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Princeton African American Studies Chair Dr. Eddie Glaude to Step Down

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“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 In 2014, Diverse named Glaude an Emerging Scholar.

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

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In researching and publishing this report, UMD has joined over 100 institutions across six different countries, from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to Ivy League institutions as an established chapter of Universities Studying Slavery (USS), founded in 2014 at the University of Virginia (UVA). They’re not those schools anymore.

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Conway-Turner: From First-Gen Student to 43-Year Career Retirement

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As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects. It generated excitement and investment in current programs, our students and scholarships,” she said. “We Dr. Katherine Conway-Turner, center, takes part in the 2014 Inaugural Bengals Dare to Care Day.

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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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. All Latino students from the Fall 2014 cohort graduated with a B.A. Natacha DePaola, professor of Biomedical Engineering at Illinois Tech.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

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She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. The Murphy Deming College of Health Sciences opened in 2014, adding 30 new degrees or programs as well as Mary Baldwin’s first doctoral degrees.

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Gabrielle A. Davis: From Upward Bound Star to attorney

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As a result of her community involvement, she was named the 2014 Columbia County Young Person of the Year, the highest county youth accolade, and graduated as 2014 Upward Bound valedictorian. Click to view the page: How TRIO Turned a Teen Dad into a First-Generation College Graduate. by Maura Casey.