Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 26, 2024
That’s how Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser became president of Colorado Mountain College (CMC) in 2013. She connected the dots and realized that CMC was losing students by not recruiting more of its regional K-12 students and their families, many of whom are Latinx, first-generation, and immigrants.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
SEPTEMBER 1, 2023
The percentage of freshmen who are Black, Latinx, or Native nearly doubled between 2013 and 2021, and the share of first-generation students climbed nine points to 21 percent.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
AUGUST 21, 2024
As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 9, 2023
He became president of GateWay Community College in MCCCD in 2013. 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). There, Gonzales earned an Ed.D.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 27, 2023
University of La Verne President Dr. Devorah Lieberman is shown with graduating students in 2013. Lieberman is the 18th president of La Verne and the first woman to lead in the university’s history. Most of the students are middle- and low-income and first-generation. That’s now running and stronger than ever.
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.
The University Innovation Alliance
MAY 8, 2024
UIA institutions are deeply committed to producing more low-income graduates, first generation graduates, and graduates of color across the country, and their efforts are paying off.
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