Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Kim Schatzel Schatzel – currently president of Towson University (TU) – previously served as provost of Eastern Michigan University and dean of the College of Business at the University of Michigan-Dearborn, A first-generation college student herself, she has been praised for making diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) a priority.

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from enrollments four years ago [in spring of 2020,]” said Shapiro. Public four-year institutions and private, nonprofit four-year institutions are both still down about 1% from where they were spring 2020.” Doug Shapiro, vice president of research and executive director of the Research Center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. Hawley Prize from the Organization of American Historians also in 2019; and a fellowship with the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2020. Neither did college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 8, 2023

Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017. Page has worked extensively with high-risk students, first-generation students, and learning communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In 2020, all of the higher education sector was affected. We know that the pandemic and its aftermath had led to inflation and new financial pressures on all Americans, but in particular first-generation students,” Kent said. “We The number of students enrolling part-time decreased by 6.9% and those enrolling full-time fell 3.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Charles Alexander Dr. Charles J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States. This shift in focus requires a commitment to first generation college students, equity, and inclusion. This decline should be alarming and open our eyes to a deeper issue within our educational system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It was most pronounced from 2016 to 2020, where we dropped about 25% of our enrollment. When he became president of IRSC in late 2020, Moore brought business acumen to his new role. The program reached first-time college goers as well, and 56% of the 2022 promise cohort identify as first-generation.

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APRIL 9, 2023

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 said his experience as a first-generation student has “always helped me be a better professor, better administrator, and a better chancellor today.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects. It generated excitement and investment in current programs, our students and scholarships,” she said. “We Unfortunately, no programming prepared presidents for a global pandemic.

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MAY 2, 2024

The resulting report, More Rivers to Cross Part 1 , released in January 2020, contained 96 pages of quantitative analysis on the paucity of Black professors and their stagnating numbers. My colleagues and I picked up the mantel about five to six years ago.” I have not met very many Black faculty with a sense of belonging at Penn State.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

In San Luiz, Arizona, along the border of the state and Sonora, Mexico, there is Gadsden Elementary School District #32, where more than 99% of its more than 5,000 students identified as Hispanic in 2020. Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The report found that although 47% of institutions saw accelerating internationalization between 2017 and the start of the pandemic, only 21% described acceleration between 2020 and 2021. For the fall of 2020, Rutgers had admitted 400 Chinese students who were not able to come to the U.S. They couldn’t go home,” said Garfunkel.

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Within the context of TRIO programs, this research will focus on identifying institutional assets and barriers affecting first-generation and low-income learners’ career growth and developing an evidence-based theoretical model toward increasing awareness about institutional capacity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“When I first met with my advisor, I was excited to dive into my program,” says Maria, a first-generation community college student. But when I realized there was no pre-college math course to take, I panicked. I had always struggled with math. I thought, ‘How am I going to pass this class?’” Maria’s experience is not uncommon.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Tying eligibility to participation in its TRIO College Success Program, the scholarship program gives each recipient – a first-generation student – $3,000 a year, renewable for up to two years. So, many of our students come to us – they’re first-time students, first-generation, working full-time, parenting.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

vice president for diversity, equity, and inclusion at Molloy University and a 2020 Emerging Scholar, in his letter nominating Means this year. “My Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I

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MARCH 6, 2024

Between 2010 and 2020, Latinx people accounted for over 50% of the U.S. She said that many first-generation, Latinx students do not have the tacit knowledge of the professional ecosystem and the steps and connections it might take to become employed. population growth. Currently, one fifth of the U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2024

Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. As of 2020, Johns Hopkins expanded this to a year-long program. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. And that is because many of our students are first-generation and low-income.” The Hartford campus itself holds a large percentage of first-generation students, according to Rola. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

At the height of the pandemic in 2020, without ever visiting the campus, Dr. David A. In 2020, that plan became concrete, and the search was on to find a director who could do that. As a first-generation college student, Canton didn’t know about doctorates or writing a dissertation, but a professor provided guidance.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Those lectures became a fundamental first step into his career in higher education, and in 2008, he became special assistant to the director of the TRIO programs at GSU, a series of federally funded programs that assist low-income, first-generation, or otherwise minoritized students attend and graduate college.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional. For students that happen to be first-generation as well as Hispanic, they need assistance and coaching on the admissions process,” Bias said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Between June 2004 and June 2020, almost 12,000 institutions of higher education closed their doors. And because for-profits largely serve first generation students, particularly Latinx and Black students, if you connect the dots, this is why we are seeing such disproportionate negative impact on these large, minority populations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. The campus closed in March 2020, but in June 2020 the new doctoral cohorts in physical and occupational therapy were due to arrive. I also like breadth and depth,” Fox said.

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Scholarship America

JUNE 1, 2023

As Forbes reports , “Between 1980 and 2020, the average price of tuition, fees, and room and board for an undergraduate degree increased 169%,” thanks to a well-documented confluence of factors. I]n 2020, average education appropriations per full-time equivalent student were still 6% lower overall than in 2008, according to [the] report.”

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AUGUST 13, 2023

A graduate of the  University of South Carolina , she credits her understanding of the unique challenges confronting first-generation, low-income students to her participation in the Opportunity Scholars Program (OSP), a subset of TRIO Student Support Services , during college. 

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JULY 25, 2023

In D.C.,   the country’s 15th most segregated metropolitan area , the average span of residents across some neighborhoods  can vary by  decades.  “Ever since 2020, with George Floyd and the reignition of the Black Lives Matter movement, we have just always seen a negative image of Black men on T.V. and in media.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Between July 2020 and July 2021, 1.4 million more people joined the some college but no credential (SCNC) population, deepening existing inequities in educational outcomes and socio-economic mobility for first-generation students, adult students, students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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are the most likely to choose community college as their first step when pursuing a higher education. They’re also more likely to be first-generation, come from families in the bottom half of earners, and delay or cancel their college plans due to financial struggles or caregiving responsibilities. December 18, 2020.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Department of Education, the Upward Bound program works with students from six area high schools that are identified as potential first-generation college students. Since 2020, almost 60% of Village residents have been Latino and have completed their degree or certificate programs in an average of 3.4

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MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. And that is because many of our students are first-generation and low-income.” The Hartford campus itself holds a large percentage of first-generation students, according to Rola. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

Between 2016 and 2020, the UIA conducted a randomized control trial study of proactive, predictive analytics-enabled advising for first-generation and Pell-eligible students across 11 campuses. We've recently distilled some of our learning into three UIA playbooks that we invite you to download for free. Proactive Advising.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Between July 2020 and July 2021, 1.4 million more people joined the some college but no credential (SCNC) population, deepening existing inequities in educational outcomes and socio-economic mobility for first-generation students, adult students, students from low-income backgrounds and students of color.

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APRIL 6, 2023

professor emeritus of higher education at New York University, who first met de los Santos in the 1960s and remained close friends with him until de los Santos’ death in 2020. Richardson Jr., His advocacy was for a society that was free from discrimination based on any race or cultural characteristics. He never excluded anyone.

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Tameka is the founder and CEO of First Generation Revolutionaries. In 2020, Tameka started First Generation Revolutionaries , a company with a mission to support students professionally, personally, and spiritually through empowering keynotes, training sessions, and mentorship programs. November 14, 2022.

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