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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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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The Benefits of the Writing Center

The LTC Blog

This past summer Carol Trosset completed a study tracking the class that entered Carleton in Fall 2015 and their use of the Writing Center , their performance in writing-rich courses, and their performance on the sophomore writing portfolio. The results were striking.