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Examples of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the services it provides to first-year students are individualized academic advising, tutoring and community-building events. Students can participate in events and come into the CAMP office and discuss questions they may have. Faculty members must attend four required workshops to be mentors with the program. “To

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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

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They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. Another time, I hosted an event at the President’s house in Santa Barbara, and my speech pathologist niece said to me in awe, “That’s Orlando Taylor! Mentoring means impact.

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% Prior to that, GALA raised over $250,000 to endow UND LGBTQ student scholarships; two are given every year. of LGBTQ people experienced bullying, harassment, or assault at college, compared to 18.9%

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As Decision Day Looms, Colleges Try to Boost Minority Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year, Queens revamped its scholarship levels and allocation of aid to meet a higher percentage of students’ financial need. Montclair offers events on the Black student experience and a session with the Latinx/a/o Caucus. These events take place over Zoom, so that prospective students from across the world can participate.

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

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It’s scholarship in a different form.” To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. Gray says he felt pressure to produce another article when a friend came to him and said that the idea was not done because the scholarship was just one leg of the relay.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We And by providing support, mentoring, and a ready-made network of peers, clusters can help minoritized faculty avoid burnout and stay in their roles. Steele remembers being at an event for new faculty.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

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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. “How