Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

Mildred García MLI – launched in 1999 – is a leadership development program that aims to equip higher ed leaders from traditionally underrepresented communities with skills and networks to become college presidents. MLI stands as a magnet for talented people looking to bring something different to American higher education leadership.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Title :Assistant Dean for Student Vitality & Career Development and Director of Student Affairs Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Virginia; MBA in Business Administration, Averett University; Ph.D I was a first-generation college student, neither of my parents went to college, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? These advisors help students apply to any colleges of their choosing and are a tremendous asset to first-generation students who often find the application process daunting. It is time for transformative system change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Teniente-Matson holds a Bachelor of Arts in management from the University of Alaska Fairbanks; a Master of business administration from the University of Alaska Anchorage; and a doctorate in educational leadership from Fresno State.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 12, 2023

This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to serve as CSU chancellor allows me to continue my deep commitment to serving the new majority of students – low-income, first-generation, and/or students of color –and to expand their access to postsecondary education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

Vanessa Cerano, a master’s candidate in educational leadership at the California State University, Fullerton College of Education Vanessa Cerano was always curious about academic research, but she, like Evans, never saw herself actually doing any. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 22, 2024

Dr. Frank Fernandez, an associate professor of higher education leadership and policy at the University of Florida, said it will likely be Black, Brown, low-income, and first-generation students who will be most negatively impacted by FAFSA’s glitches.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Abiola Farinde-Wu, assistant professor of urban education, leadership, and policy studies at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. For-profit institutions tend to be known for aggressive student recruitment, but what happens after they enroll?” said Dr. Mikyung Ryu, director of research publications at the Clearinghouse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

Livingston studied history as an undergraduate and volunteered frequently in Durham and Chapel Hill, which introduced him to the world of college advising and supporting first-generation college students. in educational leadership and cultural foundations from UNC Greensboro.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2024

in educational leadership and policy analysis from UW–Madison’s School of Education. The first-generation college graduate served as UW–Madison’s deputy vice chancellor for diversity and inclusion, vice provost, and chief diversity officer for the past three years.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They have created special programs for students who are under-served, at risk, first generation, Black males, women, migrants, and prisoners. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership, Department of Educational Leadership, College of Education, Kansas State University. Roueche and Margaretta B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

Faculty take pride in their work to advance educational access and success for students from all walks of life. Many are first-generation college students, work while attending school part-time, and have parenting responsibilities. The Roueche Center Forum is co-edited by Drs. Roueche and Margaretta B. Mathis of the John E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 3, 2023

LaVar Charleston studied public relations, marketing, educational leadership and policy analysis. The effort was quite simple: to improve the Black male educational pipeline. Dr. Sherri Charleston is the first chief diversity and inclusion officer at Harvard University. Sherri Charleston studied the intersection of U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

Louisville native Dr. Jabani Bennett is an interdisciplinary visual artist, yoga instructor, community-engaged educator, leadership consultant, dancer, and mama. She is also the first Black and openly queer director in the University of Louisville Women’s Center’s 30-year history.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Named by a Forbes article in 2019 as the most influential voice in college admission, he strives to build an educational ecosystem that better represents today’s society. “As As a first-generation student who grew up in poverty, a scholarship gave me the opportunity to attend college and live an extraordinary life,” said Pérez.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 7, 2024

He also worked at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and served as an instructor of education and political science at three different colleges in Arkansas. On this episode from the Weekly Wisdom podcast series, we spoke Dr. Charles Welch , President and CEO of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 20, 2023

Daniel Collier, assistant professor of higher and adult education in the department of leadership at the University of Memphis Collier described the changes as “an absolute win” for stopped out students, many of whom are first-generation and/or minoritized.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum. It eliminates the confusion of having to make choices among hundreds of courses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

They have generated leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, groundbreaking artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, and activists who shaped the Black experience and the fabric of American society. Dr. Patricia Green-Powell is Professor of Educational Leadership at Florida A&M University. Dr. Adriel A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

First generation college students navigate multifaceted and intersectional identities while contending with the barriers related to those identities and social circumstances. Higher education leadership must emphasize its key role in a vision of a society that centers, involves and supports people in the community.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

Intergenerational mentorship, in particular, provides invaluable opportunities for younger women to learn from seasoned leaders, enriching their perspectives and preparing them to take on future leadership roles. Their leadership provides opportunities for first-generation college students, minority scholars, and women in STREAM fields.

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