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Proposed TRIO Cut Jeopardizes At-Risk Students’ Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. McNair Scholars Program through TRIO helped me earn my Ph.D.

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Duke University Uses Peer Mentorship to Support First-Generation, Low-Income Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DukeLIFE (Lower-Income, First-Generation Engagement) is dedicated to supporting the 20% of Duke’s student population that identifies as first-generation, low-income (FGLI). The office offers academic and financial support, faculty and resource connections, and peer mentorship.

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Legacy of Equity Chancellor Joseph Garcia’s Transformative Leadership in Colorado

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Serving, studying, and being mentored by this living legend has been the blessing of a lifetime. Community colleges serve the largest proportion of first-generation students, low-income students, students of color, and non-traditional students— populations critical to America’s economic future.

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Advocating Policy, Better Than Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He combines passion, knowledge, and charisma to persuade policy makers to do the right thing for low-income students. At Sonoma State, I witnessed firsthand how targeted support can influence the educational trajectory of low-income, first-generation, or BIPOC students,” says Rodriguez.

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Dr. Erika A. Taylor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Associate Professor of Chemistry; Director of McNair Program, Wesleyan University Taylor, associate professor of chemistry, environmental studies and integrative sciences, joined the Wesleyan faculty in 2007. She holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry with honors from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, a Ph.D.

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

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Serving that ideal, and serving Earlham’s students and faculty, is why I am so excited to become part of the community.” His work as a faculty member and leader resonates with Earlham's mission and Principles and Practices. Levin Family Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I

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