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

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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

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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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Leveraging Grants for STEM Equity

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Responding to a problem To help address these issues, the National Science Foundation has created the ADVANCE Adaptation track grants, which offer schools millions of dollars to implement tested programs to increase the representation of women in academic science and engineering careers. These are not programs that work right away.

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Empowering Black Scholars in STEM: The Urgency of Mentorship and Inclusion

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It accomplishes this with initiatives such as the analytic hub, grant proposal workshops, and PEER mentoring programs. She noted that Dr. Muldrow taught her grant writing, a skill that has proven invaluable in her current position. The significance of mentorship must continue to be emphasized. Similarly, Ph.D.

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Ninth Cohort of ELEVATE Fellows Announced

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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

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

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However, the amount of Title V funding—federal dollars granted to expand opportunities for Hispanic students—has not kept pace, resulting in increased competition for the money. One of the main obstacles that schools have in applying for Title V grants is decentralized structures for doing so, the briefing found. Dr. Deborah A.