Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2025

A first-generation college student raised in rural Wyoming,Tromp brings nearly 30 years of experience in higher education. A humanities scholar with a concentration in Victorian literature and culture, Tromp has published nine books and dozens of peer-reviewed papers.

University

Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

As a first-generation undocumented immigrant and the president of the CCNY Dream Team, Juky is passionate about advocating for marginalized communities, particularly undocumented and BIPOC students. He is passionate about the intersections of racial health equity, health policy, and social justice activism.

Mental health

Active Minds

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Mental health advocacy is important to me because its facet of human life that we dont think about. Free university education for all would be a relief for generations to come. I attend Howard University, and I am a psychology major and human development minor. Why is mental health advocacy important to you?

Mental health

College Planners of America

JULY 25, 2025

Among first-generation college students and those in underrepresented groups, exam-takers earning a CLEP score of 50 or higher have significantly higher retention and graduation rates than their classmates. Taking a Remote CLEP Exam at Home CLEP offers all exam-takers the option of taking exams at home with remote human proctoring.

Mathematics

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As a first-generation undocumented immigrant and the president of the CCNY Dream Team, Juky is passionate about advocating for marginalized communities, particularly undocumented and BIPOC students. He is passionate about the intersections of racial health equity, health policy, and social justice activism.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

He provided historical context for the ED, highlighting its roots in addressing racial inequality and human rights. Dr. Marvin Lynn "The Department of Education really exists within the context of the ongoing struggle for civil and basic human rights, he said. Lynn warned that the U.S.

Education

COE

JULY 24, 2025

TRIO Future Leaders Summit Ignites Passion and Purpose in First-Generation Students Nationwide July 24, 2025 — by Terrance L. Hamm As TRIO programs face mounting political threats, the stories and strength displayed at the Future Leaders Summit are a timely reminder: investment in potential pays dividends for generations.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

This is especially critical for the many first-generation college students who call our campuses home. These students are often navigating systems that not only werent built in mind, but were purposely built to exclude them in the first place.

Success

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

As a first-generation college student from a low-income family in Eastern Kentucky Appalachia, I needed TRIO to prepare me for higher education, said TRIO Upward Bound and Student Support Services alumnus Charles Hargis. Blog National Student Leadership Congress has opened my eyes: Future leaders realize their power in D.C.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

Delegate Mike Cherry described the community college system as an "important link" in Virginia's higher education offerings, particularly for first-generation and working adult families. Meanwhile, Republican legislators have applauded the board's decision.

Community college

COE

JULY 10, 2025

They represent what’s possible when we give students from low-income and first-generation backgrounds a real opportunity to thrive.” Olaf College with preparing her to persevere as a first-generation college student and young mother. These exemplary leaders embody resilience, purpose, and commitment to giving back.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

As a first-generation college graduate and the first-ever female, Hispanic president of St. Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start.

First generation

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. At the latter, she was the founding dean of the College of Health Sciences and Human Services. This leadership position enables her to further her commitment to inclusive excellence.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 29, 2024

Hicks is a tenured full professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at East Tennessee State University, where he has served as a dean for the Clemmer College of Education and Human Development.

Counseling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

For his leadership, LeBlanc – a first-generation college graduate – was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and one of the “most influential people in higher education,” in addition to winning the TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education in 2018.

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

The University of Florida is--and will always be--unwavering in our commitment to university human dignity," the memo read. " A memo to employees pointed to a new regulation for the Board of Governors that wiped away a $5 million budget that had been committed to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. "The

University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Both are first-generation college students, grew up in migrant farming communities, have a background in mathematics, and served as president of MCCCD institutions (before Gonzales became chancellor of MCCCD). I can relate to some of those fears and unknowns as a first-generation student when you just don’t know what you don’t know.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. If we have computers that can operate certain aspects of the higher education environment, then we can re-prioritize what humans do. AI also has institutional implications. Of course, potential privacy issues would have to be resolved.)

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

3. Big Sean (“Sacrifices”, 2017) “The human race is all about pacing. First generation college students are tasked with the tumultuous role of paving their own road. Cause chances are never given, they’re tooken like interceptions” Being pro-active in college can take a level of aggression and fortitude.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“I kind of defied them a little bit and said, ‘I want to help with peoples’ mental health and talk a little bit about how maybe bullying or trauma or domestic abuse can also impact their actual health, in addition to their physical health,’” says Mendoza, a first-generation Filipino immigrant who came to the U.S.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians also in 2019; and a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020. Neither did college.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A first-generation Mexican-American and first-generation college student, Gonzalez says she has always been motivated to help her family move up the social mobility ladder. Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible.

Mentoring

Active Minds

MARCH 11, 2024

Learn more about our 2024 Emerging Scholars and their incredible research: Denisse Aguilar Michel Mental Health of College Students: Lasting Impact of Covid-19 Denisse Aguilar is a first-generation immigrant and undergraduate student at Goshen College, double majoring in psychology and sociology with a concentration in women’s studies.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Disaggregated research on how civic engagement pedagogies impact students of color, rural, low-income, and first-generation students is also sparse. It’s an opportunity to think about what co-curricular integration can look like,” said Dr. Ioana G. Hulbert, a researcher at Ithaka S+R and one of the authors of the study.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Bill Imada “The school that I go to is 50% students of color, 50% students that represent the first generation , and the stories that I continue to hear every single day from the students that I go to school with inspire me ,” he said. “ I t’s just a more fulfilling work environment.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

There was also a robust focus on the humanities. From the conference’s opening panel to workshops and breakout sessions held throughout the four-day event, the importance of centering equity was a central theme of the conference. ATD is not just a conference,” says Dr. Karen A. Stout, who has led the organization since 2015.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians also in 2019; and a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020. Neither did college.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. She describes him as a “genuinely amazing human being” who “cares about everyone.” students. “I I could never pay [back] the mentoring that faculty of color have given me as I have navigated higher education,” he said.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. She describes him as a “genuinely amazing human being” who “cares about everyone.” students. “I I could never pay [back] the mentoring that faculty of color have given me as I have navigated higher education,” he said.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation. remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. Dr. Luis A.

Mathematics

Active Minds

JUNE 22, 2023

I occasionally volunteer with my local Habitat for Humanity and urban farm, but if I had the time, I would invest more heavily in it. I really resonated with the main character, and reading it helped me feel closer to my culture as a first-generation immigrant. I really want to learn gardening and carpentry. I move constantly.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

She became the first in her family to attend college, struggling through first-generation woes like the unfamiliarity with FAFSA, scholarships, or even how to pay for her attendance. Larry Mayo (DePaul University) Education: B.A. For Cureton, education was the key to living her dreams.

Teaching

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JULY 28, 2023

“Lacey is incisive while humble; passionate while balanced; and the most complete representation of a servant leader.” As Vice President for Planning and Operations, Lacey oversaw critical aspects of operations including finances, information technology, human resources, and convenings.

Equity

The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

The current generation isn't creating new content on its own. It's learning because human beings are giving it more information and context to do a better job of responding. There's a lot of human intervention. It's remarkable at producing human-like writing, but it occasionally makes false, misleading, and biased content.

Communication