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Mott Community College Receives $156,000 for Initiative to Support Immigrant, Refugee, and First-Generation Students

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Mott Community College (MCC) has received $156,000 to implement an initiative aimed at better supporting immigrant, refugee, and first-generation students, The County Press reported. Mott Community College MCC’s initiative is called Pathways to Success: Empowering Immigrant Futures (EIF). The grant – from the Michigan Dept.

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Yale Pledges $10M Toward HBCU Partnerships, Following Slavery Apology

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-level careers in research — for students who come from an economically disadvantaged background, are first-generation college students, or have faced significant obstacles in pursuit of higher education. programs.

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Diversity at HBCUs Explored at NCAA Inclusion Forum

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Dorsey, II, dean of student involvement and leadership at University of Arkansas, Pine Bluff, adding that focusing on the places where students come from can help to facilitate a culture of belonging on campus. We have first-generation students and students from different social economic backgrounds,” said Ruffin.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Active Minds’ 2023 Emerging Scholars Break Down Mental Health Barriers

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Active Minds is excited to empower our scholars and see how their projects facilitate change and pave the way towards a more inclusive, just society. Her interest broadly includes facilitating authenticity, freedom, and emotional ex pression through innovation and creation pertaining to diverse Black psychological experiences.

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

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To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. By allowing the credits from one program to stack toward a higher credential, institutions can facilitate the upward mobility of their learners.

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New Research on BIPOC Mental Health Debuted at Active Minds Conference

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The fellows covered topics of the experiences in communication, language, inclusion, and stigma about mental health in Asian communities, the importance and influences of Latine Academic Families and the matriculation of Latine students, and the impact of mental health on first-generation college students. Name : Jadon A.