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Community College Leader Recognized as 2023 Diverse Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2023

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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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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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What We’re Learning About the Dual Enrollment Student Experience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

African American and Latino students were less likely than white students to mark earning credit toward a four-year degree as a reason for participating in dual enrollment.

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Fill Graduation Gaps, Transform Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 20, 2023

Is it developing boutique programs on each campus for diverse, first-generation students? These advisors help students apply to any colleges of their choosing and are a tremendous asset to first-generation students who often find the application process daunting. It is time for transformative system change.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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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Diverse Students Are Going Hungry at the Cafeteria Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Terry O’Banion Community college students who are from lower socio-economic backgrounds, are first generation, and who have not been successful in high school are starving to death trying to find educational sustenance at the cafeteria curriculum. It eliminates the confusion of having to make choices among hundreds of courses.

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

Most of the students are middle- and low-income and first-generation. So, it would lead to feeling that they belong here at the university because when you’re first-generation you don’t always feel like you belong. The challenge was how do we raise that money because that wasn’t part of our ethos or our culture. “I

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Conway-Turner: From First-Gen Student to 43-Year Career Retirement

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2023

As a first-generation college student, she appreciated the process of education and embraced its transformative aspects. It generated excitement and investment in current programs, our students and scholarships,” she said. “We

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

For students that happen to be first-generation as well as Hispanic, they need assistance and coaching on the admissions process,” Bias said. Most recently, the university has developed its first-generation center. Sometimes, that involves looking at what students need on an individual basis.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

I'm a first-generation student. As an undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, she worked with fellow classmates and friends to mentor middle school and high school students throughout Texas. And I'm a product of a lot of outreach work. TRIO programs supported my path toward college,” says López.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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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A Black Scholar’s Journey in Shaping Study Abroad Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

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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The Neglected Minority

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 11, 2023

They have created special programs for students who are under-served, at risk, first generation, Black males, women, migrants, and prisoners. Community colleges have taken great pride over many decades as an open-door institution welcoming students who had no other place to go.

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Why Community Colleges Are Smart Choices for Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 2, 2023

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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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2023

But as much as I am a higher ed scholar, I’m a Jotería scholar-activist because my academic upbringing was really informed by my lived experiences as a first-generation academic, Joto, and Latinx in higher ed.” “I am a higher ed scholar, that’s where my academic upbringing is,” Gonzalez told Diverse.

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How Three Bronx Institutions are Intentionally Hispanic-Serving

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Delgado is himself a child of immigrants and a first-generation college-goer. Delgado came to Lehman in 2021 from the Midwest, where he often heard firsthand from Latinx students how much it meant to see him on campus.

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Laying the Foundation for Higher Education

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. It’s six to eight sessions spread out over the academic year in which topics like navigating college and getting an internship are explored.

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Honoring a Father's Diversity Legacy in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

Gerardo de los Santos noted that when his father was vice chancellor at the Maricopa Community College system, he made it a point that the schools had access to foundations and funders supportive of first-generation and low-income students, building pathways in higher education. “It

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Immigrant Doctoral Candidate Manifests Value of Representation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. students. “I I could never pay [back] the mentoring that faculty of color have given me as I have navigated higher education,” he said.

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Building Pipelines for a Better Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

In 2020, Jean moved to the office of the provost, where his work has focused primarily on limited income and first-generation students. A commitment to the work It’s that kind of commitment to equity issues that has inspired Jean, who has been at the university since 2011.

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Medical Schools Embrace Efforts Post-Affirmative Action Decision

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Acosta adds that, as a first generation Latinx himself, he wants to know that the patients from his home community will receive and look forward to better healthcare in the future. It’s more a time to make sure that your feet firmly stand on the ground, looking to the future, learning from what we’ve experienced in the past.”

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Bringing Greater Impact

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 25, 2022

As a first-generation college student, Canton didn’t know about doctorates or writing a dissertation, but a professor provided guidance. I started hanging out in the department, going to conferences in Washington, D.C., being exposed to the life of the mind. Finding my passion all started with changing my major.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

She said the institution is very proud of its social mobility ranking and its commitment to Pell recipients and first-generation college students. Non-alumni have been invited to join the board of trustees, broadening the university’s sphere of influence. Diversity and inclusivity are priorities for Fox.

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How dual enrollment can combat enrollment declines

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MAY 30, 2023

Blogs How dual enrollment can combat enrollment declines Innovative tips to build and sustain dual enrollment momentum This story was originally published in the League for Innovation’s Innovatus Magazine (March 2023). Since 2020, enrollment at community colleges has declined 5.4

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In a Post-Affirmative Action Landscape, Community Colleges Can Play an Outsized Role

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

About half of first-generation students are enrolled in two-year colleges. While just 7% of Black students enroll at selective institutions, more than one-third of Black undergraduate students attend community colleges, as well as more than half of Latino students.

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A Race to Find Diverse Candidates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Opening doors to young people, making education affordable for low and middle income or first-generation students, this is the common ground. Ericka Miller, president and CEO of Isaacson, Miller, a well-known search firm that helps higher education institutions connect with leadership candidates.

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Emphasizing 'Purpose' Among Leadership Facing Diversity Challenges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 29, 2023

Parham pointed out that 66% of CSUDH students are first-generation, 70% are Pell eligible, and 60% of the Pell cohort “have an expected family contribution of zero, meaning they are so economically challenged they don’t pay any tuition.”

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Anti-DEI and the Future of Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Diversity among those entering college includes, but is not limited to, veterans and active-duty service women and men, first-generation students, and adult learners. Approximately two million students begin post-secondary education each year. Additionally, the racial demographics of school age populations grow increasingly diverse.

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Building Pipelines for a Better Future

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