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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He works hard to ensure that he is living values of integrity, inclusiveness, collaboration in his work every day,” Sullivan continued. Rivera also notes Gonzales’ collaborative style. Renfro said Gonzales’ collaborative style has helped him to navigate the complicated politics of conservative-leaning Arizona.

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What We’re Learning About the Dual Enrollment Student Experience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many students also reported frequent collaboration with their peers in class and conversations with their instructors about their grades and assignments. African American and Latino students were less likely than white students to mark earning credit toward a four-year degree as a reason for participating in dual enrollment.

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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? The general education framework will ensure that students have a clear pathway to transfer with their general education requirements completed. Is it hiring a cabinet-level diversity officer with few resources and narrow authority?

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A first-generation Mexican-American and first-generation college student, Gonzalez says she has always been motivated to help her family move up the social mobility ladder. We collaborate with over 25 community partners where students obtain professional experience while serving the community.”

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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But as much as I am a higher ed scholar, I’m a Jotería scholar-activist because my academic upbringing was really informed by my lived experiences as a first-generation academic, Joto, and Latinx in higher ed.” “I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Most of the students are middle- and low-income and first-generation. To accomplish the goals that the fundraising will enable, she sees it as essential that the faculty, staff and board work collaboratively on the visioning for the university. I had to stand up and say, ‘It’s OK to ask for money,’” she continued. “I

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“If colleges of engineering, colleges of science, and quite frankly non-STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) academic units would build the infrastructure that CEED has, they, too, would see an increase in the achievement, success, graduation, and graduate enrollment for first-generation and underrepresented students.”

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