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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds.

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Guiding Community Colleges Toward Mission Fulfillment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Utilizing a data-driven approach, ATD provides coaching that facilitates institutional transformation so that these colleges can have maximum impact on the lives of their students and on the communities within which they are located. In 2017, Stout was named the American Association for Women in Community Colleges Woman of the Year.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It holds a 93% master’s degree completion rate for the program’s Latinx students since 1986. For comparison, the overall graduate student population’s degree completion rate is 81%. And in the past decade – up to fall 2022 – 97% of Latinx fellows (32 participants) earned their master’s degrees.

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Breaking Barriers in Finance: The Impact of TRIO on Student Support Services Alumna Ashley Thomas

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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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Closing the network gap takes a community of partners

Close the Gap Foundation

” — Glen Smith, high school teacher in Columbia, Maryland As an essential part of Close the Gap Foundation’s programming serving first-generation, low-income (FGLI) students, the team is building a community of partners to bring the advantages of a diverse and influential network to those least likely to have access.

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(Re)introducing the Social Impact Fellowship

Close the Gap Foundation

A responsibility that for Nina, a first-generation, low-income student herself, is personal. While students are encouraged to lean on the broader network of adults, it is their mentor who facilitates their project-based learning experience. To apply to be a 2022 Fellow click here.

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Empowering Dreams and Overcoming Barriers: The Unforgettable Journey of TRIO Students at the 2023 National Student Leadership Congress

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One hundred and thirty-nine high school TRIO students from across the country participated in the National Student Leadership Congress (NSLC) this year in Washington, D.C., She believes experiences like NSLC help educate students on every state’s unique challenges and education inequalities.