Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

educational research and policy analysis (higher education), North Carolina State University Career mentors: Dr. Audrey “AJ” Jaeger, North Carolina State University; Dr. Jori Hall, University of Georgia; Dr. Tony Cawthon, Clemson University; Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

The Sloan Foundation is also supporting each institution’s participation in the Equity in Graduate Education Consortium , a networked improvement community that equips participants with research, tools, and change management strategies to achieve systemic change.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. We also provide scholarships if they do get into UCLA or UC,” says Alexander. The California legislature put some caveats. Then, you see the successes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. Wherever we went, Orlando knew how to engage people’s hearts through his own scholarship and research, from my shy niece to the President of a powerful university. Mentoring means impact.

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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. It’s scholarship in a different form.” To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. They make all kinds of videos, mixtapes, and songs,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Hall was encouraged to lean into who she is, to do, as she put it, the scholarship that feeds her soul.

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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

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

APRIL 5, 2024

Two of the ongoing initiatives were Hostos’s Research Center and its Mentor/Mentee Jobs on Campus program. The mentors] ensure that students are on-track academically, and also provide students with guidance and career development supports.” The 2023-24 school year saw 12 pilot initiatives implemented, Oviedo says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 11, 2023

At DFC, every student gets a scholarship of some amount, and the average student cost is under $3,000. Each cohort is assigned to a mentor, who meets with the full group once a month, as well as each member individually. “We Hall, who is graduating this week, got a scholarship to study for her bachelor’s at St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Yale Law School Career mentors: Amna Akbar, The Ohio State University; Guy-Uriel Charles, Harvard Law School; and Devon Carbado, UCLA. In this role, she has been able to champion equity-minded solutions to some of the nation’s most vexing challenges. political science, Stanford University; M.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

communication, University of Southern California Career mentors: Dr. Rudy P. Each of my projects has an overarching umbrella: community, technology, justice, equity, and media,” says Agloro. “I Her scholarship translates into policy and engagement.” Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.A., Guevarra, Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is a dual admission program with the Armour College of Engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT), which provides scholarships. There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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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

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The scholar just six years out of graduate school has already exhibited an extraordinary leadership in the field, according to Dr. Leslie Ashburn-Nardo, vice provost for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Office of the Provost at Drexel. political science, University of California at Irvine; B.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 21, 2023

This year, Queens revamped its scholarship levels and allocation of aid to meet a higher percentage of students’ financial need. The organizers make sure that there are a diverse group of mentors and accommodate requests from potential students to be matched with a mentor of the same background.

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Close the Gap Foundation

OCTOBER 18, 2024

– Kevin Pang, CFO (Close the Gap) Our Summer Fellowship Program is designed to break down barriers for FGLI students by offering them scholarships, refurbished MacBooks, and access to mentors who share their backgrounds and aspirations. Congratulations to all the Fellows!"

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sharrelle Barber Title: Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Age: 38 Education: B.S., James, Duke University; and Dr. Chandra L. and Brazil.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

In an era when so many faculty and young scholars are trying to just focus on their scholarship or focus on writing the book, Everrett is that rare individual who can bring it all together.” Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 11, 2024

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. (“From Opening Doors to Opening Minds,” Aug. White House Honoree, Jan. A 2007 Emerging Scholar, Dr.

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Scholarship America

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

by Kyle Walcott for Scholarship America Makayla Dawkins, a public health major at the University of Connecticut, found her passion for public health at an early age through volunteer experiences. The post Providing Health & Hope to All: Dream Award Scholar Makayla Dawkins appeared first on Scholarship America.

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COE

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Maintaining Inclusive Campuses After Affirmative Action: Educators Discuss Pathways Forward November 1, 2024 — by Holly Hexter Educators say campuses can maintain multicultural, supportive environments in the aftermath of mandates eliminating affirmative action and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) practices.

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Scholarship America

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The Barry Griswell Scholarship was founded in memory of Scholarship America’s former Board Chair, who overcame great odds with the help of scholarships. Leila was introduced to the term “heartwork” by mentors and friends within community organizing spaces, and she immediately knew it described what she was setting out to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We’ve also provided emergency housing, financial support for off-campus temporary housing and scholarships for DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) students,” says Morishita. CSUN has put an infrastructure in place for faculty and staff recruitment, including equity review officers.

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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

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. This scholarship focuses on historical understandings of how race and gender influenced the creation of the current Black man in collegiate identity.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Several fellows deeply examined student success at their institutions, specifically focusing on equity issues.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

Financing graduate education can be challenging, but scholarships, fellowships, and on-campus employment options exist to alleviate financial burdens. Educators and mentors must recognize these students’ value to academia and provide tailored support to address their specific needs.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The UIA reflected that with web shows elevating topics and guests that directed attention to the issues and values we prioritize: equity, student success, experiences and outcomes for traditionally underserved communities, and diverse leadership. Each month we aggregate and share the best of what we've learned, heard, and read.

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Catherine Cronin

AUGUST 3, 2023

As editors, we have been continually gratified and humbled at the level of dedication, scholarship and kindness of the HE4Good authors – and look forward to sharing the fruits of this community of scholars when the book is published , openly, in just a few weeks.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The UIA reflected that with web shows elevating topics and guests that directed attention to the issues and values we prioritize: equity, student success, experiences and outcomes for traditionally underserved communities, and diverse leadership. Each month we aggregate and share the best of what we've learned, heard, and read.

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COE

OCTOBER 2, 2023

From Humble Beginnings to Leading Higher Education Advocacy: My Journey October 2, 2023 — by Kimberly Jones Becoming COE president, I strive for educational equity, inspired by my parents’ resilience and belief in transformative education for all.

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Spooky season is upon us, but there’s nothing to be scared of when it comes to finding scholarships! A quick look at our Browse Scholarships page will treat you to lots of options—and applying doesn’t have to be tricky. SMART awards over 400 scholarships annually to STEM students across the nation.

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Scholarship America

AUGUST 24, 2023

So what can we do, and how can scholarships help? That’s where private scholarships can do the most good. For employers who want to get a step ahead in developing a sustainable talent pipeline and a diverse future workforce, equity-focused private scholarships are a perfect tool. What does success look like?

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Timely MD

MAY 2, 2023

Indiana University’s LGBTQ+ Culture Center connects students to mentors and community, with counseling resources embedded in the center. But they also add up, making it difficult for transgender individuals to complete their education.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When I started my doctoral work, what I started to sort of realize is, even as someone who had a really strong awareness of equity and justice and all the various different issues, there were still people in groups, in concepts that were missing,” Stewart says. psychology, Ohio State University; M.A., He dove even deeper into the research.

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