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. In 2022-23, over 350 students were awarded close to $772,000 in Graduate Initiative Grants. in 2022-23. In academic year 2021-22, 45.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

In the 2022-23 academic year, the College Fund supported more than 4,000 Native American scholars in 43 states to attend 267 colleges and universities. Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year. 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. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972. Coupled with the $400 increase in the 2022 fiscal year, this is the largest two-year increase ever in the history of the grant. trillion by the end of 2022, according to the U.S. By January 2022, Black male retention jumped to 79%. Federal Reserve. “On

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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. fall at Doctoral or Professional Universities (D/PU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

NJIT’s efforts grew Hispanic undergrad population from 20% to 25% in the fall of 2022, which enabled the university to reach the eligibility threshold for the HSI status that the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U.S. Department of Education recently confirmed in a letter. “It

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

JUNE 30, 2024

considered legacy status during the 2021-2022 academic year. In the 2021-2022 academic year, 2.1 Additional admissions guidance or financial support should be targeted to first-generation students and students from low-income backgrounds. How widespread are legacy admissions policies?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The company had announced its goal to move the SAT to digital in January 2022, aiming to increase ease of use. As a first-generation American and the child of immigrants who came to the U.S. Priscilla Rodriguez Starting 2023, all SAT exams outside of the U.S. will use the digital format, with the U.S.

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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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COE

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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

But fall 2022 saw those losses slow. At CCC, a Historically Black College and University, fall 2022 enrollment jumped 22.2%, the highest enrollment gains of any community college in the state. IRSC’s fall 2022 enrollment increased by 8.9%, with its incoming cohort breaking their ten-year average enrollment by more than 1,000 students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Almost 4,500 students from 17 colleges across 11 states responded to the fall 2022 DESSE pilot administration. CCCSE, with assistance from an advisory panel of experts, developed the Dual Enrollment Survey of Student Engagement (DESSE) to help college leaders learn from these students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Most of Compton's Black students are first-generation and from households where the adults are paid low wages. This is how Compton dedicated over $3 million in emergency aid specifically for the 2022-2023 fiscal year, with an additional $500,000 in emergency aid for dual enrollment students. What do I mean by Black-serving?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Iné Collins has been a school counselor at Ewing High School in New Jersey since August 2022. But experts said that these interruptions are already having a negative impact on the students who need financial aid the most: first generation students, students of color, and those from low-income backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They have created special programs for students who are under-served, at risk, first generation, Black males, women, migrants, and prisoners. Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go. 14% attempted suicide in the past year. •

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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. In October 2022, the founder of the Proud Boys, a white supremacist organization, was set to speak on campus, but that event was canceled. Many feel quite alienated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Dr. Justin Jernigan, dean of student success at Georgia Gwinnett College (GGC), said the plan to pursue HSI status, announced in 2022, was intentional. Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in Texas received HSI designation in 2022. Most recently, the university has developed its first-generation center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

The PSSG – it was first funded in 2022 via the Consolidated Appropriations Act – recognizes and awards funds to institutions that propose to use the grant for evidence-based reforms and practices in pursuit of bolstering student participation, retention, transfer, and completion rates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A first-generation Mexican-American and first-generation college student, Gonzalez says she has always been motivated to help her family move up the social mobility ladder. Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel Jean often recounts with sadness the story of Robert Daniel Cuadra, an 18-year-old honor student from Paterson, New Jersey, who was planning to embark on a promising college career at Montclair State University in the summer of 2022. Responding to a crisis The charge from Dr. Junius J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

In 2022, student leaders launched a campaign to challenge the long-standing stigma associated with attending community colleges. Many are first-generation college students, work while attending school part-time, and have parenting responsibilities.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

At Agnes Scott College, first-year students are given the opportunity to take their first step into becoming global citizens through its Global Journeys program. Many of our students are first-generation students. Over 60% of our students are students of color. Over 40% are Pell Grant-eligible.

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UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Title: First Generation Scholarships and General Scholarship Essay Tips. How to pay can be one of the most stressful aspects of navigating a college degree for many first-generation college students. The 2022-23 FAFSA is open now! Written by: Tara Parrillo; Director, TRIO Student Support Services.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

Fifty-two percent of Bloomfield’s students were first generation, and the majority of Bloomfield’s students came from Essex County in NJ, home to Newark. Census data shows the median household income for Newark in 2022 was $46,460, and just under 25% of Newark’s population lives in poverty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% In 2022, the university finally launched an official LGBTQ alumni affinity group, ARC. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation. of non-LGBTQ people.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID. Our board, staff, and network convened in person for the first time in three years. Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025.

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Close the Gap Foundation

JUNE 15, 2022

32 first-generation, low-income high school students from 15+ cities across California and Washington gathered with their mentors and program leaders to kick off their three-month program experience. The Fellowship runs from June to September 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. In 2022, The Mount received a Title V HSI grant to develop new resources to help students who struggle in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics programs, otherwise known as STEM. The Mount is focused on serving.”

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

In 2022, we reemerged from the challenges of COVID. Our board, staff, and network convened in person for the first time in three years. Data from fall 2022 show that: Founding UIA institutions have produced over 118,500 additional degrees above baseline projections and are on track to double their 68,000 degree goal by 2025.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

These are still things that the African American studies program is doing in 2022.” As a first-generation college student, Canton didn’t know about doctorates or writing a dissertation, but a professor provided guidance. Also, conducting programs in the community. being exposed to the life of the mind.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

The vast majority (63.9%) are white, followed by Asian Americans at 20.6%, according to 2022 data from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). Acosta adds that, as a first generation Latinx himself, he wants to know that the patients from his home community will receive and look forward to better healthcare in the future.

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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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