Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 27, 2025

Gates was one of a dozen scientists who received the honor in 2013 for the year 2011 in a ceremony that had been postponed due to the 2012 election. Turok says the institute is now the largest and strongest network of centres of excellence in mathematical sciences in Africa, with 3500 alumni at masters level.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. The precipitous, unrelenting decline in Black community college enrollment since 2011 is the canary in the mine for American higher education. But we need to look closer at the data. What do I mean by Black-serving?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 4, 2023

2. Wale (“Ambition”, 2011) “Move with aggression, use my mind as a weapon. First generation college students are tasked with the tumultuous role of paving their own road. One major key to success in college is thoroughly reviewing and critiquing your work before a professor can. Dr. Jeremy C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A first-generation Mexican-American and first-generation college student, Gonzalez says she has always been motivated to help her family move up the social mobility ladder. The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

When Dr. Devorah Lieberman became president of University of La Verne in 2011, a private institution of approximately 8,000 students about 35 miles east of Los Angeles, she was in many ways seeing life come full circle. Most of the students are middle- and low-income and first-generation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Creating MEGA What emerged from the taskforce planning was the Male Enrollment and Graduation Alliance (MEGA), an ambitious wrap-around initiative designed to strengthen the high school-to-college pipeline and to provide a platform for current male college students of color to engage with each other, faculty, and staff.

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