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In 2020, we partnered with Intel to introduce the nations first AI and machine learning associates degree and certificate program. By partnering with Intel, our curriculum prepares students for real-world application. This Fall, Chandler-Gilbert Community College makes history as one of only three community colleges in the U.S.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Last year, more than 70% of the graduating seniors in our high schools completed a Free Application for Federal Student Aid, or FAFSA, and a Victor Valley application, and 40% enrolled. These efforts signal to students that we care about their success even before they set foot on our campus.

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APRIL 1, 2025

All of her personal and professional experiences created a presidential presence that stood out from an exceptional field of over 75 applicants," said Janet Lopez, chair of the FLC Board of Trustees. In 2022, Diverse named Shotton to its annual list of women making a difference in higher education. "I

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AUGUST 22, 2023

For a prospective college student beleaguered by the complexities of the application process, direct admissions is like a dream come true. Odle said that students tend to figure, “Once I’m in there, and I’ve already been admitted, why don’t I just go ahead and submit another application?” Non-first-generation students were 2.5

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JANUARY 12, 2025

As a first-generation Black college graduate from a low-income family, I reaped the benefits of mentorship from faculty and staff who come from similar backgrounds. However, the constant rejections and application fatigue forced me to question my purpose, compelling me to reconsider my "why."

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MAY 20, 2024

The nonprofit Common Application, which offers an online tool that many students use when looking to pursue an undergraduate education, is not being used by enough students who are from lower-income backgrounds, according to the organization’s inaugural Equity Innovations Guide. million students during the 2022-23 application cycle year.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Despite these challenges, there were some positive developments in the application phase. Black or African American applications increased by 2.8%, and Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish Origin applications rose by 2.2%. However, American Indian or Alaska Native applications decreased by 15.4%. "We of applicants, 55.1%

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Combined with the Apple App Store, which first debuted in 2008 with 500 phone applications, in less than 20 years, technology has revolutionized how the average consumer communicates, entertains themselves, and obtains information.

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AUGUST 13, 2024

law students and applicants. Tiffane Cochran However, the percentage of first-year law students who were people of color — 35% — barely changed between the 2021-22 and 2022-23 school years. On the other hand, 69% of Asian applicants received at least one offer, nearly on par with the average for all applicants, which was70%.

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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 It includes outreach and resources to counselors and families with students receiving direct admissions offers.

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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 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. From 2021 to 2024, the percentage of Latinx faculty applicants increased by 15%. By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S.

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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. 8 – had left applicants frustrated.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

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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NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The North Star Promise program is open to all Minnesota residents with a family Adjusted Gross Income (AGI) below $80,000, as reported on the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA).” Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students.

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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. Applications are open now through Feb. 6, 2023.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Yet legacy admissions policies that give preferential treatment to applicants who are related to alumni are still used across the country. Additional admissions guidance or financial support should be targeted to first-generation students and students from low-income backgrounds. A year ago, the U.S.

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APRIL 21, 2023

They’re going to know that 41% of students are first-generation, that we have an office of student belonging. Even applications are changing. Queens realized that students who were filling out its application were stopping when recommendations were requested. Those have been wildly helpful and popular,” said Maziarz.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? We have collaborated with the State Board to introduce completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) as a graduation requirement, which greatly increases the odds a student will apply to college.

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MARCH 7, 2024

level careers in research — for students who come from an economically disadvantaged background, are first-generation college students, or have faced significant obstacles in pursuit of higher education.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2022

From 2016 to 2021, domestic first-time enrollment went up by 3% – 8.7% Other findings in the report include that applications for admissions rose by 8.7%; applications for master’s degree or graduate-level certificate programs rose by 8.5%; and that applications for doctoral degrees saw notable increases as well, an 8.9%

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MARCH 31, 2024

The numbers released last week merely say that 1,245 applicants gained admission on last Thursday to next fall’s freshman class. That’s out of 54, 008 applicants which puts Harvard at a 3.6 Harvard’s still exclusive, but not as exclusive as other Ivies that saw its applications soar. percent admission rate. And there are 20.5

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APRIL 8, 2024

Not only have state financial aid programs not kept up with rising tuition, but they are also falling behind compared to changing demographics and the needs of today’s students, which include returning adults, student parents, and working first-generation students. Massachusetts’s programs do not require test scores or certain GPAs.

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APRIL 4, 2024

Amid ongoing issues with the new Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) form this year, the City University of New York (CUNY) is looking to help. We don’t want the unprecedented delays and changes in this year’s federal aid application process to deter them from coming to CUNY or any college." Matos Rodríguez. "We

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DECEMBER 4, 2023

Through intentional outreach to applicants, dedicated pathway programs, partnerships, curriculum, and programs specifically built to serve underserved populations, and a focus on regionality and socio-economic histories, UC Davis has become one of the most diverse medical school programs in the nation. What barriers have they overcome?

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JULY 26, 2023

Along that same line, experts spent the webinar discussing strategies and recent briefs on equitable admissions in higher ed, specifically on topics such as recruitment, legacy admissions, early action practices, test-optional and test-free policies, and holistic review of student applications.

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AUGUST 9, 2023

Colleges around the country rolled out their applications for the new admissions season at the beginning of August. In a unique move, Lafayette College announced that they would only consider up to six extracurricular activities , versus the maximum of ten that the Common Application allows students to list. Dr. Julie J.

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MARCH 31, 2024

The numbers released last week merely say that 1,245 applicants gained admission on last Thursday to next fall’s freshman class. That’s out of 54, 008 applicants which puts Harvard at a 3.6 Harvard’s still exclusive, but not as exclusive as other Ivies that saw its applications soar. percent admission rate. And there are 20.5

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The percentage of freshmen who are Black, Latinx, or Native nearly doubled between 2013 and 2021, and the share of first-generation students climbed nine points to 21 percent. Yale also became more financially accessible: the number of incoming freshmen who qualify for Pell grants doubled from his first year to 22% at present.

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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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JANUARY 31, 2023

Having gone through many auditions and college applications as a music and science major, I have learned quite a few things to help me through the process whilst being a first generation college student.

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MARCH 13, 2024

This year, helping her high school seniors through the newly simplified FAFSA application process has been more stressful than simple. Iné Collins has been a school counselor at Ewing High School in New Jersey since August 2022. Iné Collins, school counselor at Ewing High School in New Jersey.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

61% are first-generation college students. The California legislature has made large investments in college housing, but only a small percentage of colleges included housing for student parents in their applications for funds. “It affects women and people of color disproportionately and even more so women of color,” he said.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Rather than prioritizing dual enrollment students, who already have a relationship with the college, foundations continue to focus on reviewing scholarship applications from students who are already students enrolled on campus, full-time. This shift in focus requires a commitment to first generation college students, equity, and inclusion.

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MAY 18, 2023

However, they saw my identities, a Black kid from a lower-class family, and they saw a potential first-generation college student. Moore and Dr. Ijei were practicing its application. That is not hyperbole, I wrote this text with several college degrees, including a doctorate, in my faculty office. They saw all of me (i.e.,

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

Though the number of graduate school applications increased by 3.9%. between Fall 2021 and Fall 2022 – the largest rises being at master’s institutions (18.8%) and doctoral schools with High Research Activities (R2) (10.4%) – first-time enrollment saw an overall decline of 4.7%.

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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. There's clearly so much more need that exists than there is funding available,” Lindwarm said. “We

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