Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students. As the Hispanic population in the U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. As an undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, she worked with fellow classmates and friends to mentor middle school and high school students throughout Texas. I'm a first-generation student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. A number of them mentor budding scientists of color at a time when the scientific sphere remains overwhelmingly white and male. of the population.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

However, it is necessary to recognize the fight against Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) and affirmative action, which continues to dominate and has taken center stage on the educational landscape. Have access to mentors and role models who can help them succeed. As part of the ongoing battle, Texas Gov.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. This motivation we have termed an equity ethic , a principled concern for racial and social justice that becomes a chief motivator throughout one’s career. Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. There is also an effort to increase equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez’s life is a living example of the importance of mentors in higher education. million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. He did not have mentors until he propelled himself back to college at age 32.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. “When I went to other spaces and started thinking about my work, community engagement just seemed so natural to me.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Banks chronicled the history of Black AERA leadership in a March 2016 article, titled “Expanding the Epistemological Terrain: Increasing Equity and Diversity Within the American Educational Research Association,” that appeared in the journal Educational Researcher. It’s kind of like the grandfather, the father, and the son,” says Banks.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. 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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

You probably over-prepare for meetings,” says Dr. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. It's in our professional practice to begin with, to advocate for equity in health care,” says Williams. You’re] constantly analyzing things.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia. Mahon offers a different perspective on how to diversify the nursing profession and increase health equity: boost ADN programs. Some nursing schools have implemented outreach programs to high schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 28, 2023

This may include mentoring, training workshops, executive education programs, and job rotations. It is a journey that aligns with the historical mission, values, and aspirations of those who have fought for educational equity and social progress. Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail serves as president of Saint Augustine’s University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Beck, administrators, faculty, staff, and student leadership have used data and intentional practices to re-center campus culture around an equity-minded student success agenda and solidify strategic direction in closing equity gaps.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Webster University The mission of Webster University, a private institution in Missouri, prioritizes diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). We place people anywhere from UBS (financial services) to someone who decided to take a risk and start a business through our Center for Entrepreneurship where they were mentored,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Commodore said being hyper-visible also means that Black faculty members find themselves mentoring students of color outside of their department because there are no other faculty of color with whom students can identify and seek mentorship. My non-Black colleagues — my white colleagues — cannot go, and it’s not a thing.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A commitment to the work It’s that kind of commitment to equity issues that has inspired Jean, who has been at the university since 2011. “The president made it very clear that the ruling will not change our commitment to supporting underrepresented and disenfranchised students,” Jean says. Jean’s advocacy has not gone unnoticed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Gerardo de los Santos said his father mentored numerous individuals and pushed them to get their doctorates.

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