The University Innovation Alliance

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Lack of adequate career preparation can be especially harmful to students from low-income backgrounds seeking to expand their career options and increase their lifelong earning potential through college education. These key student needs catalyzed innovative career readiness solutions that were pilot tested on each campus.

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NACAC's Admitted

OCTOBER 10, 2023

By Don Heller, Gigi Jones, and Abby Miller The recent dismantling of affirmative action and the COVID pandemic highlighted the barriers preventing underserved, underrepresented students – students of color and those who are low-income and first-generation – from enrolling in college. Source: U.S.

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COE

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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Scholarship America

JUNE 1, 2023

But, as higher education settles into its post-pandemic reality, what can those students expect to face—and how can private-sector scholarships help as they work toward their associate’s, bachelor’s and graduate degrees? That’s down by nearly 15% since 2020, according to the clearinghouse. Costs will keep rising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices.

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COE

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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COE

MAY 23, 2023

When Yang was appointed in 2020 to lead the California Commission staff, its primary mission was to address the issue of Asian hate, which intensified during the COVID-19 pandemic. I’m a true believer that we can attain equity so that everyone can thrive.” Faces of TRIO Collette Yellow Robe: From academic probation to Ph.D

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Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

The average age of a community college student is 27, and 35% of students are between the ages of 22 and 39. And, over 70% of Black and Native American community college students and two-thirds of Latinx students are low-income students. citizens, and 5% are veterans.

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Close the Gap Foundation

MARCH 15, 2022

Sunnyvale, CALIFORNIA — Today, Close the Gap Foundation announces its first donation from Airbnb, adding to the foundation's family of corporate sponsors committed to help close the digital divide for first-generation, low-income ( FGLI ) students in the United States.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Newsletter The UIA's monthly newsletter provides actionable strategies, resources, and tips for professionals in the field to help more low-income, first-generation, and students of color graduate from college. We hope you'll let us know what you think of these resources and how we can improve them.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Newsletter The UIA's monthly newsletter provides actionable strategies, resources, and tips for professionals in the field to help more low-income, first-generation, and students of color graduate from college. We hope you'll let us know what you think of these resources and how we can improve them.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 11, 2022

Those equity gaps often stem from an outdated profile of the typical college student: a full-time, on-campus resident with an understanding of available resources and the bandwidth to seek those resources on their own. Sometimes it’s really simple," says Dr. Sharing the Model. but across the globe.

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EAB

MAY 23, 2023

We released a report pretty early in the pandemic, and it was based on a survey that we ran in fall of 2020 to our entering student population. DA: And one of the questions that we asked them in fall of 2020, very early in the semester, was does your college have support services to help you with stresses related to the pandemic?

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College Planners of America

APRIL 28, 2023

Three years ago, Congress enacted long-overdue reforms in the passage of the FAFSA Simplification Act of 2020, which substantially improves Federal student aid process. The delay of the 2023 FAFSA launch from October 1 to December worries advocates of greater access to college for low-income students.

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