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Dr. Orlando Taylor: A Person to Emulate

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He took me there to meet his long-time colleague and co-founder of the magazine, Dr. Bill Cox. They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. Mentoring means impact. He knew the power of mentoring as he himself had had some good teachers.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. To simply pursue it because it’s on-trend is irresponsible.

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Losing My Superheroes: The Transformational Power of My HBCU Professors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves: Living Life on Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the goals I’m trying to achieve is to portray our lives outside of the classroom to humanize our experience and to show that many of our contributions actually happen outside of the classroom in the research that we do, in the work that we publish and the work that we do with students,” she says.

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Association Blends Science and Culture for Hispanics, Native Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. A number of them mentor budding scientists of color at a time when the scientific sphere remains overwhelmingly white and male. of the population. “One

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Have access to mentors and role models who can help them succeed. It also means having people who can help them connect with opportunities and resources and developing mentoring relationships with other Black faculty, inside or outside their field of study. It also means having Black role models who can show them what is possible.

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