Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 26, 2024
The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States. This shift in focus requires a commitment to first generation college students, equity, and inclusion. This decline should be alarming and open our eyes to a deeper issue within our educational system.
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.
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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?
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.
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.
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. Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A commitment to the work It’s that kind of commitment to equity issues that has inspired Jean, who has been at the university since 2011. In 2020, Jean moved to the office of the provost, where his work has focused primarily on limited income and first-generation students.
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