Equity Group
An Equity Group is a group of students from an underrepresented community disproportionately affected by barriers to student success. The United States Department of Education intends to undertake a comprehensive approach to address these inequities and effect change, including by committing to investing in under-resourced institutions, supporting institutions to raise completion rates for underserved students, and building a new vision of college excellence that makes inclusivity prestigious.
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- First Generation (CO)
- Gender
- Pell Recipient
- Underrepresented Minority
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ASIR Tableau Server Dashboards:
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"Promoting student success and achieving equity requires that we identify and address the underlying, systemic barriers—those policies and practices that have been the drivers of inequitable outcomes. Students of color, low-income students, and other underrepresented students are more likely to attend institutions that are diverse and accessible, but lack the funding and resources needed to ensure students’ success. The barriers to student success at under-resourced institutions—inadequate aid to persist and too little academic and other supports—disproportionately affect underrepresented student groups"[1]