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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Rhodes College Joins Initiative to Expand Access for Highly Talented Low-Income Students

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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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Workgroup Offers 13 Recommendations to Advance CSU Student Success

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Student success experts have prescribed potential solutions to declining Black student enrollment and retention numbers in California’s public universities in a recent report published by The California State University (CSU) Office of the Chancellor. strategies to cultivate a systemwide infrastructure and inclusive campus climates.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

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As indicated by several key metrics, over the past decade underrepresented minority (URM) students have made considerable progress in retention, graduation, and persistence rates. percentage point increase in dual credit participation among low-income students from the 2016 senior class to the 2021 senior class.

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Stancia Jenkins

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Title: Assistant Vice President for Diversity, Access and Inclusion; Associate to the President, University of Nebraska Jenkins has served as the University of Nebraska’s associate to the president and assistant vice president for diversity, access and inclusion since August of 2016.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Forging Strategic Partnerships

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In 2016, he was tapped to lead the school’s law center, which was founded at the historically Black university (an HBCU) in 1947. With the attacks on diversity, equity, and inclusion within higher education, HBCUs are “even more relevant and important today,” he says.