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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Current Fresno State students serve as culturally responsive ambassadors trained to work with students and families, making in-person visits to local high schools, offering guidance on admissions, college knowledge, awareness of degree majors and career pathways, financial literacy and accessing support services on campus once enrolled.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The focus on English skills needed in an academic setting and tailored support services through the Academic Literacy & Language (ALL) Center have proven beneficial. Every participating student receives academic support, tutoring, career introductions, experiential learning opportunities and useful credentials. “We

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. The Educational Opportunity Program (EOP) supports first-generation, low-income students, 81% of whom are Latino, in overcoming social and economic barriers to higher education.

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Learning and Teaching from Adversity: Meet TRIO Star Kontessa Siliski

Castleton Trio

Kontessa found a warm welcome at Castleton’s Academic Support Center (ASC). Through the ASC’s TRIO Tuesdays and Financial Literacy workshops, she learned about college life and financial aid opportunities. She has also served as a financial literacy mentor, organizing the very sessions that proved so useful to her.

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Three Strategies to Support K-12 Students with Their Mental Health Challenges

EAB

Students need support bridging back into their day-to-day routines, completing their course of care, reintegrating socially, and catching up on their academics. Improving Early Literacy Through the Science of Reading. Strategies to Develop Ongoing, Wellness-Focused Campaigns. Ready to find out more? July 27, 2022.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Some of the topics include literacy and math, advising Black male engineering majors, socio-emotional development, leadership, community college experiences, Black male veterans, athletes in P-12 and higher education, and the recruitment and retention of Black males in educator preparation programs.

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Bullying

SRI Education

Intervene early with both social-emotional and academic supports. Mission I’m possible: Effects of a community-based project on the basic literacy skills of at-risk kindergarteners. 2013; Kljakovic & Hunt, 2016; Oncioiu et al., Resources: Child Trends – What works for reducing problem behaviors in Early Childhood?