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Championing Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sophia Rahming As a result of her work, class withdrawals and the number of students failing and having to repeat courses — particularly in STEM-related courses — have dramatically declined since she took the helm of the program in 2019. There were only 45 LAs during the inaugural launch of the program in 2019 and today there are 330.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.” Equity, familia and servingness are woven into the college’s leadership, programs and services to foster success for all students. In that same time period, the retention of full-time Latinx students increased 3.9%.

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Former Congresswoman from Texas is Dead at 88

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She was born in Waco and experienced the transformation of a segregated South in her childhood into a South that would later honor her; Dallas’ once-segregated Union Station was renamed in her honor in 2019. Eddie Bernice Johnson Johnson earned a nursing certificate from St.