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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The benefit for me is that I had really great mentors who just really encouraged me and provided me with opportunities to explore. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says.

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From Small-Town Roots to National Honor: SC Native Receives State's Highest Award

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

since 2018. Dr. Moores influence extends far beyond his own accomplishment, said Jackson, who has known Moore since their days as graduate students and have collaborated with him on a number of initiatives and projects, including the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education. Dr. Jerlando F.L.

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Student Success in STEM

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In 2018, according to the Pew Research Center, Black students earned just 7% of STEM bachelors degrees, compared to their 10% share of all bachelors degrees and 12% representation in the adult population. Strengthening K-12 Partnerships Collaborating with K-12 schools enhances the pipeline of underrepresented students into STEM.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Dr. Lynn Mahoney “We have been tracking the effectiveness of numerous programs, including peer mentoring and learning communities as well as student progress to graduation,” says SFSU president Dr. Lynn Mahoney.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.”

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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It began as a pilot program in 2015 and started in earnest in 2018 with 25 students after receiving a $1.68 There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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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. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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