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Leaning Into Best Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the early aughts, Renick says, it was standard practice for student support programs to address equity gaps and low graduation or retention numbers through the creation of targeted programs, like initiatives for first-generation students, and African American male initiatives. postsecondary institutions.

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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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What Advancement Leaders Can Learn from Enrollment Leaders About Gen Z

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Blogs What Advancement Leaders Can Learn from Enrollment Leaders About Gen Z Three tactics to strengthen your advancement strategy There’s no denying the profound impact Generation Z has had on higher education. The first generation exposed to technology from an early age, Gen Z is comprised of “digital natives.”