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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. The grant is a California Student Aid Commission program.”

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Examples of Excelencia

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In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring. It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Among the services it provides to first-year students are individualized academic advising, tutoring and community-building events.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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Interim Provost Dr. Rani Roy says the school has already applied for two HSI grants and will find out in October whether they’ve been accepted. The Mount has proudly been an HSI since the late 1990s, Burns says, and about 51% of its students are Pell Grant eligible.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Grant proposals are written to support additional CEED projects. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’” Watford says. After completing his Ph.D.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. Over the past five years, EPW has served 909 students, 68% of whom are Latino.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

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We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. Students can go for tutoring, writing support and other things at no charge. The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. in management and leadership.

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs April 7, 2023 — by Terry Vaughan III The research will examine how TRIO programs can work with existing career services to provide comprehensive career support to learners.

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