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They are Ready! Transforming the Narrative to Engage Black Males in Educational Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Collaborate. Role models/mentors. Give Black boys and young men the agency to discuss their feelings, needs, and views on their concerns and issues. Sharing how they feel can be cathartic, a release to move forward. Invite Black men from the community into the classroom and counseling groups to discuss their experiences.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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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. In Fall 2022, our first faculty mentor pairings were made,” says Ben Telesca, vice president for student affairs, SRSU.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is also a desire to raise awareness about CAMP, so there is collaboration with the Latinx student center on campus and other student organizations to come up with meaningful ways to celebrate Latinx heritage during National Hispanic Heritage Month. “The They learn about what we call the hidden curriculum of grad school,” Janssen says.

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Breaking the Assimilationist Trajectory

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educational leadership, Kansas State University Career mentors: Dr. Cornel Pewewardy, Portland State University; Holly Mackey, White House Initiative on Advancing Educational Equity, Excellence, and Economic Opportunity for Native Americans and Strengthening Tribal Colleges and Universities; David Thompson, Kansas State; and Debbie K. “You

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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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The Equity Educator - Dr. Angelica Witcher Walker

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in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Virginia Tech Career Mentors: Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, Dr. Aubrey Knight, Dr. Azziza Bankole, Dr. Shelvy Campbell-Monroe, and Carol Lynn Maxwell-Thompson, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. We design the curriculum individually to students’ needs.

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