Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

When she arrived at Mary Baldwin, her vision included getting to know the community, elevating existing programs, and supporting the school’s diversity and inclusivity. Diversity and inclusivity are priorities for Fox. I definitely want to be a resource to other presidents and other institutions,” Fox said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

No matter what happens, keep pushing towards greatness.Career mentors: Dr. Trina Shanks (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Dr. Rogerio M. Theres something about exposing yourself to other cultures that makes you more open-minded, more inclusive, and challenges biases and the ways you see the world, she says.

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Close the Gap Foundation

AUGUST 30, 2021

The Forbes Under 30 Circles connect Forbes 30 Under 30 Listers with first-generation, low-income (FGLI) high school and college students looking to expand their networks and their definition of success. “It’s so great having a mentor, someone that can guide us and help us.

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Clair Kamp Dush

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Using the definition from Ohio State’s Kirwan Institute : “implicit bias refers to the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. Increasing your social resources by participating in mentoring programs, cultivating multiple and diverse mentors , and practicing gratitude.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They have general programs like mentoring programs, orientation and things of that nature, but nothing very specific to those populations. So starting from the very beginning, going all the way through graduation when they're becoming mentors to the new incoming class of students. I definitely remember how tough that moment was.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So Let's Get Ready is a national near-peer mentoring organization. Because I think for me personally, my first experience in college access was as a near-peer mentor right after I graduated from college in an AmeriCorps program where we were leveraging the age proximity to provide services. JW: Yeah, I can definitely do that.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

And I think the other thing that I have just learned, frankly, and it's been very humbling over the last couple years, Katie, is that we've been challenged a lot as a center, and as a department, and as a staff, to go beyond lip service when it comes to culturally responsive, inclusive services and programs.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

So, to answer your first question, I definitely agree that universities, campuses want to diversify. WL: And that definitely changed my perspective of which type of institution is going to see me as a viable candidate. A tutoring center, peer mentoring, alumni networks, all these. I know we are in a chaotic place. WL: Correct.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 24, 2025

No matter what happens, keep pushing towards greatness.Career mentors: Dr. Trina Shanks (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor); Dr. Rogerio M. Theres something about exposing yourself to other cultures that makes you more open-minded, more inclusive, and challenges biases and the ways you see the world, she says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

If you look up the book definition of intersectionality, you can identify the sociological framework suggested by Kimberl Crenshaw in the 1980s that explains how complex power structures of individuals and groups combine, or intersect, in patterns of discrimination and privilege across multiple factors such as gender, race, and class.

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