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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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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 maintains a common database of information about colleges to enable it to be used as to conduct a valid comparison by prospective students. 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 maintains a common database of information about colleges to enable it to be used as to conduct a valid comparison by prospective students. Not to mention the high cost of losing credits in unplanned transfers. Colleges fail.