Active Minds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Active Minds is proud to announce the 2023 Emerging Scholars Fellowship cohort! Jadon’s project will explore the mental health of BIPOC individuals who are first-generation college students. Sandra Gomez Sandra Gomez (she/her/ella) is a proud Chicana first-generation student from Illinois and Durango, Mexico.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In 2023, the World Economic Forum reported that employers expected 44% of workers skills to be disrupted within five years. Remarkably, of those attending, 32% of all community college attendees are first-generation college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Logan Powell Frank Mullin The university reports that about 18% of its new 1,725-student class come from groups historically underrepresented in higher education, a decline from 27% in 2023. About 45% will receive need-based scholarship or grant aid, a decrease from 50%; and roughly 14% are first-generation college students, down from 15%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Jenny Rickard First-generation and low and middle-income students interesting in attending college will receive proactive admissions offers through the newly launched 2024-25 Common App Direct Admissions Program. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 13, 2024

Some measures of academic success also declined for law students of color in 2023. AccessLex found that in 2023, the proportion of law degrees awarded to students of color was the highest recorded — 31% of degree recipients were non-white. law students and applicants. But we know that's just not the case.” As of Friday, there were 5.7%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

First-generation college student matriculants declined by 2.3%, while applicants with parents in service, clerical, skilled, and unskilled occupations decreased by 2.2%. The number of military veterans entering medical school also dropped slightly, from 171 in 2023 to 166 in 2024. In the wake of the 2023 U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

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. Spurred on by these findings, Common App then launched a full-scale, 71-school version of this program in Fall 2023.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students. Positive Potential Minnesota also has the American Indian Scholars Program, which was established in the 2023 legislative session.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Department of Education (ED) is delaying the sending out of student information relevant for financial aid calculations to institutions, higher ed scholars and officials have voiced concern and uncertainty over how this change will affect low-income and first-generation students in particular.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Katya Echazarreta, the first Mexican-born woman in space, will be partnering with McDonald’s USA to encourage Hispanic students to pursue higher education. 6, 2023. Applications are open now through Feb.

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Active Minds

JUNE 22, 2023

Welcome to our summer 2023 interns! I really resonated with the main character, and reading it helped me feel closer to my culture as a first-generation immigrant. Thank you again to our wonderful cohort of summer 2023 interns — we couldn’t do this work without you! I move constantly.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Priscilla Rodriguez Starting 2023, all SAT exams outside of the U.S. As a first-generation American and the child of immigrants who came to the U.S. will use the digital format, with the U.S. itself following suit in 2024.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Dr. 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

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Bennett will become dean of Duke University’s Trinity College of Arts & Sciences, effective Feb. Dr. Gary G. Bennett Bennett, a behavioral scientist, is currently vice provost for undergraduate education and professor of psychology & neuroscience, global health, and medicine at Duke.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The schools aim to finalize merging by June 30, 2023. And its historic campus will remain and continue to focus on first-generation students. Bloomfield is the state’s only four-year private college serving predominantly Black and Hispanic students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 4, 2023

29, the new federal spending plan is set to increase the Pell Grant in 2023, allowing low-income students a chance to access up to $7,395 each year. The new total is a record high for the program, first created in 1972. With President Biden’s signature on Dec.

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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

JULY 11, 2024

"Welcome Jags" sign from Fall 2023 at Texas A&M University-San Antonio. From TAMUSA Photo Archives, "Jaguar March", Aug 2023. Ochoa said that 80% of TAMUSA’s transfer students come to them from Alamo Colleges, and 70% of TAMUSA students are first-generation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

When the fall 2023 term begins, close to 20% of community college students will also be high school students who are dually enrolled. Courtney Adkins The beginning of the fall academic term brings to mind images of freshly graduated high school students arriving on college campuses across the country.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

since spring 2023, which means over 359,000 more students enrolled this spring to pursue their bachelor’s degree, associate degree, or certificate. institutions. Their new report, " Current Term Enrollment Estimates Spring 2024 ," shows that undergraduate enrollment grew 2.5% If we look at the rates [of increase], 2.5%

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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

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. And according to the group Stop AAPI Hate in 2023, there have been more than 11,000 reported acts of hate against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders since March 2020. Neither did college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Hispanic women earned 85 cents for every dollar earned by Hispanic men in 2023. Empowerment Through Education Education is the ticket to achieving the American dream for many immigrants and first-generation Americans. Yet the findings also illuminate the depth of the remaining challenges. When my family moved to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

These plans were subsequently executed when Acebo took the helm as interim president of the university in January 2023. In June 2023, the school formed a partnership with Hudson County Community College for HCCC|NJCU CONNECT , a dual-admission initiative that leads to degree pathways.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2023

From November 9th to the 12th, Indiana University’s Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center will host the 2023 Association for Black Culture Centers (ABCC) Conference. We must demand that institutions respond more effectively to the interests and needs of Black students and of first-generation students.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Long-Time TRIO Professionals Honored with 2023 Walter O. Mason Awards September 12, 2023 — by Maura Casey The Walter O. At the Council for Opportunity in Education’s 2023 Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., three TRIO professionals received the Walter O. Mason Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 26, 2024

A focus on first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students — serving their needs is essential,” Dr. Marybeth Gasman, the Samuel DeWitt Proctor Endowed Chair in Education at Rutgers University, wrote in an email to Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Brian McKenzie The report, Graduate Enrollment and Degrees: 2012 to 2022 , publishes the findings of the longstanding CGS/GRE Survey of Graduate Enrollment and Degrees, which received usable responses from 558 colleges and universities this cycle and ran from November 2022 to May 2023. "We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 8, 2024

According to the Pew Research Center in December 2023, only 39% of male high school graduates enroll in college. Before its July 2023 merger with MSU, Bloomfield College was one of two Primarily Black Institutions (PBIs) in the state. With the pandemic, we lost a large percentage of our minority males.

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COE

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Isabel Wilkerson’s Powerful Address on America’s Caste System Opens the 2023 COE Annual Conference September 11, 2023 — by Maura Casey Isabel Wilkerson’s keynote at COE’s 2023 Annual Conference addressed America’s caste system, emphasizing collective responsibility for change and historical parallels.

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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.

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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. And according to the group Stop AAPI Hate in 2023, there have been more than 11,000 reported acts of hate against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders since March 2020. Neither did college.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

The 2023-24 school year saw 12 pilot initiatives implemented, Oviedo says. 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.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

We’re proud to announce and congratulate the recipients of the 2023 Dr. Irving Fradkin Legacy Awards: Burlington-Edison Alumni Foundation Dollars for Scholars , Washington: $15,000 Student Support Award, to initiate or expand support beyond scholarships.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The program reached first-time college goers as well, and 56% of the 2022 promise cohort identify as first-generation. With its growth, and with more gifts from generous donors, Moore said he has plans to expand the Promise Program. IRSC’s 2023 cohort will be offered to the area’s homeschooled students as well.

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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. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I

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Scholarship America

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Heading into the final month of 2023, we have some incredible scholarship opportunities for all kinds of students. Francisco is a first-generation college student, and he says : “I plan to open my own restaurant in the future, and this scholarship truthfully brings me one step closer to achieving my goals.

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