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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Empowering Excellence: A TRIO Program’s Journey to Streamlined Success with empower™ 

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The platform’s structured database system allowed me to utilize different fields and columns, enhancing my understanding of their importance in the APR. During a first-generation-to-college celebration, my colleague shared her positive experiences with empower. Initially, I used a spreadsheet, which was helpful.

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