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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation. This academic year, 575 students are being supported. Dr. Luis A.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. He works hard to ensure that he is living values of integrity, inclusiveness, collaboration in his work every day,” Sullivan continued. The inclusiveness has been really helpful,” continued Renfro. For Dr. Steven R.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We utilize this framework to analyze the use of diverse comics and graphic novels to facilitate critical conversations of bringing inclusive visual texts into the classroom. We also examine programs and interventions that have been specially designed to improve Black males' mathematics skills. Hines and E.C. Fletcher (Eds.).

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. asks Delgado.

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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.”

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds Senators Susan Collins, Jon Tester, Shelley Moore Capito, and Tammy Baldwin for Reintroducing Bill to Strengthen the Federal TRIO Programs

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Congress created the TRIO programs because it recognized that low-income, first-generation students often face significant financial and societal obstacles to accessing and achieving success in higher education. I have long supported the TRIO programs and worked to ensure they reach the most needed students.