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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. Morales, president of CSUSB. years, compared to the collegewide average of 5.2 They’re on a journey.

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College Students Are Hungry to Learn Everywhere

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If you read the national news about higher education, you might think everyone is angling for admission to the Ivy League or trying to pay off debt for degrees earned. But finally, in spring 2020, the federal government asked undergraduates if they had enough to eat or a safe place to sleep.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These two-year and four-year institutions must also enroll a significant number of students who require needs-based financial aid. Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morehouse is the most recent addition to the program, which has included Howard University since 2020 and Spelman College since 2022. Although 90% of the high schoolers in the Ed Equity Lab’s program are students of color, roughly half of them had been unaware of HBCUs, according to a recent survey. The Lab is looking to change that.

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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.

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CUNY Program for High School Seniors Boosts College Enrollment

Confessions of a Community College Dean

All public high school seniors in the state became eligible in 2020 in response to the pandemic. The program connects seniors with trained college student mentors who help them with enrollment, financial aid paperwork and course registration, among other tasks.

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Practical Pedagogy Tips for Educators at Minority-Serving Institutions

The Scholarly Teacher

Learning to file for financial aid, apply to internal scholarships, or declare a major are opaque bureaucratic processes. Ostorga, Zúñiga, & Hinton, 2020), yet less research discusses parallel. For these students, university life is potentially shocking. Office hours” are an unfamiliar term. institutions? identities (e.g.,

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