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When I was a freshman in Lee Hall, I never thought in my wildest dreams as a low-income person, first-generation college student, Black woman, that I would years later become a faculty member on the campus.

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The foundation emphasizes the need to focus on both recent high school graduates and adult learners returning to education.

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MARCH 20, 2025

A first-generation college student raised in rural Wyoming,Tromp brings nearly 30 years of experience in higher education. Her administrative experience includes serving as campus provost and executive vice chancellor at the University of California at Santa Cruz and vice provost and dean at Arizona State University.

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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. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

One example of achieving this is using AI to increase administrative automation of functions like live chat features on your college website with chatbot integrations like what we use at the Community College of Aurora. Remarkably, of those attending, 32% of all community college attendees are first-generation college students.

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JUNE 20, 2024

Jones Maurice Jones has been appointed chief executive officer at The Center for First-Generation Student Success, an initiative of NASPA—Student Affairs Administrators in Higher Education and The Suder Foundation. Jones, founder of the professional and business services firm MJConnects, served as CEO of OneTen.

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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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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

They serve our country’s fastest-growing demographics—from students of color and first-generation students to adult learners and transfer students—and create pathways to social and economic mobility.” “It’s an honor to join AASCU at a time when regional comprehensive universities are poised to make a critical impact.

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APRIL 29, 2024

He is a cited authority on the first-generation college student population and has presented academic papers both nationally and internationally. Hicks holds bachelor’s degree in business administration and master’s in counseling education, both from Virginia State University.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students. There are 11 federally recognized American Indian tribes in Minnesota. Among the requirements for some Native American specific scholarships are uploading tribal I.D. annually, getting a signed form from the tribe proving descendancy, community service and an essay requirement.

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APRIL 9, 2025

DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE. HBCUs have always been innovating for generations. They're educating first-generation college students and turning them into global leaders that's innovation.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Outside of higher ed, McFrazier was a public-school teacher and administrator in the Waco Independent School District. His professional research interests include first-generation college student academic self-efficacy and minority male academic achievement and mentorship. He will lead PVAMU until Dr. Tomikia P.

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APRIL 25, 2024

The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities. That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum.

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MARCH 12, 2025

I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students. My transition into administration was an act of resistance and liberation. I remember searchingto no availfor a textbook that contextualized the lived experiences of my students.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Almost 4,500 students from 17 colleges across 11 states responded to the fall 2022 DESSE pilot administration. Since this was a pilot administration, the survey results may not be generalizable to a larger population — but they provide early insights into this growing population of college students.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Drawing from his unique trajectory as a first-generation college student turned HBCU president and professor, Black, Not Historically Black combines scholarly analysis with raw personal testimony to create a work that is both an indictment and a love letter to these vital institutions.

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APRIL 9, 2023

Gonzales said he did not necessarily aspire to be a higher ed administrator at that point, but it became a natural extension of his core passion for education. “I I can’t necessarily say that it was something I ever aspired to do,” said Gonzales of being a college administrator. “I That’s what I take from him.” Because I had no idea.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Her research targets first-generation students, immigrant students, equity and diversity, higher education policy and governance, personnel development, and higher education finance. She oversees various WashU programs including its unified career center and its Center for Diversity & Inclusion.

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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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JANUARY 5, 2023

A first-generation college student, Doré has led an extensive career in the community college sector, having been in various roles such as instructor, director, department chair, dean, president, and executive vice chancellor. David Doré will become chancellor of the Virginia Community College System (VCCS), effective Apr.

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JUNE 26, 2024

She’s solidified the administration, faculty, and staff, which was previously prone to attrition. She connected the dots and realized that CMC was losing students by not recruiting more of its regional K-12 students and their families, many of whom are Latinx, first-generation, and immigrants.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

As a student activist, a longtime faculty member, and an administrator in higher education, I am particularly proud of two career accomplishments. They stood for the successful culmination of multiple generations of student advocacy. Too many of them viewed Black culture centers as unnecessary and racially discriminatory.

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MARCH 3, 2024

A total of 13 full-time employees and 15 administrative appointees at the university lost their jobs. Our students —students of color, queer students, students with disabilities, women, first-generation students, veterans, students from lower-income backgrounds, and other students from all backgrounds—deserve nothing less."

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

“Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Dr. Kayon Hall, assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio.

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MAY 29, 2024

It is bestowed annually to individuals who have made outstanding contributions with sustained commitments to diversity in higher education.

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MAY 2, 2024

We as a faculty, Black faculty and others, have been fighting the administration to address matters of racial justice, and in a very forceful and progressive manner, for the last 20 years or so in different iterations,” said King in an interview with Diverse. Racism came from administrators, colleagues, and even students.

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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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MAY 18, 2023

I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebrated my history. We often smiled at each other in the hallway. In 5 th grade, Ms. They saw all of me (i.e.,

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Teniente-Matson holds a Bachelor of Arts in management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks; a Master of business administration from the University of Alaska Anchorage; and a doctorate in educational leadership from Fresno State.

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MAY 9, 2023

I think it’s because I’m a first-generation student from a low-income area,” said the master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education. “I Terrell Foundation that aims to help minoritized students develop into scholar-practitioners, administrators who can also do research.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Though men were overall more likely than women to enroll full-time in Fall 2022, of the 508,646 graduate students who enrolled for the first time, 57.8% We know that the pandemic and its aftermath had led to inflation and new financial pressures on all Americans, but in particular first-generation students,” Kent said. “We

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JULY 25, 2024

This document, a roadmap for the next conservative presidential administration, frames diversity and inclusion efforts as a coordinated attack on American values, advocating for a radical restructuring of federal education policy that would have devastating consequences for historically underrepresented students.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Thirteen positions, 15 administrative appointments for faculty, the chief diversity officer role, and DEI contracts with outside vendors — ALL GONE. The same campus that recruited, supported, and welcomed me as a first-generation college student in the 1990s would likely be ill-equipped to do the same today. Dr. Susan D.

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MARCH 13, 2024

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. Nina Longino, executive director of iMentor, Chicago.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Rodriguez’s affinity for the work grew while studying at Sonoma State University, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in criminology and criminal justice studies and a master’s degree in public administration.

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JULY 12, 2023

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as CSU chancellor allows me to continue my deep commitment to serving the new majority of students – low-income, first-generation, and/or students of color –and to expand their access to postsecondary education.

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