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Mapping Transfer Pathways: How Data and Equitable Admissions Policies can Support Transfer Student Success

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

By providing financial and social supports for students throughout the transfer process, four-year institutions can promote a transfer-receptive culture that welcomes and nurtures transfer studentssuccess. Journal of The First-Year Experience & Students in Transition , 22(1), 49–66(18). 2009, October).

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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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Athletics and Academics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The academy has partnered with the Stuyvesant High School Honors Society — Stuyvesant is a highly selective public high school — and other outlets to provide academic support and mentoring. John’s University, was the assistant director and then director of ACP from 2009 to 2014. years at St. Both graduated. “I

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The Transformational Power of Higher Education

The University Innovation Alliance

She noted that her former boss, UC Riverside's chancellor Kim Wilcox , is now her peer, adding: "He's a great friend and mentor, but all the way along, I haven't thought about having a boss. She elevated the role of UCSC's chief diversity officer and restructured the Office of Student Affairs and Success to align with her goals.

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The Art and Science of Higher Ed Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

For example, a colleague and mentor at the University of Georgia told me, ‘You're going to be the next head of psychology here.’ My dissertation was on life, work, and non-work satisfaction, so thinking about people's lives and wanting them to be successful at work has mattered to me for a long time. I hadn't thought about it.’

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Higher Ed Lessons in Interim Leadership

The University Innovation Alliance

Chancellor Reyes told us that his mandate was much different: "The president, as well as other mentors that knew that I was considering being the interim, they said, 'If you're going to do this, don't be the interim. Be the chancellor. Your institutions need you to be a chancellor that will continue to make decisions.'

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“A Million Miles Away” watch party with José Hernández

COE

Then, in 2009, we embarked on our journey into space, participating in the second-to-last mission to the International Space Station, effectively completing its construction.  In STS-128, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, we launched on August 28, 2009, embarking on a 14-day mission to the International Space Station.