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Empowering Community Colleges Through AI: A New Era of Access and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The following are three considerations for educators serving this critical higher education sector to consider: Access As expressed in an article I wrote earlier this year, AI should be used as a tool to enhance human interaction rather than replace it altogether.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students. Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. In the 2022-23 academic year, the College Fund supported more than 4,000 Native American scholars in 43 states to attend 267 colleges and universities.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’”

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. Lehman faculty are encouraged to look through their curriculum and pedagogy to make it more relevant to their Latinx students, in part, through Spanish-language programs and through the school’s Department of Latin American and Latino Studies.

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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 design the curriculum individually to students’ needs. Natacha DePaola, professor of Biomedical Engineering at Illinois Tech.

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Expanding Horizons: The 2024 Keith Sherin Global Leaders Program 

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For first-generation and low-income students, these programs can be life-changing, offering experiences that might otherwise be out of reach. This sentiment was echoed by Jade Buchanan from Suffolk University, who noted that the experience taught her about the shared humanity that transcends geographical divides. this summer.

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Aaron Mitchell shares how to land your first job

Close the Gap Foundation

In addition to the everyday curriculum of our program, we work with guest speakers who bring their professional skills and personal stories into workshops for the students. He never considered a career in human resources. That was until he heard about human resources.