Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Leadership strategies must clearly demonstrate that there is an intentional focus on Latino student success at the institutional level. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As covered in Inside Higher Ed : “One particularly troubling enrollment trend exacerbated by the pandemic … is the decline of underrepresented groups—specifically Black, first-generation and low-income students. Finally, scholarship providers are in a unique position to help students develop peer networks among their fellow recipients.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

We asked Chancellor Larive her thoughts about keeping people engaged, focused on what they have to do today, and hopeful about what's ahead, and she spoke about the transformational power of higher education: "Higher education changed my life from a low-income, first-generation college student. We do that every day at universities.

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