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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Approximately 33% of ASU’s enrollment is dual credit students (3,700 students taking both high school and college courses), 43% of whom are Latinos and first-generation college students. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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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. Seventy-two and a half percent of the students in the program are first-generation college students and 75% are Pell grant eligible.

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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Both are first-generation college students, grew up in migrant farming communities, have a background in mathematics, and served as president of MCCCD institutions (before Gonzales became chancellor of MCCCD). I can relate to some of those fears and unknowns as a first-generation student when you just don’t know what you don’t know.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I'm a first-generation student. It not only contributes to increasing Latine students’ educational and political opportunities, but it also contributes to the advancement of methodological techniques to study contemporary issues of equity in politics. And I'm a product of a lot of outreach work.

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A Black Scholar’s Journey in Shaping Study Abroad Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That meant expanding the base of opportunity to students of color, to non-traditional students, to first-generation students, to students for whom study abroad was not considered a possibility financially.” But you can’t be what you don't see, Dabney says.

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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many are first-generation college students, work while attending school part-time, and have parenting responsibilities. Community colleges, as for their students, can be smart career choices for faculty who are most interested in teaching and student success.

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A Race to Find Diverse Candidates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Even though the landscape of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in higher education may have changed over the last three years, institutional and academic search firms say their commitment to identifying leaders, staff, and faculty who embody the essence of DEI work remains strong. and even around the world to fill key vacancies.