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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

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Despite other opportunities available to him, he decided to pursue a degree in mathematics secondary education. But as the pandemic raged on and upended life for MCCCD students and faculty, Gonzales endeavored to stay focused on them. “I For Dr. Steven R. Gonzales, education is a lifelong calling. The rest is history.

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Pride in the Halls

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Guttman recently institutionalized its Lavender Graduation, a pre-graduation ceremony for LGBTQ students which the president, provost, and members of the faculty attend. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation. This academic year, 575 students are being supported. Dr. Luis A.

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Five Questions That College Leaders Should Be Asking to Improve Student Success in 2024

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To better serve these learners, institutions must build programs for the busy adults and first-generation students who make up significant and growing shares of today’s college population. Faculty and staff should check in regularly with their students to see how they’re faring not just in school but in their lives.

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Landscape Review Finds More Questions in Link Between Higher Ed and Civic Engagement

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There are campuses and faculty who are committed to developing the civic engagement of students who are scientists, and also linking the understanding of science as an important piece of our civic knowledge,” said Brown. Brown agreed and added that this study should prompt a lot of questions for institutional leaders and researchers.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

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Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. There is power in being a role model, he says, and that’s why he wants to make sure undergrads and graduates can see themselves represented in Lehman faculty, staff, and administration. are white and only 21% are faculty of color.

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How to Move Latinx Students into High-Paying Jobs

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This year, Excelencia also examined three specific areas of industry projected to grow by roughly 10% by 2031: STEM (statistics, technology, engineering and mathematics), healthcare, and educational professions. Dr. Elizabeth Béjar, provost at Florida International University.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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“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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