Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2023

Glaude has been chair since AAS , originally a certificate program, became a department in 2015. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 31, 2024

Stout, who has led the organization since 2015. There are cohorts and special groups,” she says, adding that, for example, the visibility of tribal colleges as valued members of the network for the past seven years has helped to propel the organization’s focus on equity and student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

Yet a 2024 report by Community College Research Center, the Aspen Institute College Excellence Program, and National Student Clearinghouse Research Center found that only about a third of 2015 community college entrants transferred and fewer than half of those who transferred earned a degree in six years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 1, 2025

Since 2015, Stout has served as president and CEO of Achieving the Dream (ATD), a network of over 300 community colleges, with the goal of being accessible hubs of learning, credentialing and economic mobility that eliminate inequities in educational and workforce outcomes. Moono, president of SUNY Schenectady County Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In 2015, the California State University chancellor put forth a challenge to the state’s university system: Graduation Initiative (GI) 2025. California State University Monterey Bay (CSUMB) had excellent graduation rates, but they couldn’t figure out why.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. There is also a family resource center that supports undocumented students. UIC enrolls and graduates the largest number of Latino students in Illinois.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 Over the past five years, EPW has served 909 students, 68% of whom are Latino. Since 2015, 64 students, 93.75% of whom are Latino, have been placed in internships. “I

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