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Dear First Generation Student…

Niche - First-Generation Collect Students

Dear First-Generation College Student. Hear it straight from a first-gen and international student that, yes, you can do this. You belong.

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New Report from Mainstay Recommends Ways to Improve the College Experience for First-Generation Students

Student Research Foundation

“When I arrived on campus as a first-year college student, the differences between me and my peers were clear. Kirk Daulerio, Co-Founder, Mainstay, writing in Bridging the Gap: How can emerging technology chart pathways to completion for first-generation students?, points higher than non-first-generation students.

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Supporting the Whole Student Through Holistic Advising: Reflections on ED’s Raise The Bar Summit

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

As a first-generation student, U.S. Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students. To elevate strategies that ease the strain of those challenges to support student success and completion, the U.S.

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Report: Graduate Enrollment is on the Decline

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Though men were overall more likely than women to enroll full-time in Fall 2022, of the 508,646 graduate students who enrolled for the first time, 57.8% The number of students enrolling part-time decreased by 6.9% Latinx students saw a 5.7% decline and American Indian/Alaska Native students saw one of 1.6%. "We

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First-Time Graduate Enrollment Rises, But Declines Domestically

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%. Although the data shows higher first-time enrollment rates as a whole, for strictly U.S. for white students, 4.5%

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The project is already giving voice to the Greenleaf family, enslaved on Eversfield plantation, which is now home to the Xfinity Center, a hub for student activity and UMD’s basketball arena. Students know that there’s no way an institution this old has no ties to slavery,” said Hughes-Watkins. “I Hughes-Watkins agreed.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Internationalization means far more than study abroad programs and foreign exchange students. This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Meanwhile, as campuses emptied, international students had to remain. Some of them wanted to stay.”