Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2025

Many are first-generation college students, working adults, transfer students, or military-affiliated learners seeking to advance their careers in STEM fields.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Every Learner Everywhere Every Learner Everywhere is a network of organizations with expertise in evaluating, implementing, scaling, and measuring the efficacy of education technologies, curriculum and course design strategies, teaching practices, and support services in blended and online learning environments.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

Disproportionately, these were students from first-generation and low-income backgrounds. Last year, we wanted to know our students' perceptions about online and remote learning at VCU. We found that our first-year, first-generation students, Pell-eligible students had less favorable experiences with online learning.

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Castleton Trio

MAY 8, 2020

I’m first-generation, so no one in my family knew where to start,” she explains. Since the COVID-19 pandemic forced Castleton to shift to online learning, Kontessa, an essential worker, has been working between twenty and thirty hours a week at the home, while completing her spring coursework.

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Close the Gap Foundation

MARCH 15, 2022

Sunnyvale, CALIFORNIA — Today, Close the Gap Foundation announces its first donation from Airbnb, adding to the foundation's family of corporate sponsors committed to help close the digital divide for first-generation, low-income ( FGLI ) students in the United States.

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