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Radford University Low-Income Students Get Leg Up with $1.2M Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Radford University Class of 2027 Radford University in Virginia has received a $1.2 Currently at Radford, we have a [student] population of 37% Pell-eligible students, and depending on the year, there’s usually 30% to 35% first-generation students as well.

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What Can the Class of 2023 Expect This Fall?

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As the high school class of 2023 graduates, around two million of its members are poised to join the college class of 2027. What does that mean for the class of 2027 ? In short, if you graduated from a school in an affluent community in 2023, you’re much more likely to be a debt-free member of the college class of 2027.

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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Most of the kids who are going overseas are not first-generation students; [they] are kids from middle class, upper-middle class backgrounds from the more prestigious colleges and universities.” “In terms of student mobility, there wasn’t much equity to start with,” said Dr. Philip G. He cited issues with democracy in the U.S.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. The grant will run through 2027, and has allowed The Mount to hire support staff for tutoring and the development of new academic modules that support STEM specialists.

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Scholarship America Announces Community-Based Organizations Pilot Program

Scholarship America

Our organizational goal is to distribute a majority of our scholarship funds to students from historically marginalized communities with high financial need by 2027, and CBOs will be essential partners as we work toward that goal.

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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey

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EAB · How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence the College Journey LEARN ABOUT COLLEGE GREENLIGHT College Greenlight is the nation's largest community of professionals supporting and recruiting first-generation, lower-income, and historically underserved students. Why do you need that? What do you do? What are these things meaning.