Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

There is also HISPA’s Latinos in College, a leadership development program for mostly first-year, first-generation students. HISPA has received several awards and recognitions for its impact, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2020.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

So, leadership is listening deeply, engaging with others, valuing collaboration and partnership, and encouraging everybody else on the team to work together in a solutions-oriented way." Dr. Larive is a first-generation college graduate, earning her BS from South Dakota State University and her MS from Purdue University, both in chemistry.

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Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

As covered in Inside Higher Ed : “One particularly troubling enrollment trend exacerbated by the pandemic … is the decline of underrepresented groups—specifically Black, first-generation and low-income students. Finally, scholarship providers are in a unique position to help students develop peer networks among their fellow recipients.

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