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Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative

(2009-2012)

The Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative was designed to help Minority-Serving Institutions (MSIs)—Hispanic-Serving Institutions, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Predominantly Black Institutions, and Tribal Colleges and Universities—that are already deeply committed to the academic success of first-generation, minority students, build additional capacity to serve this key group of students. Through a competitive award process, 30 MSIs were awarded a $100,000 capacity-building grant to implement strategic practices and processes that help first-generation students of color achieve academic success. 

MSIs serve a disproportionate number of first-generation students, and therefore play an important role in ensuring their academic success. The Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative helped MSIs identify problems unique to their first-generation students and to assist in the development of faculty driven, classroom based strategies to foster increased student success. In addition to improving the success of their own first-generation students, best practices from participating institutions can help inform the first-generation student success practices at all MSIs and other institutions with significant first-generation student populations. 

A full list of 30 institutions participating in the Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative is available here.

For more information about this initiative, contact institute@ihep.org.

Publications

  • Supporting First-Generation College Students Through Classroom-Based Practices

Videos

  • Learning Communities—Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative

  • Developmental Education—Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative

  • Faculty Development—Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative

News

  • IHEP Details Minority Serving Institutions' Best Practices (Oct 17, 2014)
  • Minority-Serving Institutions Confirm Retaining and Graduating First-Generation Minority College Students Starts with Faculty Engagement (Sep 6, 2012)
  • Institute for Higher Education Policy and Walmart Foundation Select 2010 Walmart Minority Student Success Institutions (Mar 18, 2010)
  • Applications for the Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative Now Available (Sep 29, 2009)
  • Institute for Higher Education Policy and Wal-Mart Foundation Announce First Cohort of Wal-Mart Minority Student Success Institutions (May 4, 2009)
  • Wal-Mart Foundation Gives More than $4 Million to the Institute for Higher Education Policy (Oct 14, 2008)

Events

  • 2011 Summer Academy: Cultivating Student Access & Success: A Celebration of Success (Jul 24, 2011 to Jul 28, 2011)
  • 2010 Summer Academy: Cultivating Student Access & Success: Clearing Pathways for Underserved Students (Jul 19, 2010 to Jul 23, 2010)
  • 2009 Summer Academy: Cultivating Student Access & Success: Investing in First-Generation Student Achievement (Jul 19, 2009 to Jul 23, 2009)

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  • Access & Success
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  • Critical Communities & Institutions

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Walmart Foundation

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      • Film Series: Federal Student Aid History
      • Summer Academy
      • Community Partnership for Attainment
      • Symposium on Financial Literacy and College Success at Minority-Serving Institutions
      • Walmart Minority Student Success Initiative
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      • Redefining Access for the 21st-Century Student
      • Reimagining Aid Design and Delivery
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