Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

In the 2021-22 application cycle, Common App reached 350,000 below-median income students. One of these pilots was Common App’s Direct Admissions Program, which proactively admitted qualifying first-generation and middle-to-low-income students into the program’s network of schools on a conditional basis. labor force.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2024

Latino college students are more likely to be first-generation students and less likely to leave college having earned their degrees, according to a new report from Excelencia in Education. had received an associate degree or higher in 2021-22, only 27% of Latinos had done the same.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Graduate school first-time enrollment has gone up between Fall 2020 and Fall 2021, according to a new report. Dr. Enyu Zhou The Graduate Enrollment and Degrees (GE&D) report – released by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) – showed that, between Fall 2020 to Fall 2021, first-time enrollment rose by 8.9%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Overall first-time graduate enrollment fell almost 5% from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022, along with decreases in first-time enrollment among underrepresented minorities (URM), according to a new report from the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). from Fall 2021 to Fall 2022. and those enrolling full-time fell 3.7% increase). "In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

According to the Department of Education, about six million students received Pell Grant funding in the 2020 – 2021 academic year. The total student loan debt reached $1.75 trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. Federal Reserve. “On

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

“I kind of defied them a little bit and said, ‘I want to help with peoples’ mental health and talk a little bit about how maybe bullying or trauma or domestic abuse can also impact their actual health, in addition to their physical health,’” says Mendoza, a first-generation Filipino immigrant who came to the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Tiffane Cochran However, the percentage of first-year law students who were people of color — 35% — barely changed between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years. Additionally, in the 2022-23 school year, Black and Hispanic students made up a significantly higher proportion of first-year law school attrition than they did the prior year.

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UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A message from the First-Generation Student Working Group Co-Chairs, Christabelle Dragoo and Angela Rovak. Dear First-Generation Students, Faculty, and Staff –. Welcome to the start of Fall 2021! We invite you to join us for the 2021 First Generation Celebration on Monday, November 8, 2021 from 11:00am to 1:00pm.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Department of Education Hispanic serving institution (HSI) designation in 2016; received the Seal of Excelencia certification in 2021; created the Mays Center for Experiential Learning and Community Engagement; developed the Engineering Technology/Cyber Security Research Center; and established the Institute for Autism and Related Disorders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 26, 2024

Jacqueline Pfeffer Merrill is the director of the Campus Free Expression Project at the Bipartisan Policy Center, which published Campus Free Expression: A New Roadmap in November 2021.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The percentage of freshmen who are Black, Latinx, or Native nearly doubled between 2013 and 2021, and the share of first-generation students climbed nine points to 21 percent.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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APRIL 11, 2023

Research Reveals Ways to Improve Mental Health Support for First-Generation Students April 11, 2023 — by Holly Hexter Colleges can do more to help first-generation students address mental health challenges as they transition to campus life, an Ohio State University researcher says. Sergeev emigrated to the U.S.

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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. Anti-Asian reported incidents jumped from 279 in 2020 to 746 in 2021, according to FBI statistics. California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

This year, Hall published an article with the Journal of First-Generation Student Success about the lived experiences of Black undocumented students, highlighting the ways higher education has excluded them from immigration discourse and support. Numerically, Black undocumented students are in the minority, said Hall.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Data gathered by Excelencia in Education, a nonprofit organization working to improve and accelerate Latinx student success in postsecondary education, showed that in 2021, there were 401 emerging HSI institutions across 43 states. The 2021 Latinx population in the U.S. totaled 62.5 million, just under 20% of the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

“Because we believe that teams with experience on the front lines of challenges will know best how to put the money to good use, we encouraged them to spend it however they choose,” Scott wrote in a June 2021 blog post listing some of the gifts. Many reported that this trust significantly increased the impact of the gift.

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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. The percentage of institutions self-reporting a “high” level of internationalization dropped 15 points, to only 11%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Jennifer Delaney, an associate professor of higher education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, was based on data from a direct admissions pilot program that has been run by the Common Application since 2021. Non-first-generation students were 2.5 points for potential first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2024

population is Latinx, and, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Latinx workers made up 66% of the workforce in 2021. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

But as much as I am a higher ed scholar, I’m a Jotería scholar-activist because my academic upbringing was really informed by my lived experiences as a first-generation academic, Joto, and Latinx in higher ed.” “I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

I became interested in the topic because of my own experiences, primarily being a first-generation college student, being a student who received a maximum Pell Grant, and identifying as a gay Black student. Means was also a 2021 Richard P. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr.,

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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. Anti-Asian reported incidents jumped from 279 in 2020 to 746 in 2021, according to FBI statistics. California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

But as much as I am a higher ed scholar, I’m a Jotería scholar-activist because my academic upbringing was really informed by my lived experiences as a first-generation academic, Joto, and Latinx in higher ed.” “I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 2, 2024

Bendapudi, who told the helm of Penn State in 2022 after serving as president of the University of Louisville from 2018 to 2021, declined to comment for this article. “We want to retain the faculty, but we also want them to be competitive,” said Whitehurst. 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

JULY 11, 2023

It was 2021, and Galan was working in a summer bridge program, supporting teenagers who were applying to college. He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. The course of Carlos Galan’s academic career was changed by a single question from a high school student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

It was 2021, and Galan was working in a summer bridge program, supporting teenagers who were applying to college. He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As a first-generation college student, Canton didn’t know about doctorates or writing a dissertation, but a professor provided guidance. As of 2021, 20 universities offer doctoral programs in African American studies. I started hanging out in the department, going to conferences in Washington, D.C.,

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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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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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COE

JULY 25, 2023

Growing up around family members who worked in TRIO, a federal program that provides student support resources to first-generation and low-income students and students with disabilities, he modeled the program after Upward Bound. ” appeared first on Council for Opportunity in Education.

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APRIL 7, 2023

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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AUGUST 26, 2024

For first-generation and low-income students, these programs can be life-changing, offering experiences that might otherwise be out of reach. The 2024 Keith Sherin Global Leaders Study Abroad Program exemplified the power of study abroad for first-generation and low-income students. this summer.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

When people ask me about my work, they often wonder if my motivation stems from being a low-income, first-generation college student myself. However, I am ready to serve and continue the work necessary to ensure success for our first-generation, low-income students in getting to and through college.

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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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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Mason Award stands as the pinnacle of recognition bestowed by the Council for Opportunity in Education, celebrating extraordinary individuals who have made indelible contributions to the realm of college opportunity programs and the relentless pursuit of educational equity for low-income, first-generation students, and those with disabilities.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For example, there is limited transparency on wealth outcomes for various student populations, including first-generation college students, such as myself, and little clarity on the repayment statuses and loan payment amount for students. 2021) One year later: COVID-19s impact on current and future college students.

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