Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2025

The study also revealed that affordability remains a critical factor, especially for first-generation and low-income students. For example, smaller schools gain more from incremental improvements in campus amenities and academic offerings compared to larger institutions.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did. This leads to wasted tuition dollars and makes it more challenging to earn a bachelors degree.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2024

Collectively, each team is working to get the word out to as many prospective students and families as possible. “I We know that low-income students often get detoured from the university track early on in life because they don’t think they can afford it, and we want to eliminate that concern.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2025

Since 1964, the TRIO federal program has helped low-income students, first-generation college students, students with disabilities, and veterans earn college degrees. is slipping in global rankings for postsecondary degree attainment. For America to stay competitive, we must remain committed to college access.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 9, 2025

Community colleges serve the largest proportion of first-generation students, low-income students, students of color, and non-traditional students— populations critical to America’s economic future. Yet they often struggle with retention and graduation metrics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams became the director of the Career Advancement Center, where he would spend the next five years inviting first generation, low-income students, women, LGBTQ+, and other under-represented undergraduates into pursuing their graduate degrees.

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MARCH 6, 2025

a nonprofit based in Atlanta, GA, which served as a strategic partner to the Atlanta Public School District as well as hundreds of colleges and universities across the nation to increase the number of low-income, first generation, Atlanta students of color graduating from high school and college.

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College Planners of America

JUNE 24, 2025

Pell Grants Title III raises the Pell Grant ceiling for academic years 2026-27 and beyond, improving the financial outlook for low-income students. Critics argue that this change will disproportionately harm low-income students, forcing some to take out more loans or drop out of part-time college enrollment.

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The maximum Pell Grant award has increased, and more students will qualify for this need-based aid. This is especially beneficial for low-income students who rely heavily on Pell Grants to fund their education. Increased Pell Grant Eligibility The FAFSA changes also come with an expansion of Pell Grant eligibility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2025

Congress located these programs at the Department for a reason: to ensure they are guided by the overarching values and expertise of an agency dedicated to improvingeducation for all students, not the bottom line of a business agency. This isnt just a policy debateits about protecting opportunity for the very students who need it most.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

Its absence, she added, would mean that education would no longer be a priority at the federal level, which could have a chilling effect and dangerous consequences including the loss of curriculum standards, decreased support for HBCUs, loss of federal oversight in special education and disruption of Pell Grants and federal student loans. "It

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MARCH 6, 2025

We should be talking about how do we help more students graduate from college and go onto successful careers in the jobs that we need to fill in this 21st century economy. Dismantling the Title I program, for example, would lead to the elimination of billions of dollars from schools that serve low-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2025

The study indicates that diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts remain important to students, with 53% saying a school's stated commitment to DEI contributes to a safe campus—a view particularly strong among low-income students.

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MAY 1, 2025

The legislation would also eliminate subsidized loans, which currently spare undergraduate students from accruing interest while in school. The bill includes a three-year exemption for students enrolled as of June 30, 2026, but future students would face higher costs.

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COE

JULY 9, 2025

The rain was incidental—it kind of added a little drama to it — but what really mattered was that a Member of Congress had chosen to champion first-generation, low-income students, and students with disabilities at a time when TRIO’s very existence was in question.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

In the first year, 68 school districts and individual charter schools were invited to participate with a focus on low-income students. The preliminary data indicates the most significant decline is at four-year institutions that serve low-income students. Enrollment will begin in fall 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

The largest share of ED employees work in the federal student aid office, making any disruption potentially catastrophic for institutions that rely on revenue from student charges provided by federal student loans and Pell Grants.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2025

The legislation includes significant cuts to Medicaid and other safety net programs that many students and families depend on. These reductions are expected to particularly impact low-income students and strain state higher education budgets.

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The College Pod

JUNE 8, 2024

Families with this SAI qualify for the full Pell Grant, a federal grant designed to help low-income students. Now, let’s talk about the SAI numbers: Lowest Possible SAI (-1500) : An SAI of -1500 indicates significant financial need. Additionally, other need-based aid may be available.

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COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Targeting TRIO for complete elimination in its most recent budget proposal to Congress, the Trump Administration wrongly claimed that “access to college is no longer the barrier it once was for low-income students.”

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COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. Hamm Supporters of TRIO assembled on Capitol Hill in March during COE’s annual Legislative Conference.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

During his two decades of leadership, Casteen oversaw significant increases in the enrollment of women, international students, and students from underrepresented minority groups.

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COE

JULY 15, 2025

COE’s award will accelerate the adoption of evidence-based SSS practices, ensuring that colleges nationwide thoughtfully invest in the success of first-generation and low-income students.” The selection process unfolds in two stages.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 17, 2025

This is in addition to the disastrous decision to dismantle the Department of Education, an agency created to provide access for students no matter where theyre from, including low-income students, those with learning disabilities, and students of color. For our youngest military leaders, the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. With President Biden’s signature on Dec. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

In concert with Rhode College’s commitment to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging as well as affordability, the Office of Admission strives to identify, recruit, and enroll domestic students who are underrepresented in higher education, including first-generation college students, low-income students, and students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. The funding will allow for the hiring of four new student support advocates, who will offer dedicated attention and guidance to these students as they pursue their degrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

One of these pilots was Common App’s Direct Admissions Program, which proactively admitted qualifying first-generation and middle-to-low-income students into the program’s network of schools on a conditional basis. Jenny Rickard said in the report's introduction.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When Dr. Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 7, 2023

High-performing Black, Latino, and students from low-income backgrounds are not getting equal access to advanced math courses that more affluent or white students do, according to a new report from the Education Trust and Just Equations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

As a student, as a scholar, as a Black student, as an FLI [first-generation, low-income] student, it was everything that I needed for it to be,” said Kiara Gilbert, who had Glaude as her junior paper and senior thesis adviser. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

It includes outreach and resources to counselors and families with students receiving direct admissions offers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

The graduation rate for URM at four-year public institutions (4YP) increased 9 percentage points from 2016-17 to 2022-23, and the graduation rate for low-income students increased 10 percentage points in that time period. Funding for low-income students in Kentucky’s performance funding model has increased.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

And these students had to pay tuition and use federal and state financial aid for such courses. The traditional system also disproportionately affected underserved communities, given that most of the students assigned to remedial courses were low-income students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

A school might be offering access to a great many low-income students, but not graduating many of them. Establishing an environment that’s friendly to low-income students of various stripes will lead them to attend, at which point programs to help them can be established. Or vice-versa.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Department of Education (ED) – will help the school fund several initiatives in support of its diverse student body, particularly its large Hispanic and low-income student population. Texas A&M University-San Antonio The money – in the form of a “Caminos Hacia el Éxito” (Pathways to Success) grant from the U.S.

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