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From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We CSUS has seen enrollment of full-time and part-time Latino students increase by 34% and 66%, respectively, from 2015 to 2023. This is a structural effort that we found innovative.

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Fast forward to 2023. In addition to his other responsibilities, Childs said he has taken on the role of mentor for five undergraduate students, a responsibility that he takes seriously, but also views as enjoyable. “I So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

will retire at the end of the 2023-24 school year. For more than three decades, he’s been a friend, a mentor and an inspiration to students and colleagues across the UNC System. North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T) Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr., Dr. Harold L. Joining N.C.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Active Minds is proud to announce the 2023 Emerging Scholars Fellowship cohort! This fellowship gives Black, Indigenous, and students of Color (BIPOC) students the opportunity to be mentored by national experts in the mental health field as they complete independent, funded research projects.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

English Writing DePauw University; MA, Ministry Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Butler University Career mentors: Prof. One of his most notable works is a 2023 book of poems, titled We Be Walkin Blackly in the Deep. Mitchell L. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof.

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JANUARY 20, 2025

English Writing DePauw University; MA, Ministry Wesley Seminary, Indiana Wesleyan University; MFA, Creative Writing (Poetry) Butler University Career mentors: Prof. One of his most notable works is a 2023 book of poems, titled We Be Walkin Blackly in the Deep. Mitchell L. Douglas, Indiana University - Indianapolis; Prof.

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APRIL 26, 2024

Robinson also has proven his skills as a student and as a community member, founding the Darius Robinson Helping Hands Foundation in the fall of 2023. Among his football honors, Robinson was named All-SEC and AP SEC First Team in 2023 and was twice recognized as SEC Defensive Lineman of the Week. Male Sports Scholar of the Year. “He

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JUNE 30, 2024

Fogarty, who retired in 2023. Littles, who has served as interim dean since February 2023, served as a senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs for nearly 20 years. I see teaching and mentoring as an essential part of being a physician,” said Littles. “New

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Among the 151 chosen for the 2023-2024 Class of Schwarzman Scholars were Spelman’s Naomi Aladekoba and Sophia Bax-Wooten. The two will be part of the program’s eighth cohort – they will be enrolled August 2023 – with participants from 36 countries and 121 universities.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Bureau of Labor Statistics projection that the majority of the fastest-growing occupations from 2023 to 2033 are in STEMthese promising careers often remain inaccessible to underrepresented groups. These initiatives not only enhance learning but also connect students with mentors and peers who share similar interests.

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JULY 5, 2023

Fast forward to 2023. In addition to his other responsibilities, Childs said he has taken on the role of mentor for five undergraduate students, a responsibility that he takes seriously, but also views as enjoyable. “I So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring. Childs is an award-winning Ph.D.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region. The fellows program will begin Fall 2023. These two initiatives will be housed in the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year the scholars in their respective Higher Education Administration/Student Affairs master’s programs will fully emerge in their academic programs along with professional development, mentoring, and a research study on graduate student identity and The Black Lives Matter movement.

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AUGUST 7, 2024

His expertise will not only contribute to groundbreaking research, but he will also mentor the next generation of scholars dedicated to equity and social justice in education.” Dr. Michael T. Nettles, previously held the Edmund W. Gordon Chair at ETS.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

educational leadership & policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Alberta M. Another is “Culturally Responsive Mentoring: a Psychosociocultural Perspective on Sustaining Students of Color Career Aspirations in STEM,” which she is co-authoring.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Levon Esters will become vice provost for graduate education at Penn State and dean of its Graduate School, effective May 1, 2023. He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship Program.

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JANUARY 2, 2023

Nicole Lynn Lewis Program participants will get resources and services, such as tuition assistance, crisis assistance, emergency funding, mentoring, mental health, and career support. Generation Hope will officially welcome its first class of scholars Summer 2023.

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MAY 31, 2023

The National Girls Collaborative Project’s 2023 “State of Girls and Women in STEM” report revealed much of the same. Another program, “WeWomen Afeka,” establishes a women-only mentoring chain. Women comprise 48% of the total workforce in the U.S.

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DECEMBER 3, 2022

We will begin piloting the initial stage of this concept at a South Florida area middle school during the Spring 2023 semester. The school has an existing science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (S.T.E.M.) magnet program where half of the students in the pilot will come from.

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JUNE 16, 2024

Florida’s Senate Bill 266 took effect on July 1, 2023, prohibiting specified educational institutions from expending funds for certain purposes. During the 2023 legislative session in Texas, more than 160 anti-LGBT bills were filed, seven of which passed. Some institutions even started shutdowns at the start of the academic year. “We

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MARCH 1, 2024

Oliver The center was established in 2023 with state funding as a "fact tank" for research on the nation's political life and a resource for underrepresented students seeking careers in government and public service. Oliver , who died while in office Aug. Oliver was a trailblazer whose legacy lives on in many ways,” said Murphy.

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APRIL 7, 2023

Such requirements include efforts such as mentoring and support programs; assessments of prior learning that gives academic credit to veterans for training and experience from military service; annual surveys of student veterans’ perspectives and needs; and special orientation programs.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

The collective bargaining agreement (CBA) could give a 10% raise to all regular, or tenure-eligible, part-time faculty starting Spring 2023. Per that agreement, GW part-time faculty may see their first contractual raise in four years and an increase in base salaries – from $4,467 to $5,000.

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APRIL 30, 2024

Per the advice of a mentor, he picked being travel coordinator over academic adviser at GSU to get a better understanding of budgets and money and to have more doors in the sports world open to him. White holds a B.A. in psychology from UNC Chapel Hill, an M.S. in athletic administration from GSU, and an MBA from Kennesaw State University.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Notably, Bowie State University is the only historically Black university to have received the grant in 2023, marking an historic achievement and presenting as a beacon of hope for inclusive and equitable education. This demonstrates the positive outcomes resulting from the support and mentoring provided by the project.

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APRIL 3, 2023

Based on her extensive years in university leadership, Montgomery suggested that younger people look for mentors in many places, of many kinds. There are many different types of mentors,” Montgomery said. “I Montgomery plans to step down from the role after 20 years as leader of Northwestern’s music programs. Her term ends Aug.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Accelerated Pathway Program, immersing himself in a rich environment filled with mentors and testimonials from current medical students and doctors. During the spring semester of 2023, he maintained a rigorous study schedule, dedicating 2 to 3 hours each night to MCAT preparation.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Bowen Cho Beitiks opened fellowship applications in January 2023 to early-career scholar-activists with project proposals related to disability studies or disability justice. Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress.

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JULY 6, 2023

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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JULY 17, 2024

The latest report on academic year 2022 and 2023 , conducted by the nonprofit academic community organization Ithaka S+R, hopes to shine a light on just how many students have been positively impacted by these best-practices, and how institutions outside the Collaborative can replicate them.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Long known for mentoring young women of color who aspire to careers in college sports, Barnes also consults with collegiate athletics programs on strategic planning, leadership training, and team building. Barnes previously served the GCAC on a part-time basis while working as athletic director of Dillard University.

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MARCH 2, 2023

In addition to research, Corbett is a committed mentor and advocate for STEM education. She is the recipient of several prestigious awards, including the Benjamin Franklin Next Gen Award and the Salzman Memorial Award in Virology.

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MAY 29, 2024

Her book, The Golden Gate , released in September 2023, is both historical fiction and a mystery, a blend of Chua’s varied interests. In 2023, Chua received the Lux et Veritas Faculty Prize by the Buckley Institute, which acknowledges Yale faculty members who cultivate intellectual diversity both in and outside the class.

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JULY 5, 2023

Government/Political Science, Bowie State University; MPA, Management and Public Policy, Bowie State University; Graduate Certificate, Project Management, Bowie State University Mentors: Rev. It was mentors and elders in the church that encouraged me to pursue higher education in the first place. Dr. Lewis M. Zion Church; Rev.

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JULY 5, 2023

He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. I could never pay [back] the mentoring that faculty of color have given me as I have navigated higher education,” he said. Carlos Galan Institution:  University of California, Riverside Graduate Program:   Ph.D.,

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith was recently named guest editor for the summer 2023 issue of New Directions for Community Colleges, which will focus on urban community colleges. Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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JANUARY 12, 2023

applied behavior analysis, Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences, Endicott College; and postdoctoral fellow, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Career mentors: Dr. Caio Miguel, California State University, Sacramento, and Dr. Michael F. psychology, California State University, Sacramento; M.A.,

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