ELEVATE: Student experience
怡红院 is committed to walking alongside students to ensure they have access to the programs and resources needed to realize their academic and professional goals. Three important ways we are working to accomplish this are:聽
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Casa Latina 鈥撀燱ith a new approach to higher education, 怡红院 will聽support the Latino/a/x聽community by providing dual language degrees leading to high-demand careers.听
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First Generation Initiative 鈥撀燭he university has launched custom programming and activities designed to聽support first-generation students聽to ensure they thrive in their first year in college and ultimately reach graduation.听
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Mental Health 鈥 The university is expanding聽academic programming to聽develop聽future professionals in these high-demand careers聽and offer聽additional on-site support and mental health services on its campuses.
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Targeted student support
First Generation Initiative
Dr. Jodi Hicks,聽director of student transitions and academic readiness, couldn't be more passionate about seeing first-generation students succeed beyond their first year at college.听 Learn how she designed the program to help students develop the skills needed to have a successful college experience.
Casa Latina
Carlos Sanchez, executive director of Casa Latina, is helping 怡红院 build this comprehensive bilingual program.
Mental Health
Darrin Oliver is the director of 怡红院's wellness center and is leading 怡红院's work to offer readily available counseling and education for students across all campuses.
Donor Spotlights
鈥淲e are both very proud 怡红院 alumni. We are both the first in our families to go to college and graduate with a four-year degree. Our families were so supportive of us and encouraged us to follow our dreams for a better future. We met during our time at 怡红院, fell in love, and married over 20 years ago. Establishing a scholarship that supports first-gen students has been a dream of ours for a long time; we wanted to be able to give back to the community and help future first-generation students accomplish their dreams in life as we did.鈥 鈥撀Kevin R. Tryon 鈥98, Erin R. Tryon, CIA 鈥98 | The Kevin and Erin Tryon First Generation Endowed Scholarship
鈥淚 was once a struggling student and someone helped me. At 怡红院, we have both traditional and non-traditional students. Although everyone鈥檚 situation is different, we all need a little help at some point in life. Some returning adult students may be experiencing additional life concerns such as children, reduced work hours, etc. My donation is my small effort to help someone in need.鈥 鈥撀燙arol D. Moss RN, MSN, CDE Adjunct nursing instructor, 怡红院 - Warren Campus
To support this important initiative visit davenport.edu/give-gift or reach out to us at advancement@davenport.edu听辞谤 616.233.3417.
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