"Travel the two-way street of civility: Demonstrate and practice the level of civility that you desire from your students."

From The Toolbox: A Teaching and Learning Resource for Instructors

National Resource Center for First-Year Experience and Students in Transition    

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Education reinforces social stratification; achievement gap based on income widens:

"Instead of serving as a springboard to social mobility as it did for the first decades after World War II, college education today is reinforcing class stratification, with a huge majority of the 24 percent of Americans aged 25 to 29 currently holding a bachelor’s degree coming from families with earnings above the median income."

from New York Times, Opinion Pages

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"In a troublingly stagnant portrait, the latest national survey of college presidents finds a profession dominated by white men who have hardly changed in more than a quarter century. They're just older.

...The survey, released at the association's annual meeting, indicates that racial and ethnic minorities, who represent 13 percent of college presidents, are slightly less prevalent than they were in 2006, when 14 percent of college leaders were members of minority groups.

This report, which is the seventh produced by the association in 26 years, marks the first time in the survey's history that a reduction in the percentage of minority presidents has been reported. At the time of the first survey, in 1986, minorities constituted 8 percent of college presidents."

From The Chronicle of Higher Education

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"...at a time when budget space is at a premium, many colleges and universities do not have campus programs to help first generation students matriculate. This could be problematic for student recruitment and retention at the nation’s college and universities."

From Inside Higher Ed

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An opportunity for building connections among first generation college students who have moved into student affairs positions:

"Something interesting is happening. There are more first generation students working and studying in student affairs than people think. We are interested in collecting and sharing stories about people’s experiences as first generation students working and studying in student affairs. We are especially interested in why people chose to go into student affairs. This blog is a place to find connections, inspire others, and be inspired. Every Gen is welcome to contribute here."

Project 1st Gen in Student Affairs

The data analysis and research workgroup of the Project Compass team at Eastern Connecticut State University presented on combining quantitative and qualitative methods to  create models for predicting student persistence at the 2010 annual conference of the Northeastern Educational Research Association. The proceedings are now available for download at http://digitalcommons.uconn.edu/nera_2010/30

Abstract:

Edited by Moira A. Fallon, SUNY College at Brockport, and Susan C. Brown.

Fallon and Brown provide valuable strategies and practical techniques for instructors to develop inclusive college classrooms that promote the learning of all students.

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A new report by the American Council on Education charts declines in the academic achievement of blacks and Hispanics.

A new analysis correlates schools' student loan repayment rates with the demographics of their student bodies, in an effort to show which institutions graduate more minority students who launch successful careers and repay their student loans.