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MARCH 28, 2025

Latino students are making pragmatic financial choices to pay for their education, and institutions are increasingly responding with tailored support, according to a comprehensive new report released today by Excelencia in Education. Santiago, CEO, and Sarita E.

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Mott Community College (MCC) has received $156,000 to implement an initiative aimed at better supporting immigrant, refugee, and first-generation students, The County Press reported. Mott Community College MCC’s initiative is called Pathways to Success: Empowering Immigrant Futures (EIF).

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

A new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center (NSCRC) n otes that 61.1% 5 percentage point increase is the first increase in the six-year completion rate in several years. The improvements here were mostly driven by students who started at community colleges. “The whereas Lehman’s is 51.6%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 28, 2024

The issues closest to my heart—those that affect our students and education equity—are being largely ignored by the presidential candidates. Additionally, messages from our highest public servants are guiding students to forgo college, undermining education as a viable pathway to socioeconomic mobility.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

What does student success mean? Some colleges associate student success with high graduation rates, others focus on alumni achievements, and then other colleges emphasize test scores and grades. So, these students are often unnoticed and left behind as well. Dr. Merrill L. These barriers often go unnoticed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 29, 2024

How much do grades really tell us about students? The analysis, conducted by The Equitable Grading Project, found that six out of 10 middle and high school grades do not accurately reflect student performance. Ostensibly, they should tell us what students have learned—and tell educators where they need to focus.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2025

"Her permanent appointment as Provost comes at a time when her clarity, compassion, and vision are more vital than ever to our continued growth and success." Lavariega Monforti has authored over 50 scholarly publications and secured more than $10 million in grant funding to support student achievement and faculty research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 2, 2024

“I very much think it has been invigorating for me over the years to see the data-driven decisions that lead us to doing things with our students that are amazing,” she says. Having served as vice president for student affairs at Cal State, Fullerton, from 2012–19, Eanes was familiar with the Cal State system.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Cruzado, who will assume the role on July 1, brings a deeply personal connection to the land-grant university mission, having begun her higher education journey as a first-generation college student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez.

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MAY 15, 2025

I look forward to working with the Board, faculty, staff, students, alumni, and the Rock Hill community to expand access and research, elevate student success, and position Clinton College as a bold, faith-driven institution for the future." "Clinton holds a sacred legacy grounded in faith, resilience, and opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. 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. Santiago and Sarita E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

A new study reveals alarming trends among college students nationwide, with seven in ten considering taking a break or dropping out entirely due to mounting pressures. The survey, conducted by higher education virtual health provider TimelyCare, highlights the significant challenges threatening student success across American campuses.

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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. During that time, she saw his hands-on approach with staff and students. “If Coming from such a background drives him. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, CCA is a bold national advocate for dramatically increasing college completion rates and closing equity gaps by working with states, systems, institutions, and partners to scale highly effective structural reforms and promote policies that improve student success.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Across the country, community colleges and universities are seeing fewer students enroll, a trend that could have long-term consequences for both individuals and the economy. A shrinking student population means fewer trained workers entering key industries, bringing about economic decline as the demographic cliff continues to grow.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

Students from underrepresented backgrounds face considerable barriers when it comes to completing a community college program. Nationally, only 24% of African American, Latinx, and Native American students finish within two years. DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017.

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APRIL 1, 2025

The announcement comes at a pivotal moment for the Durango, Colorado, college, which continues to grapple with its history as a former federal Indian boarding school while working to advance its commitment to student success, equity, and community engagement.

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MARCH 26, 2024

Legislators are looking to enshrine the Postsecondary Student Success Grant (PSSG) program, a student outcomes-centered federal effort, into law through new legislation this March. Although the effort has received support generally, some higher ed scholars and advocates have levied some criticisms and concerns about it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2024

In San Luiz, Arizona, along the border of the state and Sonora, Mexico, there is Gadsden Elementary School District #32, where more than 99% of its more than 5,000 students identified as Hispanic in 2020. Within that school district lies Southwest Junior High (SJH), a school comprising mostly Latinx (96%) students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2024

While some individual campuses have emerged as success stories around college completion, growth in the nation’s college completion rate has stalled at 62.2%, according to a new report from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Four- and eight-week courses and shorter terms can accelerate student learning.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Over half a million – 579,000 to be exact – Black students have left the American higher education system since 2011. Before and during COVID, most of these students vanished from our most affordable and accessible institutions – our community colleges. All employees see themselves as student success advocates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 3, 2025

This Fall, three additional programs, one in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning, and two in Business Administrationwith tracks in accounting and managementwill welcome students. In only its second semester, nearly 100 students are enrolled in upper division courses this Spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Over half of Asian students and nearly 40% of white students earn a college degree within eight years of high school graduation, while less than 20% of low-income, Black, or Latinx students reach the same milestone. For adult learners, who make up a significant portion of the student population, the challenges are distinct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Williams was raised Catholic and attended private institutions—he was often the only Black student in his class, or one of the few. He became what he calls “a student for everybody.” “I His first ambition after college was to make money, and he entered the corporate world and earned his MBA from Fontbonne University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Nicholas Bowman The presence of underrepresented racial minority (URM) and first-generation college students in a course is related to higher STEM grades for all students in the class, especially for the minority students themselves, according to a recent study published in AERA Open.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

Two new reports from The California Alliance for Student Parent Success (The Alliance) detail the challenges that student parents face at California institutions. Approximately 300,000 undergraduate student parents are currently enrolled at institutions of higher education in the state of California.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab To help mitigate this, Believe in Students developed The #RealCollege Curriculum masterclass, a four-course curriculum sponsored by the ECMC Foundation, Gates Foundation, Imaginable Futures, and Michelson 20MM. In 2025, three additional courses, including one focused on supporting parenting students, will be added.

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MARCH 12, 2025

million students. My success has been shaped by failures, triumphs, and uplifting others along the way. Over the course of my education and career, Ive carried life baggage and self-doubt, made mistakes, and experienced obstacles that impacted my success. I later earned my General Education Diploma (G.E.D.)

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JULY 11, 2024

million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. The funding will allow for the hiring of four new student support advocates, who will offer dedicated attention and guidance to these students as they pursue their degrees. Dr. Susan P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Courtney Adkins The beginning of the fall academic term brings to mind images of freshly graduated high school students arriving on college campuses across the country. When the fall 2023 term begins, close to 20% of community college students will also be high school students who are dually enrolled.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Its “The Impact of Digital Learning on Minoritized and Poverty-Affected College Students: 12 Instructors’ Stories ” report explains how digital learning tools can transform education for vulnerable student populations — students who identify as Black, Latino, and Indigenous; poverty-affected students; and first-generation students.

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JUNE 26, 2024

Dr. Carrie Besnette Hauser “It’s a lesson for our students: surround yourself with good mentors who remember you uttering something to the universe, and be careful what you wish for, it could happen” says Hauser. We’re often rural, and if we don’t offer the programs students have to leave or — more often — they bypass the degree.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Seventy-one percent of its students are first-generation college students and more than half are Pell eligible. The ability to shape a campus culture of excellence with comprehensive student support was always very appealing to me,” says Rios-Ellis, a bilingual and bicultural educational and community health leader.

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