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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is also HISPA’s Latinos in College, a leadership development program for mostly first-year, first-generation students. It has been a very solid approach to achieve our goal of eradicating the lack of role models and obstacles to achieve higher education of our Latino students,” says Diaz-Claisse.

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AASCU Selects 29 Participants for 2023 Millennium Leadership Initiative

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) has selected the 29 senior-level higher education professionals for its 2023 Millennium Leadership Initiative (MLI). MLI stands as a magnet for talented people looking to bring something different to American higher education leadership.

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Developing Leaders

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A lot of that had to do with leadership and people’s perceptions of leaders, leadership development, and leadership emergence,” she says. She also serves as a liaison between the undergraduate scholarship organizations, one of which is focused on first-generation college students, and upper leadership.

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Cultivating a Culture of ‘Servingness:’ Institutional Considerations for Emerging Hispanic Serving Institutions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s easy these days to feel pessimistic about the state of higher education. Amid these tensions, Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs) represent a promising opportunity to reinvigorate and expand the national higher education narrative.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices.

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Women's Liberal Arts College Allows Students to Travel Globally as Part of First-Year Course

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many of our students are first-generation students. The program – now in its eighth year and is open to all undergraduate first-year students – offers approximately 15 different courses every spring semester under the program umbrella, said Graml, who directs Agnes Scott’s Center for Global Learning.

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“The aim for active listening to students, staff, faculty, community members, and UofL stakeholders anchors my work in making impactful connections, and my team’s efforts in student coaching and leadership development, cultural programming, and resource-sharing,” says Bennett.

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