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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 3, 2025
By focusing on employer needs, we have launched eight bachelors degrees in crucial areas including nursing, education, information technology, and public safety administration. Today, 61 percent of students entering our baccalaureate programs are first-generation and 41 percent are new to the community college system.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 23, 2024
The interviews with the first-generation college-going Mexican Americans were conducted in a specific manner so as to best gather testimonios , a manner grounded in Chicana feminist theories and indigenous theories, Trejo said. SJH’s focus on training students to be proficient in mathematics was another point in its favor.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 13, 2024
There are issues now that we face that rely on a certain level of science and scientific knowledge in order to be an informed citizen. Disaggregated research on how civic engagement pedagogies impact students of color, rural, low-income, and first-generation students is also sparse. That’s an area for us to go deeper.”
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.”
COE
APRIL 7, 2023
Within the context of TRIO programs, this research will focus on identifying institutional assets and barriers affecting first-generation and low-income learners’ career growth and developing an evidence-based theoretical model toward increasing awareness about institutional capacity.
College Planners of America
DECEMBER 27, 2023
Among first-generation college students and those in underrepresented groups, students earning a CLEP score of 50 or higher on exams have significantly higher retention and graduation rates than other students. The video also contains information about how CLEP scores are calculated.
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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