Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

For this piece, we identify the function and effects of neoliberalism on the relationships among graduate students and faculty. Neoliberalism’s intrusion in higher education causes students to expect high return-on-investment; correspondingly, faculty are expected to be superhuman workers. Dr. Cathryn B.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Throughout my academic journey, I’ve had very different mentors — from clinical to lifeline, including those with diverse backgrounds. The feedback I received from my lifeline mentor was not always what I wanted to hear, but it was the honest truth. To be an effective mentor, you must know how to apply your support.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

where harassment reporting mechanisms often fail to protect Black faculty. So, you can be mentoring these students … and being an advisor, and all of those things, and it gets placed in this nice little bucket called service. Neither does teaching. This parallels findings in the U.S., I’ve felt it,” says Patton Davis. “I

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Civitas Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Faculty play a central role in building connections with students. As Inside Higher Ed notes, “Students often turn to their faculty members for advice and support outside of academics, including career advice and mental health support, so positive student-faculty relationships are a critical piece of student success.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

Katina Lang-Lindsey The center has announced its plans to host this ninth annual early-career faculty training program June 12-14. The three-day professional development opportunity was created specifically to address the unique needs of early career faculty members at Minority Serving Institutions (MSIs).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. 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. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Bazan — whose term begins July 1, soon after the official transition to the new name of Union Adventist University — brings a long legacy of supporting and mentoring students, university leaders, and local church constituents. The values and mission are lived beautifully by the faculty, students, staff, and administration.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

health psychology, East Carolina University Career mentors: Dr. Jeannie Golden, East Carolina University; Dr. Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin.

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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

JANUARY 12, 2024

Faculty Fellowship Award will recognize the growth and promise of outstanding underrepresented in medicine (URiM) psychiatrists while also encouraging mentoring for junior and mid-career psychiatric faculty. Bell is also an advocate for underrepresented minority psychiatrists training and teaching others. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Nonetheless, the percentage of women STEM faculty remains disproportionately small. This lack of representation has long been blamed as a pipeline problem — that there are fewer women receiving STEM PhDs and therefore fewer candidates to teach. But as time has passed, that excuse has rung less true.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Congrats, colleagues!”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. When he is not teaching, Mark is running URI’s Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. Clark, Binghamton University as well as so many others who have supported and helped me along the way Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Most things can wait. When he is not teaching, Mark is running URI’s Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. For seven years, she helped serve the needs of senior faculty and intrepid students. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. Dr. Ruth M.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 30, 2024

As dean, she will oversee a college with a robust research and teaching portfolio spanning nine regional campuses and training sites for third and fourth-year medical and physician assistant students. “I I see teaching and mentoring as an essential part of being a physician,” said Littles.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

With a new federal grant that Chang and his fellow UConn faculty and staff members have secured from the U.S. 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. The search for the new hire is currently underway, according to Rola.

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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. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

educational leadership & policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Alberta M. Another is “Culturally Responsive Mentoring: a Psychosociocultural Perspective on Sustaining Students of Color Career Aspirations in STEM,” which she is co-authoring.

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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 began hosting bi-weekly bonfires in her backyard for her fellow new hires and other young faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

However, Odle’s team found that the faculty in these matches were more likely to be temporary staff or adjuncts, rather than tenured or tenure-track. Although contingent faculty may be equally good teachers as tenured faculty, their positions might limit them as mentors for students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Patterson-Stephens guided the development of CMU’s first strategic plan for diversity since 2012 and reinstated the Faculty and Staff of Color Alliance, which had remained inoperable since 2013. The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Shadee Malaklou “hooks said a few years ago, ‘I felt like a balloon that had been popped and deflated,’ because of the way she was so committed to writing and teaching, to her own detriment,” said Dr. M. But those who knew hooks personally were aware her health had been waning after years of fighting white supremacy and patriarchy.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I Carlos Galan “I was afforded opportunities to navigate higher education because of the presence of faculty of color, because of the presence of Latino faculty,” Galan said. students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

A Latino student researching a university department observed that hardly any of the faculty had backgrounds similar to his own. “I I was afforded opportunities to navigate higher education because of the presence of faculty of color, because of the presence of Latino faculty,” Galan said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology Mentors: Dr. Alan Erera and Dr. Alejandro Toriello, H. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P. Williams said some faculty members become such experts in their field that they forget what it is like to learn as novices.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

If you’re going to a public flagship, you’re probably getting a tuition waiver and some kind of stipend because you’re teaching or doing research,” said Velez. Espinosa said this exposes students at MSIs to research opportunities and mentoring. The differences in debt are hugely problematic.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Anne Arundel Community College (MD) is creating ongoing opportunities and expectations for college employees to examine policies that result in adverse impacts for racially minoritized students, faculty and staff. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

When he is not teaching, Currie is at National AIDS Education and Services for Minorities (NAESM), working with queer minorities as a behavioral health clinician. “We Outside of CAU, Currie is an adjunct faculty member in the School of Social Work at Simmons University. But I knew I wanted to help other people.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. “The California legislature put some caveats. Then, you see the successes.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Students benefit tremendously from seeing themselves reflected in the faculty, staff, and student peers who make up the campus community. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Also important to this concept is the need for reflective representation. Dr. Merrill L Irving Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Just Faculty Fellowship. The program, which will eventually expand to include six scholars, will give fellows financial support for their research and teaching, as well as mentoring, networking, and community over a six-year term. of STEM faculty are from minoritized backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Lima-Neves As a political scientist, Lima-Neves uses an interdisciplinary approach to her teaching and research as well as a transnational perspective. She encourages young faculty to focus on the stories they want to tell. Her distinct impact is valued by JCSU faculty and administration. “Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Glenn Gilyot Institution:  University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Program:   Chemistry PhD , Graduate Minor: College Teaching , Graduate Certificate: Science Outreach Education:  Xavier University of Louisiana, Chemistry B.S. Mentors:  Candace Lawrence, PhD (Xavier University of Louisiana); Timothy Glass, Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This new legislation presents a formidable barrier that hampers the ability of Black people (students, faculty, and staff) to flourish and thrive in their academic pursuits. And targeting of faculty by groups such as Idaho Freedom Foundations does not provide a campus environment where Black people feel safe. Sydney Freeman Jr. •

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