Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2025

By focusing on employer needs, we have launched eight bachelors degrees in crucial areas including nursing, education, information technology, and public safety administration. Today, 61 percent of students entering our baccalaureate programs are first-generation and 41 percent are new to the community college system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Students' decisions to pursue and complete higher education are shaped by access to information, available resources, and the quality of their college experience. The foundation emphasizes the need to focus on both recent high school graduates and adult learners returning to education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. These inform strategic decisions to address inequities and improve outcomes. … Santiago and Sarita E. Neufeldt, president of CSUSM.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 3, 2024

“When I first met with my advisor, I was excited to dive into my program,” says Maria, a first-generation community college student. This dynamic not only informs how we advocate for students but also shapes how we collaborate with faculty, staff, and other leaders to build systems that uplift every learner.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Of them, 2,718 were first-generation college students. One of the first 10 questions that a student encounters in the FAFSA is ‘Who is your parent or guardian and what is their income information?’ Demographic information about the recipients was not available.

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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. Amid news that the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school. We have a first-generation student center on campus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

My professional training and my lived experiences inform my perspective in a world that often seeks to undermine the voices of women who look like me. I began teaching College Success courses to first generation, low income, multicultural students. I understand firsthand the challenges students face because I have lived them.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

HBCUs have always been innovating for generations. They're educating first-generation college students and turning them into global leaders that's innovation. We're connected to the information system of the institution, and gone are the days where you need to get forms signed in triplicate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. Excelencia in Education works to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

The curriculum’s first course, “The Students We Have,” is currently available for free to colleges throughout the nation. Interested participants can expect narrative video content, data-informed best practices, reflection activities and self-assessments.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Seventy-one percent of its students are first-generation college students and more than half are Pell eligible. This leadership position enables her to further her commitment to inclusive excellence. CSU Stanislaus is an Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Dual enrollment can expose students to the rigor of college-level work, provide them vital information regarding transfer, and help them feel more confident about attending college. Students in dual enrollment programs enjoy many benefits — participation provides them a jump-start on gaining college credit, and it can save them money.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2024

Esdaile said the book did not include information about the university’s historical ties to eugenics and further criticized whether $10 million for student to return to Yale would help people of color. Connecticut NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile complained about the book, Yale and Slavery: A History , published alongside Yale’s apology.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

At an information session held Tuesday evening by the White House and the Department of Education, representatives said they were doing everything they could to troubleshoot and solve FAFSA problems as they arose. Nina Longino, executive director of iMentor, Chicago.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

They’re gathering information and trying to decipher if they’re a good fit,” says Lord. Students value hindsight information. Lord brings her background as a low-income, first-generation student with her in all her research and work. It’s a way for students to stay connected, says Lord.

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Active Minds

JULY 14, 2023

After devoting months to their research, the Scholars presented their findings at the Active Minds Mental Health Conference, and participants were left equipped with information and resources that they could use to aid in supporting the mental health of our BIPOC communities. Name : Jadon A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

UDL is a flexible learning environment where information is presented in multiple formats, and learners can engage with the material, and demonstrate their learning, in the way that works best for them. Many of today’s college students identify as disabled, first-generation, or students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

It may not be immediately obvious, particularly for first-generation learners.” As many Black learners, particularly first-generation, don’t persist beyond their first year in higher education, retention efforts are essential. This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2024

Department of Education (ED) pushed back the date that it would be sending colleges students’ information, Institutional Student Information Records (ISIRs), from January to the first half of March due, in part, to calculation errors. CUNY has pushed back its own deadline to June 1.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

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. The moment to really intervene is as soon as it happens.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

They’re going to know that 41% of students are first-generation, that we have an office of student belonging. They’re going to know that we’re a Hispanic-serving institution. It’s not a footnote in the conversation, it’s part of the bread and butter of the Montclair experience.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 27, 2024

So, for those powerful stories she heard as a child from her first-generation immigrant grandfather — who entered the U.S. from Stanford University, she now teaches the kind of information that she always wanted to learn. California’s public schools didn’t teach Asian American history to a young Dr. Beth Lew-Williams.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. The day’s panels and speakers discussed a wide range of issues and provided attendees with information on raising the bar for advising and student support. Speakers addressed evidence-based practices, collaboration, access, and advising.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Nellum added that the information in the reports is of national relevance. “It 61% are first-generation college students. Nellum, executive director of EdTrust-West, an organization that focuses on racial equity and educational justice. 47% work full-time and 83% enroll part-time or for part of the year.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Outcomes: Achieved significant improvements in persistence and streamlined processes through a data-informed approach and strong faculty partnerships. Strategy : Shifting to a Proactive, Data-Informed Advising Model Despite their busy schedules, advisors needed a way to connect with at-risk students who were not actively seeking help.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

The interviews with the first-generation college-going Mexican Americans were conducted in a specific manner so as to best gather testimonios , a manner grounded in Chicana feminist theories and indigenous theories, Trejo said. She then offers a series of recommendations that other schools can take to improve.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

How many institutions are aware or have acted on this information? This shift in focus requires a commitment to first generation college students, equity, and inclusion. The data shows that, from 2011 through 2020, there was a 39% drop in Black male enrollment in colleges across the United States.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Alexander oversees the legacy of the Academic Advancement Program (AAP) at UCLA, one of the longest running academic support programs for first-generation, low-income, and underrepresented students. It is providing greater access for students from low-income, first-generation backgrounds. Charles Alexander Dr. Charles J.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

56% of undergraduate institutions reported using technology to recruit international students through events like virtual college fairs and online information sessions. Technology was critical to the ways in which schools internationalized during the pandemic. This represented an increase of 16% from before the pandemic.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2024

A lot of my work is grounded in how Hip Hop informs student experiences in college,” Livingston said. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 8, 2024

Not only have state financial aid programs not kept up with rising tuition, but they are also falling behind compared to changing demographics and the needs of today’s students, which include returning adults, student parents, and working first-generation students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

There are issues now that we face that rely on a certain level of science and scientific knowledge in order to be an informed citizen. Disaggregated research on how civic engagement pedagogies impact students of color, rural, low-income, and first-generation students is also sparse. That’s an area for us to go deeper.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

For Latine learners, who face barriers such as financial challenges, limited academic preparation, lack of institutional representation, navigational difficulties as first-generation students, and work and family responsibilities, a differentiated coaching approach enhances academic success while fostering a sense of belonging and empowerment.

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Active Minds

MARCH 11, 2024

Learn more about our 2024 Emerging Scholars and their incredible research: Denisse Aguilar Michel Mental Health of College Students: Lasting Impact of Covid-19 Denisse Aguilar is a first-generation immigrant and undergraduate student at Goshen College, double majoring in psychology and sociology with a concentration in women’s studies.

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UofO First-Generation Student Support Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

A message from the First-Generation Student Working Group Co-Chairs, Christabelle Dragoo and Angela Rovak. Dear First-Generation Students, Faculty, and Staff –. And now, as Co-Chairs, we are honored to be here to help you reach your goal of becoming a first-generation college graduate ! SAVE THE DATE!

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