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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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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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Scholar-Activist Elevates the Histories, Identities of Queer Latinx

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“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.” As a community leader, Gonzalez is on the national board of The Association for Jotería Arts, Activism, and Scholarship. “He

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Lieberman Expected to Lead La Verne to Next Stage

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The second big challenge was we knew that if we were going to provide the scholarships that the students needed…we had to raise money for scholarships for our students,” Lieberman said. Most of the students are middle- and low-income and first-generation. That’s now running and stronger than ever.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

GBC has an endowed scholarship fund from the Goizueta Foundation, and utilizing this fund, GBC began pursuing Hispanic students in the region. 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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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. 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.

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A Black Scholar’s Journey in Shaping Study Abroad Programs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. Dabney says that perception still rings true among students.