Quest course (part of UF’s general education curriculum) with 66 students and a TA (teaching assistant); I never had a TA in my life,” Canton says. “I

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. The central value of transmitting women’s heritage and issues in the curriculum and the way Mary Baldwin’s history is celebrated are maintained.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Mark Henderson Henderson says the measure definitely influenced the enrollment of “historically excluded groups.” Acosta adds that, as a first generation Latinx himself, he wants to know that the patients from his home community will receive and look forward to better healthcare in the future.

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How Fly-Ins Impact Diversity in the Michigan Ross BBA Program

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A current Michigan student joins the discussion toward the end to share his journey as an aspiring first-generation college student and the impact that the fly-in weekend had on him. JA: Yeah, your program is definitely unique from many programs in those respects. Speaker 1: Hello. KW: Absolutely. Yeah, Kim, as you.