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 million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students.

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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

APRIL 16, 2024

In 2018, he wanted to get more involved with student programming, so he joined the college’s LGBTQ+ History Month committee. This eventually led to applying for and receiving a grant to develop programming for LGBTQ+ students at Guttman. With many faculty and staff remaining closeted, there is also a lack of role models or mentors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Approximately 49% are Pell Grant eligible or have first-generation, low-income backgrounds. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We Additionally, 39.93% of graduate students are Latino.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

The business school also received a Missouri Career Attainment Network grant to provide minority students comprehensive information about career pathways. 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.

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Scholarship America

JULY 14, 2023

The National College Attainment Network (NCAN) released a landmark study in 2018 seeking to answer a simple question: can low-income students afford college? Seven in 10 graduates with federal loan debt also received a Pell grant, and Pell graduates have about $4,500 more in debt than higher-income students when they finish their degrees.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

They mentor and supervise UIA Fellows, convene student success teams, and ensure organizational accountability for their presidents and chancellors. • The UIA Liaisons are the driving force behind our day-to-day efforts. They're embedded in our institutions to offer strategic guidance, collaboration, insight, and on-the-ground leadership.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

Bringing Federal-Level Higher Ed Experience Back to the Community President Sacks’ shared how federal-level experience gave her a different perspective as a college president: “I understand federal grants better than many of my colleagues. And that got us the grant. Department of Education from December 2018 to January 2021.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

They mentor and supervise UIA Fellows, convene student success teams, and ensure organizational accountability for their presidents and chancellors. • The UIA Liaisons are the driving force behind our day-to-day efforts. They're embedded in our institutions to offer strategic guidance, collaboration, insight, and on-the-ground leadership.

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