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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since the mid-1970s, the Latino college student population has increased fivefold, with one out of every five college students being Latino by 2017. To support this latter group, for instance, UTSA launched Brothers United , a mentoring student organization centered on Black and Latino men.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. A number of them mentor budding scientists of color at a time when the scientific sphere remains overwhelmingly white and male. of the population.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. King was followed in 2016-2017 by Dr. Vivian L. Dr. Joyce E.

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Spotlighting Rural Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

educational research and policy analysis (higher education), North Carolina State University Career mentors: Dr. Audrey “AJ” Jaeger, North Carolina State University; Dr. Jori Hall, University of Georgia; Dr. Tony Cawthon, Clemson University; Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

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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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. for students who entered in 2017. Such support has grown over the last three decades.

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

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v To ensure stakeholders can answer important, equity-minded questions, policymakers should establish a student-level data network that connects data to illuminate student pathways and outcomes , especially for transfer students. 2017, updated 2021). 2017, August). The Institute for Higher Education Policy. ii Shapiro, D.,