Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2024

This pedagogy exists when teachers modify their teaching to facilitate the achievement of marginalized students – minoritized students and low-income students. This includes modifying teaching styles and strategies to accommodate the cultural styles of students. · An Equity Pedagogy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 9, 2023

In a unique move, Lafayette College announced that they would only consider up to six extracurricular activities , versus the maximum of ten that the Common Application allows students to list. These students often have less opportunity to try (and pay for) extracurriculars. When they are able to join, they often excel. Dr. Julie J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

in mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University, his master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla and his Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from The Ohio State University, Lim entered the private sector as an engineer at Structural Dynamics Research Corporation.

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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. Thus, it is critically important that all students are provided access to a rigorous curriculum in high school to prepare them to be college and/or career ready. Dr. Donna Y. Fletcher Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

That approach is evident in the Contextualized Bridge Program, funded by the NSF, designed to provide math and chemistry skills in the summer for students who need remediation in those areas. Students attend a six-week course contextualized for their needs. We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs.

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COE

AUGUST 26, 2024

For first-generation and low-income students, these programs can be life-changing, offering experiences that might otherwise be out of reach. Learn more about COE’s opportunities for students and recent alumni.

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COE

APRIL 7, 2023

The grant will fund research to develop an evidence-based theoretical model for sustainable, equitable career pathways within colleges and universities that house TRIO programs, specifically Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC), Student Support Services (SSS), and the Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program.

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AUGUST 13, 2023

Developed first by team members in Southern California and later expanded to Boston, the curriculum has helped students at the University of San Diego, California State University San Marcos, Boston College, and the University of Massachusetts Boston.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

Although she graduated at the top of her high school class, like many of our own TRIO students emerging from under-resourced high schools, she found herself woefully unprepared for the rigors of college. She persevered and ultimately, she earned her associate’s degree from Quinnipiac College (now Quinnipiac University).

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Timely MD

JULY 6, 2022

Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCU). Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU). College students in rural communities face a scarcity of resources ARRC data confirms that RSIs serve communities facing socioeconomic disparities. High Native-enrolling (nontribal) institutions. Public two-year colleges.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Boyden Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Evidence-based Mentoring at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. Students participating in All In Milwaukee , which helps minority, first-generation students and low-income students graduate from college, have a graduation rate of 91 percent. “It

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

Note: This interview in the Weekly Wisdom Series originally aired on February 26, 2024 as part of the University Innovation Alliance’s Innovating Together Podcast , appearing live on Facebook , Twitter , and LinkedIn. Linked Mentioned in this Episode President Casey Sacks BridgeValley Community and Technical College U.S.

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The LTC Blog

AUGUST 27, 2017

Design your assessments and feedback to minimize the dynamics associated with implicit bias and stereotype threat: (From “Inclusive Assessment of Student Learning” by staff at the Sheridan Center for Teaching & Learning at Brown University). Consider using blind grading.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Efforts by the Biden administration to pass a rule on student loan forgiveness was a major story from 2023 that will again be front and center in the new year. Smith University — an HBCU (Historically Black Colleges and Universities) in North Carolina — concurs that student debt and loan forgiveness will be big stories.

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COE

JUNE 30, 2023

His visionary leadership has played a pivotal role in shaping policies and initiatives that uplift underrepresented students, helping them navigate and succeed in higher education. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement Program at the University of California, Berkeley. Brett participated in the Upward Bound program at Boston College.

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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.

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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Hamm Click to view the page: The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Million “Jurassic World Rule Your Future STEAM Initiative” Press Releases The Council for Opportunity in Education and Comcast NBCUniversal Launch $1.5 Education Bill Blog Helping Veterans Make the Most of the G.I.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Supporting First-Generation College Students This Back-to-School Season August 15, 2024 — by Nicole Brunt The Pell Institute is proud to announce the release of a new set of fact sheets that illuminate critical insights into the experiences and outcomes of first-generation, low-income students, and students with disabilities.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds the University of Louisiana-Lafayette for Inaugurating the Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association September 5, 2024 — by Terrance L. Hamm The Carmouche TRIO Alumni Association at UL Lafayette is among the first University-established alumni societies specifically for TRIO students.

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COE

MAY 8, 2023

Among those affected was the University of Maine at Presque Isle (UMPI). 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.

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COE

MAY 31, 2024

Wolanin established the program in memory of Dr. Wolanin, who championed student financial aid and college access. Wolanin was a faculty mentor of Stoner’s at the University of Wisconsin, and Stoner has been involved in supporting all five cycles of the internship program thus far. COE and the family of Thomas R. The paid Thomas R.

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COE

MARCH 10, 2023

President Biden Continues to Prioritize Federal TRIO Programs in FY 2024 Budget March 10, 2023 — by Kimberly Jones The proposed increase will help put many first-generation, low-income students on the path to college access, success, and the American Dream. Education Bill Blog Helping Veterans Make the Most of the G.I.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

The threat to shut down ED isnt new, said Dr. James Earl Davis, a professor and endowed chair of education at Temple University. Without it, she cautioned, there would be no federal civil rights division to protect students from cases of discrimination. Lynn warned that the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

I think these divides are taking a toll on students and faculty alike,” says Dr. Marybeth Gasman, Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education and associate dean for research in the Graduate School of Education at Rutgers University. They are stressed, low energy, some are afraid, and they are less hopeful.” Dr. Stella M.

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