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5 Hip-Hop Quotes to Inspire College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2017, hip-hop became the most streamed genre in the United States of America. 3. Big Sean (“Sacrifices”, 2017) “The human race is all about pacing. First generation college students are tasked with the tumultuous role of paving their own road. Dr. Jeremy C. There is no luck when it comes to academic success.

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

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Thomas in Minnesota, where almost all the students are minoritized and nearly three-quarters are first-generation, has managed to buck this trend. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. Hall, a first-generation African American student at DFC. “It Staff were everywhere.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. for students who entered in 2017. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

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educational research and policy analysis (higher education), North Carolina State University Career mentors: Dr. Audrey “AJ” Jaeger, North Carolina State University; Dr. Jori Hall, University of Georgia; Dr. Tony Cawthon, Clemson University; Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

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Penn’s Sniegowski Named Earlham President

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Paul Sniegowski Since his appointment as dean in 2017, Sniegowski has been responsible for the direction of Penn’s liberal arts undergraduate curricula, programs and students in academic departments and interdisciplinary programs across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

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She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. Fox acknowledges going coed, which happened in 2017, was not an easy process. I would also like to do leadership and mentoring. … I also like breadth and depth,” Fox said.

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2022: Reemerging, Growing, and Evolving

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