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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Associate Level English for Academic Purposes Reading Area Community College (Reading, PA) The English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at Reading Area Community College (RACC) began in 2012 to strategically reduce credit requirements and accelerate student progression with the goal of boosting enrollment and success rates.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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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. The four-year graduation rate for students who entered in 2012 was 52.8%. Watford says.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ducommun Endowed Professor (Emerita) in the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University, was president in 2011-2012. Gloria Ladson-Billings Dr. Arnetha F. Ball, the Charles E. Dr. Joyce E. King, the Benjamin E. Mays Endowed Chair and Professor of Educational Policy Studies, led the association from 2014-2015.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

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Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. With this in mind, we (Hines and Fletcher) compiled the collection of readings by prominent scholars, as described herein. Dr. Erik M. Chapter 9: Harris, P.C.

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Young, Brilliant, and Ready: Preparing Black Males for Postsecondary Opportunities and Transitions

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Recommendations for Nurturing the Brilliance of Black Males Ensure that Black male voices are centered in conversations on academic and college support (Harper, 2012). Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., What questions unique and specific to their lived experiences do they have?

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

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They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. She was integral in launching Macaulay at John Jay in 2012, serving three years as the program director. “[Macaulay] graduation rates are double that of the rest of the system,” Byrne says. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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How Fly-Ins Impact Diversity in the Michigan Ross BBA Program

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I oversee our efforts, and I've been with Greenlight since we launched in 2012. So they do outreach, we have done mentorship sessions where students, the participants, can sign up and attend these programs or attend a mentor session to further ask questions maybe about the application process or what student life's like if they come to the.