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Strategic Enrollment Management and Student Success

First-Gen and AAPI Student Success Faculty Learning Community

This faculty learning community (FLC) is designed for both tenure track and term faculty to come together to discuss opportunities, strategies, and techniques for addressing first-generation and Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) inclusiveness in their courses and programs.  With an awareness and understanding of the issues and challenges that first-generation and AAPI students often experience, and the unique strengths that they bring to these situations, the FLC explores ways faculty can develop awareness about and generate strategies to support first-generation and AAPI students through their scholarship, teaching, and/or service activities.

If you’re interested in joining the First-generation and AAPI Student Success Faculty Learning Community, email Elizabeth Bambacus (bambacuses@vcu.edu).

List of programs that have completed the Ambassador training:
  • Department of Political Science
  • Department of Kinesiology and Health Sciences
  • Spring 2023 First-Gen and AAPI Student Success Faculty Learning Community
  • 2023 Summer Faculty Institute for First-Gen and AAPI Student Success
  • VCU Library Staff
  • VCU Athletics
  • Fall 2023 First-Gen and AAPI Student Success Learning Community for Faculty and Staff