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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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Collaboration vs. Competition in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

Elevating Institutional Collaboration Dr. Gibson acknowledged that competition for limited resources is all too common within university systems: “Departments and entire institutions are being very, very guarded in the area they're serving. As a leader, you won’t always be the one saying, ‘I've got the best idea, let's do this.’

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Collaboration vs. Competition in Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

Elevating Institutional Collaboration Dr. Gibson acknowledged that competition for limited resources is all too common within university systems: “Departments and entire institutions are being very, very guarded in the area they're serving. As a leader, you won’t always be the one saying, ‘I've got the best idea, let's do this.’

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She spoke about how she went from avoiding to embracing administrative leadership, the pandemic's lessons about collaboration and community, and her view of what it will take to reenergize higher ed. How do you keep collaboration going when not everybody is in-person? We learned those lessons because we had to.

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Leadership at All Levels of Higher Ed

The University Innovation Alliance

“When I came back to West Virginia, I wrote a Strengthening Community Colleges project in collaboration with colleagues in Parkersburg. Sometimes that collaborative approach will be more successful.” Prior to these positions, she was Assistant Provost at Colorado Community College System from January 2009 to December 2016.

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The Financial Impact of College Closures

College Planners of America

A student could spend their precious college years losing friends, mentors, coaches, and campus jobs. CDS is a collaborative project involving colleges and the publications that report on them such as Peterson’s, the Thomson Corporation , U.S. Not to mention the high cost of losing credits in unplanned transfers. Colleges fail.

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The Financial Impact of College Closures

College Planners of America

A student could spend their precious college years losing friends, mentors, coaches, and campus jobs. CDS is a collaborative project involving colleges and the publications that report on them such as Peterson’s, the Thomson Corporation , U.S. Not to mention the high cost of losing credits in unplanned transfers. Colleges fail.