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They are Ready! Transforming the Narrative to Engage Black Males in Educational Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Role models/mentors. We should have the same fervor with Black boys and men - seeing their humanity and celebrating the tremendous value they have added not just in sports, but also in academics and various career fields. Hines is Professor of Counseling in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University.

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Diversifying the Workforce for Data-Related Jobs Starts with Inclusivity in Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Carol Parish Increasing and diversifying a workforce skilled to fill these data-driven jobs can be achieved through highly mentored, intentional involvement in innovative, publishable research projects. We focus on understanding the molecular behavior of model compounds related to energy and human health.

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The Consuming Effects of Commodifying Education on Faculty Members

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Bennett As a team, we are a recent doctoral graduate, now administrator, and a faculty member, formerly a mentor and now colleague, to the first author; we have collaborated via mentorship, co-instruction, and co-research. How can resistance to neoliberal positionings reinforce learning, academic rigor, and basic human decency?

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

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Participants will then return to their home districts and instruct students in multiple languages, including Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, and Khmer, the predominant language of Cambodia. We have the human capital to prepare students [for] these roles.” At the same time, the program will help employers build their workforces.

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As AI Continues to Progress, Opportunities and Warnings Abound

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Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors. The human instructor can place more emphasis on things like giving emotional support to their students, encouraging them, [and] mentoring them.” AI also has institutional implications.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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Enhancing Understanding of Urban Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,