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$2.1M Grant Aims to Diversify Geosciences

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eastern Carolina is predominantly white, drawing rural and first-generation students, while Puerto Rico’s student enrollment comprises mostly Latino students. In 2019, about 33% of environmental scientists and geoscientists were women, according to the American Geoscience Institute. National Science Foundation has awarded a $2.14

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 33% of ASU’s enrollment is dual credit students (3,700 students taking both high school and college courses), 43% of whom are Latinos and first-generation college students. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Latinx participation in the Metro College Success Program learning community increased by 25% between 2019 and 2024. Currently, 60.1%

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs. Emerald Publishing Limited. Fletcher Jr.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Announces 2023 National TRIO Achiever Award Recipients

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His pioneering work expanding broadband access and promoting digital literacy has allowed countless low-income students to pursue their educational aspirations. House of Representatives clerk from 2019 until 2023 and is joining Radio Free America to help set up a Voice of Africa bureau within that organization. Johnson served as U.S.