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Engineering a Path for the Forgotten: Meet the Professor Transforming Transportation Access - Dr. Kyung "Kate" Hyun

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. She asks questions about who has access to transit in certain areas, what roads flood more often and create dangerous situations.

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Maryland Teachers Receive Tuition-Free National Board Certification

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The partnership will also ensure students have access to rigorous and meaningful curricula, college and career pathways as they work on their certification.

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Disabilities Access is About Holding Space

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Margaret Price The sentiment — addressing the dearth of disability accommodations in higher education that she and others have experienced — appears in her new book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024). “We Price’s challenges to access did not end at obtaining coverage.

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Southern University Launches Academy to Diversify K-12 Leadership Pipeline

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Dr. Charles Foust, former superintendent of New Hanover Schools in North Carolina, will also serve as a mentor. It offers a pathway to leadership positions that have historically been difficult to access. Sito Narcisse, former East Baton Rouge Parish School System superintendent and managing partner of SJ Apple Consulting Group.

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An Equity and Access Champion

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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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Working to Keep Minoritized Students Safe - Dr. Kaleb Briscoe

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Educational Leadership and Higher Education, University of NebraskaLincoln Career mentors: Dr. Brian McGowan, American University; Dr. Kimberly A. Her mentors at ASU, Briscoe says, truly encouraged her to understand the significance of education and valuing Black thought. Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Incoming transfer students can enroll in courses early to guarantee that they have access to coursework. Necessary support is provided through GANAS (Gaining Access ’AND Academic Success), an innovative access and retention program that serves community college transfer students.

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