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What to HBCUs Is the Fourth of July?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Much like them, he was powered by the conviction that literacy—secured through self-determination—was a transformative tool in the head, hands, and heart of Black people. But if he had been, I like to believe he would have called a historically Black college or university his intellectual home. Dr. Crystal A.

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Postsecondary Enrollment Continues to Grow, Most Notably at Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There was a marked increase among first-generation students and students of color in applications, admissions and enrollment. Fagan noted that every student that comes to Temple has the academic ability to succeed, but especially post-pandemic they may be behind in college literacy (how to navigate higher education).

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

First generation college students navigate multifaceted and intersectional identities while contending with the barriers related to those identities and social circumstances. American social systems and social institutions are often operating in contradiction to articulated social goals and outcomes.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. 58% of students are first-generation college, 68% identified as low-income, 63% attend college part-time and 73% work while attending college.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025

Active Minds

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. Her project combines both empirical and qualitative data, drawing from her own study design and interviews with mental health experts.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025 Copy

Active Minds

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. Her project combines both empirical and qualitative data, drawing from her own study design and interviews with mental health experts.

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Negotiating the Future: How HBCUs and MSIs Can Leverage Strategic Enrollment Management for Institutional Resilience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Declining birth rates, changingstudent expectations, shifting public sentiment, and persistent underfunding place extraordinary pressure on institutions that have long served as lifelines for students of color and first-generation learners. Yet amid these challenges lies an opportunity. Equally important is the political environment.