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JUNE 16, 2025

Since 1964, the TRIO federal program has helped low-income students, first-generation college students, students with disabilities, and veterans earn college degrees. TRIO helped me as a first-generation college student in ways my family couldn’t. is slipping in global rankings for postsecondary degree attainment.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

“When I first met with my advisor, I was excited to dive into my program,” says Maria, a first-generation community college student. This dynamic not only informs how we advocate for students but also shapes how we collaborate with faculty, staff, and other leaders to build systems that uplift every learner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

As the nation recently observed this year’s Fourth of July, Bethune-Cookman University, along with others like it, continues to successfully educate more first-generation students, Pell recipients, and Black professionals than our numbers would predict.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

The first few convenings focused on career readiness and the Career Pathways Initiative, but we quickly realized the need for a bigger tent a space where HBCUs can engage on issues of leadership, financial health, academic transformation, student success, and institutional collaboration. HBCUs have always been innovating for generations.

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APRIL 1, 2025

Her career has been dedicated to fostering access and achievement for underrepresented students, particularly Indigenous and first-generation learners. Over the past three years at Fort Lewis College, I have developed a deep love for this institution and have been inspired by the amazing work of our faculty, staff, and students."

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college. Dr. Dereck J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 17, 2025

Under Jordan’s leadership, SMCM saw a 71% increase in undergraduate admission applications, a 30% increase in first-generation students, a 20% increase in historically underrepresented and/or marginalized students, and a significant jump in alumni engagement. “We Faculty will come and faculty will go, but that site will remain.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2025

In its 2021 report HBCUs Transforming Generations: Social Mobility Outcomes for HBCU Alumni , UNCF, (the United Negro College Fund) detailed the Move into Middle Class+ mobility rate and its efficiency as a measure of social mobility for Black students at HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2025

As a first-generation Black college graduate from a low-income family, I reaped the benefits of mentorship from faculty and staff who come from similar backgrounds. Their guidance helped me discover my true calling in higher education, ultimately leading me to secure my dream job at UT.

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JUNE 26, 2025

In its 2021 report HBCUs Transforming Generations: Social Mobility Outcomes for HBCU Alumni , the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) detailed the Move into Middle Class+ mobility rate and its efficiency as a measure of social mobility for Black students at HBCUs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Such a dual designation, he added, reflects the university's broader goal to support diversity and equity across the student body, faculty, and campus culture. All nine UC undergraduate campuses are now AANAPISI-designated, and several, including UCLA, are also working toward gaining Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2025

Bellisario College of Communications at Pennsylvania State University since 2014 and has been a member of the Penn State faculty since 2003, was announced as the 10th president of Quinnipiac University in Connecticut. A first-generation college student, Hardin earned a Ph.D. Hardin will begin work at Quinnipiac on July 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2025

With declining numbers of traditional college-age white middle-class students, Garcia emphasizes the necessity of effectively reaching lower-income, first-generation students and students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

A first-generation college graduate, Wilks earned her undergraduate degree from North Carolina A&T State University and a Ph.D. "I am deeply honored to serve as the next President of Clinton College," said Wilks. Clinton holds a sacred legacy grounded in faith, resilience, and opportunity. Zion Church."

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MAY 8, 2025

Lavariega Monforti has authored over 50 scholarly publications and secured more than $10 million in grant funding to support student achievement and faculty research. She is a past president of the Western Political Science Association and co-founder of the national Women of Color in Political Science Workshop.

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DECEMBER 18, 2024

For underrepresented groups such as first-generation college students, students of color, LGBTQIA+ students, and those from low-income backgrounds additional pressures and other factors like stigma or lack of awareness, often compound these challenges and cause students to hold back from seeking the care and support they need to thrive.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

Nicole Pulliam In my first year as a faculty member, I was the shiny new object. As a woman of color, a first-generation college graduate, and someone raised in a limited-income home, I was celebrated for bringing fresh perspectives and ideas. Jackson in Its Not Impostor Syndrome When Youre Black and a Woman.

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MARCH 6, 2025

She was also a Faculty Representative to the Board of Trustees (2014-2019) and co-chair of the Faculty Governance Task Force (2017-2019).

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MARCH 20, 2025

A first-generation college student raised in rural Wyoming,Tromp brings nearly 30 years of experience in higher education. During her six-year tenure at Boise State, she successfully navigated the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic while increasing student enrollment and improving affordability.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2025

A study conducted by The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education reports that 410,000 first-generation immigrant students attend colleges and universities in California. In the STEM field, 40% of the workers identify as first-generation immigrants. of health aide workers share first-generation immigrant status.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

Faculty and staff dont just teachthey mentor, guide, and advocate. When a student asks for a letter of recommendation at an HBCU, its not generic; its personal. This is especially critical for the many first-generation college students who call our campuses home. At HBCUs, students are more than ID numbers.

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COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Despite decades of proven success in expanding college access and economic mobility for low-income and first-generation students, the federal TRIO programs now face elimination in the President’s budget—prompting over 10,000 alumni to urge Congress to protect this vital engine of opportunity. this summer.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

The board's decision has prompted several revisions to the system's strategic plan, including the elimination of a goal to increase full-time faculty and staff diversity by 5% by 2030. Meanwhile, Republican legislators have applauded the board's decision.

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CAMPUSPEAK

JUNE 10, 2025

Join us… The post Summer Speaker Showcase Series appeared first on CAMPUSPEAK. On Tuesdays this summer, we are hosting FREE, LIVE, 1-hour speaker showcases to highlight three unique CAMPUSPEAK speakers!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Despite his many accomplishments, meticulously documented in a 137-page curriculum vitae that lists dozens of speeches, scholarly publications, honorary degrees and faculty positions, Gates loathes being referred to as Dr. Gates or Professor Gates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

His visionary AccessUVA program dramatically expanded financial aid, opening doors for first-generation and low-income students who previously could not have considered attending the prestigious institution. Born in Portsmouth, Virginia in 1943, Casteen's journey in higher education began as a first-generation college student at UVA.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

Declining birth rates, changingstudent expectations, shifting public sentiment, and persistent underfunding place extraordinary pressure on institutions that have long served as lifelines for students of color and first-generation learners. Yet amid these challenges lies an opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

As a first-generation college graduate and the first-ever female, Hispanic president of St. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start. In addition to our CAMP scholars, the number of first-generation students at St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. The office offers academic and financial support, faculty and resource connections, and peer mentorship.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Believe in Students is urging those who work in and surrounding higher education to address the critical need now as colleges are enrolling an increasingly first-generation and low-income student population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Faculty members are sometimes questioned about their choice to teach at a community college rather than at other higher education institutions. Community college faculty are usually prepared to respond to these questions, with varying reasons for their career choice.

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MAY 26, 2023

We are committed to ensuring that our culture and climate enable every person – students, staff and faculty – to thrive and achieve at the highest levels of their aspirations, and Dr. Bergeron is exactly the right person to partner with our community to advance that mission.” in speech communication from Louisiana State University.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. Yet it is institutions who admit, retain and award doctoral degrees that then make up the pool for future faculty and academic leadership.”

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MARCH 7, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Seventy-one percent of its students are first-generation college students and more than half are Pell eligible. During her time there, she increased the diversity of tenure-track faculty and co-founded the Master of Science Physician Assistant Program, the first of its kind in the CSU system.

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