Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

Undergraduate enrollment is almost 16 million, only 1% below 2019 levels. A point noted in last falls data was that the number of 18-year-old freshman saw the biggest decline, particularly at public institutions that serve low-income students. increase, but they remain below 2019 levels. above 2019 levels.

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Low income student Community college Student affairs Curriculum 299

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2025

Alvero When my daughter transferred to Queens College in Spring 2019, I could not have been more excited. A 2023 report by the Community College Research Center found that only 16% of community college students earned a bachelors program within six years and just 10% of low-income students did.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2024

Marybeth Gasman, executive director of the Center for MSIs and her research team representing MSI-focused academics from across the country, have been working on the report since 2019. To receive federal Title V funding, set aside for HSIs, institutions must prove they will use the funds to support their Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Justin Ortagus, an associate professor of higher education administration and policy and the director of the Institute of Higher Education at the University of Florida, examined over 40,000 student transcripts from a diverse, high-enrollment community college from between 2009 and 2019.

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NACAC's Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

1] This preliminary analysis is part of a forthcoming study using the recently released 2019-2020 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:20). Data included in the analysis are for dependent students attending public and private not-for-profit four-year institutions. Source: U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

“We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. There is also a family resource center that supports undocumented students. That analysis attributed much of the effect to living on campus.

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Close the Gap Foundation

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

After beginning with a handful of students in 2019, the Fellowship annually tripled its cohort size in an attempt to meet student demand and in response to increasing generosity from donors and corporate sponsors like DoorDash. A responsibility that for Nina, a first-generation, low-income student herself, is personal.

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