Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

While working at the medical school, Witcher Walker developed a deep passion for enhancing the student experience, recognizing the critical role support systems play in shaping academic and personal success. I was a first-generation college student, neither of my parents went to college, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Without the data, it’s hard to tell anything definitively. percent who are first generation college students. Or maybe it’s because of other factors that have come into play since the Supreme Court decision putting an end affirmative action. Nor can it be said if the number of Asian students has dropped. And there are 20.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Non-first-generation students were 2.5 points for potential first-generation students. However, although direct admissions was successful in making students more likely to apply to college, it did not have the power to make them go. Whereas white students who received a direct admissions offer were 2.4

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Without the data, it’s hard to tell anything definitively. percent who are first generation college students. Or maybe it’s because of other factors that have come into play since the Supreme Court decision putting an end affirmative action. Nor can it be said if the number of Asian students has dropped. And there are 20.5

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. The Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences opened in 2014, adding 30 new degrees or programs as well as Mary Baldwin’s first doctoral degrees.

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Student Research Foundation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Kirk Daulerio, Co-Founder, Mainstay, writing in Bridging the Gap: How can emerging technology chart pathways to completion for first-generation students?, Some findings include: First-generation students are less confident about attending college. points higher than non-first-generation students.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

MAY 6, 2024

The bottom line is that if you don’t file the FAFSA, you definitely won’t receive any aid for school. These delays are impacting all students, as they feel more rushed to make decisions about what to do – but low-income and first-generation students may feel this rush more deeply.

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The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Career services offices, like higher education more broadly, have struggled with access and opportunity issues for first-generation and low-income students. One result of this effort was the definition of robust campus-employer partnerships, co-created by BGEE campus teams, EWG members, and students.

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Close the Gap Foundation

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Forbes Under 30 Circles connect Forbes 30 Under 30 Listers with first-generation, low-income (FGLI) high school and college students looking to expand their networks and their definition of success.

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Close the Gap Foundation

MARCH 18, 2023

The team at Close the Gap (CtG), spoke with the many talented fellows and mentors about their experience with the Close the Gap Social Impact Fellowship program, as well as their support for the first generation, low income (FGLI) community. There is definitely a lot of trial and error and just trying to do enough to stand out.

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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. And so when we're working with colleges, it's helpful.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

Alan Sugg was an incredibly effective leader, very kind, very engaging, and everything came back to student success. He gave me my first opportunity when I probably didn't deserve it, but he believed in what was possible. Throughout my career, I've tried to take some of those lessons about relationships. You're approachable.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

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.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

Additionally, this team researches best practices and trends related to community college success as a way to grow the community of practice within the two-year sphere. Does this college support you financially to complete your education and to be successful? And I'd love to hear more about what you've learned in that area.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB · How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence the College Journey LEARN ABOUT COLLEGE GREENLIGHT College Greenlight is the nation's largest community of professionals supporting and recruiting first-generation, lower-income, and historically underserved students. Why do you need that? What do you do? I know we are in a chaotic place.

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EAB

AUGUST 29, 2023

I think the challenge for higher enrollment leaders and higher ed in general is, if there are 2500 schools in the country that offer baccalaureate degrees, you're all offering a baccalaureate degree. MR: Number four is recruiting generation P, the students in the pandemic, and we'll talk about them a little bit more.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 2, 2025

As a first-generation Black graduate student attending a large PWI research one university, I recognized the importance of leveraging my cultural assets to persist Jason K. asserted that first-generation Black students, in particular, demonstrate exceptional resilience, often overcoming obstacles in their personal and academic lives.

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