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Cruzado Wins 2024 Council of Fellows Mentor Award

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Waded Cruzado has been named winner of the American Council on Education’s 2024 ACE Council of Fellows/Fidelity Investments Mentor Award. It has been my pleasure to mentor these fellows,” she said. Cruzado, who has served as president of Montana State since 2010, has a storied career in higher education leadership.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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San Francisco State University From 2010 to 2022, Latinx-identifying undergraduate enrollment at San Francisco State University (SFSU) increased from 19% to 39%. In Fall 2022, our first faculty mentor pairings were made,” says Ben Telesca, vice president for student affairs, SRSU.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

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workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. increase in undergrad engineering enrollment rates from 2010 (9.1%) to 2021 (15.8%). One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S.

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Report Provides Frank Data on Black PhD Holders in STEM Fields

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of people who earned these doctoral degrees from 2010–20 were Black Americans. Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Espinosa said this exposes students at MSIs to research opportunities and mentoring.

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

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But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. As an undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, she worked with fellow classmates and friends to mentor middle school and high school students throughout Texas. I'm a first-generation student.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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This marks an increase of more than 15,000 Asian people in the county since 2010. Mentorship Part of the grant’s funds will be used to replicate a peer mentoring program that already exists on UConn’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program.

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Generation Hope to Reach 3 Million Parenting Students by 2029

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When Nicole Lynn Lewis founded Generation Hope in 2010, she realized that her organization could be the first place that parenting students are ever told “Yes.” “The The families we serve go out into the world, in educational and community settings, where the answer is often, ‘No.’

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