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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.” Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 2, 2024
We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Proportionately, the percentage of Black faculty fell from 4% to 3%.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 10, 2024
Serving that ideal, and serving Earlham’s students and faculty, is why I am so excited to become part of the community.” He advocates for first-generation, low-income students, participating in the establishment of the Penn First Plus Office and launching a student advisory board in 2018 to provide a voice for FGLI students in the college.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 7, 2023
For his leadership, LeBlanc – a first-generation college graduate – was named one of Forbes Magazine’s 15 “Classroom Revolutionaries” and one of the “most influential people in higher education,” in addition to winning the TIAA Institute Hesburgh Award for Leadership Excellence in Higher Education in 2018.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 31, 2024
“If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Disaggregated data showed that the average admit rate between 2018 and 2022 was extremely low for groups such as Hmong and Samoan where only 4.43% and 7.11%, respectively, of those ethnicities that applied were admitted.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%.
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