Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 18, 2025
Among the most impactful changes was the shift from traditional 15-week terms to seven-week terms, along with the introduction of a more personalized advising system. Southwestern Oregon Community College, an ATD member since 2012, has distinguished itself through its targeted support of adult learners and first-generation students.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Stronger collaboration between the two is essential to design systems that ensure the information gathered through improved grading methods not only guides college admissions but also informs college placement, academic advising, and other methods for students' continued learning and growth once enrolled.
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 7, 2025
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. Determined to address these barriers, she returned to UGA to pursue a doctorate, shifting her focus to policy change.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 22, 2024
Frank Fernandez, an associate professor of higher education leadership and policy at the University of Florida, said it will likely be Black, Brown, low-income, and first-generation students who will be most negatively impacted by FAFSA’s glitches.
Active Minds
JULY 19, 2023
No one ever told me how hard it would be to navigate my mental health as one of the many first-generation students entering college each year. I ignored my RA’s knock for the first week. I ignored my RA’s knock for the first week. I sat in the dorm room without a bathroom or proper food.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 13, 2023
As a student, as a scholar, as a Black student, as an FLI [first-generation, low-income] student, it was everything that I needed for it to be,” said Kiara Gilbert, who had Glaude as her junior paper and senior thesis adviser. “I Cornel West, and Dr. Nell Painter. “As In 2014, Diverse named Glaude an Emerging Scholar.
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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