Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 29, 2024

ATI, formed in 2016, comprises regional and flagship public institutions and leading private colleges and universities. Rhodes College joins the collective of 137 public and private colleges and universities nationwide who work collaboratively to expand access and opportunity for highly talented low- and moderate-income students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. That sends a powerful message to students and also the faculty that they’re valued, and it has led to retention and growth.” Latino first-year retention has increased from 59% to 71% after implementation of the dual credit program. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. The program reached first-time college goers as well, and 56% of the 2022 promise cohort identify as first-generation. Eventually, Towner said he discovered that CCC did not have an enrollment problem as much as a retention problem.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 20, 2023

Disproportionately, these were students from first-generation and low-income backgrounds. We launched this tool in May 2016 for our incoming students, thinking maybe we'd have 6000, 8000 exchanges with the students before the beginning of fall classes. In four months, we had over 180,000 exchanges.

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EAB

MAY 30, 2023

11 Engage Families: During the pandemic, students relied more on their families when making decisions about college, but first-generation students were 23 percent less likely than successive-generation students to name their families as a top resource. This will help to build trust and eliminate confusion.

Community college 52

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. & Alexander, L.D. Chapter 12: Brown, D.

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