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Rochester Review
March–April 2014
Vol. 76, No. 4

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Center of SuccessThe University earns high marks for initiatives to support students traditionally overlooked in higher education.By Robin L. Flanigan
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While issues of access to higher education—particularly for low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students—have recently gained traction in the nation’s political conversation, Beth Olivares and the staff of the David T. Kearns Center for Leadership and Diversity in Arts, Sciences & Engineering have quietly built a national model for supporting students who not too long ago would have been overlooked by most selective universities. More . . .

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