Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Our comprehensive strategy emphasizes culturally relevant curriculum, robust community connections and clear pathways to success—crucial for nurturing a sense of belonging and enhancing academic persistence. Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Organizations rooted in sports incorporate educational curriculum that helps participants be better prepared for higher education. Middle schoolers receive STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts and math) curriculum and high school application guidance. “We I always tell people you have to learn how to work hard.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

We also have a lot of supports built into our curriculum,” she says. We place people anywhere from UBS (financial services) to someone who decided to take a risk and start a business through our Center for Entrepreneurship where they were mentored,” he says. In 2018, Larry and Beth Gies gave $150 million.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

In her professional life, President Sacks collects mentors whose leadership skills or strengths have impressed her and whom she can always count on for advice. Department of Education from December 2018 to January 2021. That was formative.” Sacks served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Sacks holds a Ph.D.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Leaders need to recognize that faculty are the key drivers of change inside the classroom and in the curriculum. Moving into higher education, I had a supervisor and mentor, Mary Hendrix , Vice President of Student Access and Success at Texas A&M University Commerce. That's where the ideas and the connection to the market are.

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