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Ninth Cohort of ELEVATE Fellows Announced

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ELEVATE fellows develop skills through hands-on workshops on academic writing, grant writing, teaching, mentoring, and achieving tenure. ELEVATE supports ongoing learning, training, and networking of early career MSI faculty by providing workshops, opportunities to network with peers, and a platform for collaboration.

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Dr. Emily Bouck, Michigan State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Emily Bouck is actively involved in grant writing and leads such funded programs. She is a professor and associate dean for research at Michigan State University, researching mathematics education for students with disabilities and those at-risk.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The program also provides access to mentors for early career faculty and trains them in grant writing, op-ed writing, teaching, and how to achieve a better work-life balance. Gasman said that offering the ELEVATE program free of cost is also critical as many MSI faculty lack travel and professional development funding.

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From Crisis to Solutions: Global Conference Charts New Course for Urban Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This year, there were over 60 sessions, including a session focused on grant writing and building the pipeline of the African American male from PreK through the college presidency. “It “And a lot of time, we don’t have enough reporting from on the ground on what’s going on in urban education.”

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New Briefing Lays Out Strategies and Challenges for HSIs in Getting Title V Funds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Stephanie Aguilar-Smith, an assistant professor at the University of North Texas who studies grant-seeking by HSIs, the reason schools have this problem is simple: money. You have to have the money from the get-go to build this office, to staff this office, the get professional training about grant-writing, management, and implementation.”

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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

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Lara Perez-Felkner, an associate professor of higher education and sociology and principal investigator of the grant, Florida State will put on a summer research bootcamp for faculty and their mentors. Bradley University, which received just under $1 million over three years, is taking a different approach.

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Supporting research in a world of finite resources

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There appeared to be an insufficient amount of funding to support shared research facilities, including a lack of specific funds for repairs or replacement of large (and usually expensive) research equipment.