cover image: Building a better bachelor’s - Four-year colleges are finding new ways to help students succeed

Building a better bachelor’s - Four-year colleges are finding new ways to help students succeed

26 Jul 2024

The university’s Jacks on Track program breaks down the barriers to re-enrollment for students like Cassandra Brown, 33, who stopped out years ago to raise a family, and Jason Watchman, 39, a biology major and member of the Navajo Tribe whose earlier studies were interrupted by an Army stint, the birth of a son, and COVID-19. [...] “And and “the other;” imperialism, colonialism, and diaspora; then you come back and you are just interacting with and the ethics of travel—through the study of different the world in a completely different way,” said Vande- regions and countries. [...] 1 6 L U M I N A F O U N D A T I O N F O C U S I F A L L 2 0 2 4 Better Bachelor’s 1 7 L U M I N A F O U N D A T I O N F O C U S I F A L L 2 0 2 4 Better Bachelor’s When Chance gave birth to a son at age 20, she option, she says, is the only way she can manage her decided to improve her financial prospects, enrolling at academic work with her job duties and the responsibilities her local community. [...] a designated Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI), for To boost opportunity for these disadvantaged students, “getting” her and her culture and for making it possible for NAU is engaged in a six-year pilot that sets the GPA her to attend college in the first place. [...] In 2007 he The son of a single mother and a member of the Navajo joined the Army and spent 15 months in a combat Nation, Watchman moved frequently as a child and brigade in Afghanistan before being medically discharged.

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United States of America

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