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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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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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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

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In 2010, the Newark native became the first African American woman to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and only the second in our nation's history to lead a state legislative house. Oliver was a trailblazer whose legacy lives on in many ways,” said Murphy.

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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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Fostering Success

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We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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