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Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% As a first-generation college graduate and the first-ever female, Hispanic president of St.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

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The state awarded $18 million each to six regional collaboratives consisting of at least one K-12 school district, University of California campus, California State University campus, and community college district. It’s a burgeoning industry, expected to grow 7% between 2020 and 2030.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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Moreover, school counselors are in a position to impact the academic achievement of students of color, as well as contribute to closing opportunity gaps through collaboration with other school personnel and using data-driven approaches. collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, work ethic), technical skills (e.g., Dr. Donna Y.

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Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves: Living Life on Purpose

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One of the goals I’m trying to achieve is to portray our lives outside of the classroom to humanize our experience and to show that many of our contributions actually happen outside of the classroom in the research that we do, in the work that we publish and the work that we do with students,” she says. “I

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

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In January 2020, he began serving as interim chancellor of MCCCD and was initially told that he would likely be in that role for six months until a permanent chancellor was named. He works hard to ensure that he is living values of integrity, inclusiveness, collaboration in his work every day,” Sullivan continued.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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The Bronx is home to over one million people, 56% of whom are Latinx, according to 2020 U.S. It’s incredible the way [The Mount] truly lives the mission of our authentic inclusivity and commitment to human dignity, our obligations to each other, and our common humanity,” says Burns. Census data.

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Native Son Propels Opportunities for Kentucky Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Amanda Ellis joined CPE in 2020 as vice president of K-12 policies and programs. She is currently engaged in working collaboratively with K-12, higher education, and business partners around dual credits. “We Data, he says, is crucial to informing his and the CPE’s position. Higher education is about deep learning,” Thompson says.