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Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2020, our first-generation retention rate has increased by 7.2% For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships. Our Fall 2022 first-gen, first-year retention rate (81.5%) outpaced their non-first-gen peers (78.6%).

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$38 Million Grant to Support Native College Students

Insight Into Diversity

Known as “Culture at the Heart: An Indigenous Approach to Enrollment and Retention,” the programming funded by the grant seeks to increase enrollment, retention, and graduation rates of Indigenous students at 25 TCUs nationwide.

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Dancing Beyond Pride Sustaining LGBTQIA+ Visibility Year-Round

Insight Into Diversity

This might look like campus climate studies, training workshops, and guest speakers who provide insight into the unique challenges faced by LGBTQIA+ individuals that both inform and encourage allies and advocates. Recruitment and Retention Hiring and retaining openly LGBTQIA+ faculty and staff in all levels of leadership is necessary.

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NAACP Launches ‘Diversity No Matter What’ Pledge

Insight Into Diversity

Regardless, the NAACP will continue to advocate, litigate, and mobilize to ensure that every Black American has access to the resources and opportunities they need to thrive.” Holding up the matriculation and retention of low-income and first-generation students through programs, scholarships, mentoring, and academic support.

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Retaining Students at Minority Serving Institutions

Today's Learner

Retention has always been a buzzword in higher education, even before the pandemic. But for Minority Serving Institutions , retention means more than keeping students on the registration roster – it’s also a primary pathway to achieving educational equity. Cultural Capital and Student Retention. Career preparation.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Welcome Tricia Serio, our next UW Provost and Executive VP

UW Presidential Blog

Her research focuses on the cellular regulation of self-perpetuating protein conformations in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and her scholarship has advanced our understanding of severe neurodegenerative diseases in mammals and how to reverse them.

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