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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Research shows that having role models of the same race and ethnicity with whom you identify directly correlates and contributes to pursuit of and achievement in academic and professional endeavors,” says Kelly Grossman, communications and development manager at HISPA. in mathematics at Arizona State University.

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. Are our learners comfortable communicating in times of need and able to receive the support they need? Measuring progress is also critical.

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From College to Careers: The Pell Institute Receives $748,000 Ascendium Grant to Explore Career Development within TRIO Programs

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Within the context of TRIO programs, this research will focus on identifying institutional assets and barriers affecting first-generation and low-income learners’ career growth and developing an evidence-based theoretical model toward increasing awareness about institutional capacity. To learn more, visit ascendiumeducation.org.

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Corporate Scholarships: 25 Companies That May Help Pay for College

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Charter Communications. It provides scholarships to students in science, technology, engineering or mathematics (STEM) that attend a Historically Black College or University (HBCU). The general high school track scholarship is for graduating high school seniors with a GPA of 2.0 Charter Communications. AstraZeneca.

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

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She quickly recognized that certain hierarchical modes of operation don't work very well in a pandemic: "We had to bring together teams with different expertise, make decisions in real time, translate those decisions into actions, and then be able to communicate broadly about what we were doing. We do that every day at universities.

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Poll Highlights Top Concerns of Enrollment Leaders

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So, this disconnected-ness that comes from I communicate with you from a distance, I don't communicate with you so much in face-to-face relationships. And in state, out-of-state, first generation or not, men, women, all of that. MR: And then finally, they're disengaged. And then neither party ends up wasting time.

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The Council for Opportunity in Education Applauds Senators Susan Collins, Jon Tester, Shelley Moore Capito, and Tammy Baldwin for Reintroducing Bill to Strengthen the Federal TRIO Programs

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Congress created the TRIO programs because it recognized that low-income, first-generation students often face significant financial and societal obstacles to accessing and achieving success in higher education. Hamm, Associate Vice President of Communications and Marketing via email at terrance.hamm@coenet.org or call (202) 347-7430.