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Kehinde Sogbesan

Published: November 4, 2022 | 4:31 pm | Posted in: Student Stars

With a passion for research and advocacy, first-generation college student Kehinde Sogbesan chose to attend Florida State University to pursue work that would ensure privacy, promote sexual health and lead to faster intervention for college students, disenfranchised communities, LGBTQ+ and other underrepresented populations. Sogbesan always dreamed of going to college, but he and his parents […]

The Big Story: October 24, 2022

Published: October 26, 2022 | 10:37 am | Posted in: The Big Story

Florida State University’s Center for Academic Retention & Enhancement, or CARE, has been awarded $1.4 million from the U.S. Department of Education to broaden a program that helps prepare high school students for college. CARE received the funding to start a new Upward Bound program in Suwannee and Hamilton counties, with a focus on math and science. Read more …

FSU holds week of events for First-Generation College Celebration

Published: November 3, 2021 | 1:51 pm | Posted in: Students & Campus Life

Arnez Wallac, assistant director for Transition & Engagement in the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement and CARE Ambassadors, many of which are first-gen students that help incoming first-gen students transition into FSU through the CARE summer bridge program.

Florida State University will celebrate the achievements of first-generation students with a week of events beginning Monday, Nov. 8, held in conjunction with the nationwide First-Generation College Celebration. “We hope First-Gen week will be a time to celebrate the accomplishments of all first-generation students at Florida State University and bring awareness to the greater campus community about what it means to be a first-generation college […]

FSU Foundation receives $100,000 grant from Truist to expand programming for first-generation students

Published: October 27, 2021 | 2:19 pm | Posted in: University News

The funds of this grant will support FSU’s new Living Learning Community for First-Generation students as well as expand Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement (CARE) programming that builds community and equips students with tools to succeed.

The Florida State University Foundation has received a $100,000 grant from Truist Financial Corporation through its Truist Charitable Fund, a donor-advised fund at The Winston-Salem Foundation, to expand programming and improve retention and graduation rates for first-generation students and those disadvantaged by economic circumstances. The grant will be used to aid first-generation students, students with […]

FSU Alumni Association announces fully endowed First-Generation CARE Scholarship

Published: October 19, 2021 | 1:14 pm | Posted in: University News

Former Chair Dan Berger and the FSU Alumni Association Board of Directors.

Florida State University · New Scholarship receives endowment The Florida State University Alumni Association announced Tuesday full endowment of the First-Generation CARE Scholarship, which supports first-generation students in the Center for Academic Retention and Enhancement. The First-Generation CARE Scholarship will aid FSU students who are the first in their family to attend college and who […]

Leading the way to student success: How FSU’s data-driven approach is turning heads across the nation

Published: February 20, 2019 | 1:16 pm | Posted in: University News

Florida State has eliminated disparities in graduation and retention rates among its diverse undergraduate population, which includes nearly a third who are Pell Grant recipients and first-generation college students.

More Florida State University students than ever are graduating in four years, but the university’s upward trajectory in student success hasn’t happened overnight. As a result of careful and strategic investments over the past two decades, Florida State’s four-year graduation rate is No. 1 in the state of Florida and one of the best in the nation. Of the freshmen who entered the […]

CARE students take bridge to a bright future

Published: June 30, 2017 | 12:20 pm | Posted in: University News

FSU CARE students excited for the summer semester. (Photo by Candida Pouchie)

Florida State University freshman Daneilia Sparks moved into her new home in Dorman Hall with a huge smile on her face and big hopes for the next four years as a Seminole. Sparks is one of 416 students who arrived on campus June 17 after receiving a highly sought-after spot in FSU’s Center for Academic […]

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