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Negotiating the Future: How HBCUs and MSIs Can Leverage Strategic Enrollment Management for Institutional Resilience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Declining birth rates, changingstudent expectations, shifting public sentiment, and persistent underfunding place extraordinary pressure on institutions that have long served as lifelines for students of color and first-generation learners. Yet amid these challenges lies an opportunity.

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As Decision Day Looms, Colleges Try to Boost Minority Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They’re going to know that 41% of students are first-generation, that we have an office of student belonging. Montclair offers events on the Black student experience and a session with the Latinx/a/o Caucus. These events take place over Zoom, so that prospective students from across the world can participate.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GBC hosts Hispanic Heritage Month events, encourages participation in the Organization for Latin Americans, provides bilingual resources and creates leadership opportunities. For students that happen to be first-generation as well as Hispanic, they need assistance and coaching on the admissions process,” Bias said.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

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There is also HISPA’s Latinos in College, a leadership development program for mostly first-year, first-generation students. The organization partners with a local university to host a full-day event. About 200 students attended each event.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The goal was to bring new and exciting events and speakers that were accessible to students and to build awareness and provide some educational and engaging programming and resources that would offer a sense of community and belonging to our students,” says Roth. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation.

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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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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. Among many achievements, the seminal events of Fox’s presidency were the transition from a college (founded in 1842) to a university and making the institution coeducational.