Active Minds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This fellowship gives Black, Indigenous, and students of Color (BIPOC) students the opportunity to be mentored by national experts in the mental health field as they complete independent, funded research projects. Active Minds is proud to announce the 2023 Emerging Scholars Fellowship cohort! Maico Demi B. Baker Brianna A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

In that role, she facilitated project implementation, evaluation and reporting for Lake-Sumter State College, Seminole State College and Valencia. Her most recent publication is “Fostering STEM Diversity.” She previously served as the program director for the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 15, 2024

Certification Pathways: Facilitating access to certification in high-demand areas such as ESOL (English for speaker of other languages) to enhance job prospects and support diverse learners. This demonstrates the positive outcomes resulting from the support and mentoring provided by the project. and another 16.67% had GPAs between 3.1

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

That’s one of the explicit goals of the program, to adopt a collective impactive approach, to break down silos, and facilitate practice-sharing,” said Dr. Ifeatu Oliobi, a researcher with the Education Transformation Team at Ithaka S+R. Ifeatu Oliobi, researcher with the Education Transformation Team at Ithaka S+R.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Georgetown University Law Center Career mentors: Eloise Pasachoff, Georgetown University Law Center; Janel George, Georgetown University Law Center; Noah Zatz, UCLA School of Law; Dr. Laura Gomez, UCLA School of Law; and Ching Wen Rosa Yen, St. legal studies, St. John’s University; LL.M., UCLA School of Law; and J.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 14, 2023

Bright Working closely with a mentor, Josiah developed a deep interest in the field of cybersecurity and witnessed the genuine enthusiasm of industry professionals. Dr. Marcus Bright is a social impact facilitator and the author of Brighter Ways Forward: Reflections on Sports, Tech, and Socioeconomic Mobility Dr. Marcus A.

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

How did this small percentage of Black administrators facilitate their success against the odds? Black university leaders had a deep desire to serve as the mentors and role models that many of them never had. The same report found that Black/African American administrators in higher education were just 8% of all senior leaders.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Flourishing is most often associated with creating and facilitating the environment for a person to be successful. Have access to mentors and role models who can help them succeed. While these terms are often used synonymously, they have slightly different meanings. Thriving is often related to the success generated by one's effort.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. The dashboard is available through the Office of Student Success. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. Locust and a third-party mediator held listening sessions and facilitated the fellows’ efforts to process their feelings and sort out their group dynamics.

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Close the Gap Foundation

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Becoming a mentor has always appealed to me. To me, being a mentor meant I had my life together. When browsing online, I saw an opportunity with Close the Gap to be a mentor, and it seemed to be a great way to give back! After applying and being accepted, it made me ponder what it meant to be a mentor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Mentorship Part of the grant’s funds will be used to replicate a peer mentoring program that already exists on UConn’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program. It will also be hiring a full-time program coordinator to help manage the grant’s efforts.

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COE

AUGUST 13, 2023

Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S. Blog Veterans Upward Bound Programs Commemorate Memorial Day with Activities and Ceremonies Across the U.S.

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Close the Gap Foundation

JANUARY 23, 2023

The Fellowship Program Director, Anwar Dhanani, and his team have worked tirelessly to incorporate feedback from past participants into actionable changes for the program, which includes a more engaging digital community on Discord where students and mentors can network, learn, and get help on their social impact projects.

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Close the Gap Foundation

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Sunnyvale, CALIFORNIA — The next evolution of Close the Gap Foundation’s flagship Social Impact Fellowship — a 3-month summer fellowship for rising high school juniors and seniors to find mentors, give back, and grow their confidence — is about to launch. But gathering feedback was just the first step.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

This means employing students as success specialists to provide outreach, moving beyond a simple alert system to a facilitator of real human connection. The university has taken a peer-to-peer approach that focuses not on information but on engagement. Our analysis for this report shows a 6.8 percentage-point lift in persistence.

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Close the Gap Foundation

APRIL 13, 2022

Along the foundation's journey to serve FGLI students with empathy and care, forming the BoE originated as a method for Close the Gap Foundation to enhance the mentor training process for its programs, which it successfully achieved through interactive workshops, educator panel discussions, and Q&A sessions on how to mentor with empathy.

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COE

JUNE 30, 2023

He highlighted the importance of an empathetic, albeit “tough” mentor in a student’s college access journey. The beginning of the program was an expected geographic and culture shock for students, especially those who grew up with a rural background, Santana said.

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The Advisor That Cares

JUNE 15, 2023

Facilitating these skills will serve them for a lifetime. Connect Classes to Career – To prevent students from losing motivation, connecting them with mentors and opportunities within their career path will remind them what all their hard work and effort is building toward.

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Scholarship America

DECEMBER 12, 2022

That led to co-facilitating EPIC’s Pacific Islander Leaders of Tomorrow (PILOT) program. 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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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

To achieve these goals, it was imperative to improve access to student information and facilitate seamless communication and collaboration between teams – specifically faculty and staff who faced challenges sharing student information. Although early in its adoption, SUNY Broome has already observed a 3.7%

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Close the Gap Foundation

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

I think mentorship like this is a key mutual growth opportunity for both students and mentors,” added Adele McClure , executive director, Virginia Legislative Black Caucus and Forbes Under 30 lister.

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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. With this in mind, we (Hines and Fletcher) compiled the collection of readings by prominent scholars, as described herein. Dr. Erik M.

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COE

APRIL 16, 2024

Educators and mentors must recognize these students’ value to academia and provide tailored support to address their specific needs. Networking complements femtorship, facilitating connections within academic circles and beyond. Representation is crucial, and we acknowledge the unique challenges faced by first-gen BIPOC students.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Students were also encouraged to join and engage with peers, staff and faculty via online message boards, hosted on the PeopleGrove platform by the Tri-Mentoring Program (Ryerson’s peer-to-peer mentoring program). A few of the groups offered through the online message boards on the PeopleGrove platform. In Conclusion.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 10, 2023

This means employing students as success specialists to provide outreach, moving beyond a simple alert system to a facilitator of real human connection. The university has taken a peer-to-peer approach that focuses not on information but on engagement. Our analysis for this report shows a 6.8 percentage-point lift in persistence.

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Timely MD

JULY 18, 2022

a helpline) Familiarization with services, resources, and departments available both on and off campus (i.e. a helpline) Familiarization with services, resources, and departments available both on and off campus (i.e.

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College Planners of America

MAY 9, 2024

A student could spend their precious college years losing friends, mentors, coaches, and campus jobs. A student’s college, upon closure, may have facilitated transfers to an associated college that will enable students to complete their degrees. Not to mention the high cost of losing credits in unplanned transfers. Colleges fail.

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College Planners of America

MAY 9, 2024

A student could spend their precious college years losing friends, mentors, coaches, and campus jobs. A student’s college, upon closure, may have facilitated transfers to an associated college that will enable students to complete their degrees. Not to mention the high cost of losing credits in unplanned transfers. Colleges fail.

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EAB

APRIL 7, 2023

A proactive librarian mentor program became a popular way to orient and support students at the institution, even expanding beyond the initially identified risk pool! Empower stakeholders who are especially good allies The entire process of including colleagues in your work isn’t simply a way to facilitate your own delivery.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

predominately white institutions) known to facilitate discrimination, isolation, and marginalization. Additional mentorship efforts can include pairing students with mentors of the same sex, race, or ethnicity who regularly meet with to provide support/guidance and modeling. Kwanza celebrations, minority health month, healing circles).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

For me, this experience is not only related to family members and close friends, but also to mentors, especially my former HBCU professors. As I reflect on their legacy, the label “superheroes” describes these professors in that their power and abilities at fostering and facilitating positive human transformation were immensely phenomenal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

School counselors can facilitate this by having Black males take career assessments such as the O’Net Interest Profiler , and ensure they are taking rigorous coursework in preparation for postsecondary options such as a college/university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 24, 2023

I'm a former foster child, and I'm a student who struggled with food insecurities and housing insecurities, and I'm a first-generation college student, but I went to Sac State and it was an environment where I had mentors and people who supported me, and programs and services that I benefited from,” Wood said in an interview with Diverse.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

He was an advocate for practices that removed barriers and also facilitated completion.” Gerardo de los Santos said his father mentored numerous individuals and pushed them to get their doctorates. “Being an anti-racist is removing the barriers to everyone having similar opportunities and similar achievements.

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