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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There are financial support programs, including emergency grants, technology loaner programs and device voucher support, which provide students with necessary in-time financial support. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. The grant is a California Student Aid Commission program.”

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

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López — the daughter of immigrants — says the land-grant university was a promising choice, given its scholars and proximity to the U.S.-Mexico But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Mexico border and her scholarly work on immigration. “As

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Examples of Excelencia

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Assistant professor and program coordinator Eleisha Moreno, who has worked with EAP since 2016, says this recognition from Excelencia in Education is validating. In 2016, EAP reduced the number of courses in its course sequence, increased tutoring services and added embedded tutoring. GPA and a persistence rate of 94.4%.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

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million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. A 1998 proposition eliminated most bilingual programs in California schools, and although it was reversed in 2016, there is still a shortage of teachers who speak multiple languages. Nearly one-third of Cal State Fullerton’s students are first-gen.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. We place people anywhere from UBS (financial services) to someone who decided to take a risk and start a business through our Center for Entrepreneurship where they were mentored,” he says.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. Since 2016, Latino graduation rates have increased by 16%, while the rate for all students increased 5%. “We As of Fall 2022, Latino students comprise 50.64% of all full-time undergraduates and 49.68% of all part-time undergraduates.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

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Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. And that got us the grant. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.”