Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Comparisons are available across states, gender, race/ethnicity and age as well as by year dating back to 2007. Lehman College, which serves many lower income and first-generation students, has several initiatives that work to close such gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. MDC consists of eight campuses and multiple outreach centers in Miami-Dade County, Florida.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

Both are first-generation college students, grew up in migrant farming communities, have a background in mathematics, and served as president of MCCCD institutions (before Gonzales became chancellor of MCCCD). I can relate to some of those fears and unknowns as a first-generation student when you just don’t know what you don’t know.

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Community college First generation Placement Mathematics 278

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 33% of ASU’s enrollment is dual credit students (3,700 students taking both high school and college courses), 43% of whom are Latinos and first-generation college students. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

After AT&T and Southern Bell merged, HISPA leadership decided to keep the group intact and in 2007 voted to become the independent nonprofit organization it is today. There is also HISPA’s Latinos in College, a leadership development program for mostly first-year, first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

When Hall was an undergraduate at Bowie State University (2007–12), an HBCU in Maryland, it was a “resource desert” for LGBTQ students. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation. Rainbow cords are distributed that students are welcome to wear at the campus-wide graduation.

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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.

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