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Researcher-Mentor Challenges Students to Pursue Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. in curriculum and instruction with an emphasis on special education from Freed-Hardeman University, and a B.S. I’m gifted in teaching, mentoring, and encouraging. She holds a Ph.D.

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The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. Neoliberalism’s intrusion in higher education causes students to expect high return-on-investment; correspondingly, faculty are expected to be superhuman workers. Dr. Cathryn B.

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4 Ways to Partner with Faculty on Student Success

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Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum.

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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. Graduate Level Project upGRADS California State University, Fullerton (Fullerton, CA) Less than 10% of college and university faculty in the U.S. Excelencia in Education sees this as a program that is helping develop professionals and future faculty.

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An Equity and Access Champion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

educational leadership & policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Alberta M. Dueñas says her work calls upon “researchers, educators, [and] even, at times, policymakers to think about the ways in which policies, curriculums, rules, bylaws.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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