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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. for students who entered in 2017. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering.

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Dougherty Family College’s Investment in Student Success Pays Off

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DFC has graduated an average of 56% of its students since its formation in 2017. Each cohort is assigned to a mentor, who meets with the full group once a month, as well as each member individually. “We Del Valle López reported talking to his mentors extensively, about everything from academics to personal struggles.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

King was followed in 2016-2017 by Dr. Vivian L. Banks, who taught and mentored Howard while he was a graduate student at the University of Washington was tickled when he realized that Milner, Howard’s predecessor as AERA president, was taught and mentored by Howard when he was a doctoral student at The Ohio State University.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Fox acknowledges going coed, which happened in 2017, was not an easy process. The central value of transmitting women’s heritage and issues in the curriculum and the way Mary Baldwin’s history is celebrated are maintained. Some of the didactic and professional curriculum were flipped. There is a dean of the College for Women.”

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Lessons for Higher Ed Leaders of Color

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She is a 2017 Cohort Fellow for the Thomas Lakin Institute for Mentored Leadership and was featured in the December 2017 issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Dr. Willis began her educational career in 2007 teaching at Florida A&M University before transitioning to Tallahassee Community College. She earned a Ph.D.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. Launched as a pilot program in 2017, Byrne is working to find funding to scale the program to a more substantial size. “[Macaulay] graduation rates are double that of the rest of the system,” Byrne says.

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Dr. J. Luke Wood to Become President of Sacramento State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.