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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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But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. As an undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, she worked with fellow classmates and friends to mentor middle school and high school students throughout Texas. I'm a first-generation student.

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Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities. This program will feature time for faculty to learn from their mentors as well as professional development workshops, including one on grant-writing.

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For me, this experience is not only related to family members and close friends, but also to mentors, especially my former HBCU professors. These mentors rejected insular individualism and strongly encouraged the value of collectivity.

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There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Based on her extensive years in university leadership, Montgomery suggested that younger people look for mentors in many places, of many kinds. There are many different types of mentors,” Montgomery said. “I I would encourage younger people to speak to individuals.

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Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We And by providing support, mentoring, and a ready-made network of peers, clusters can help minoritized faculty avoid burnout and stay in their roles. The experience was isolating.

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JULY 6, 2023

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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MARCH 13, 2023

Commodore said being hyper-visible also means that Black faculty members find themselves mentoring students of color outside of their department because there are no other faculty of color with whom students can identify and seek mentorship. My non-Black colleagues — my white colleagues — cannot go, and it’s not a thing.

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JULY 11, 2023

He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. I could never pay [back] the mentoring that faculty of color have given me as I have navigated higher education,” he said. students. “I She describes him as a “genuinely amazing human being” who “cares about everyone.”

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Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. For some, it was a political figure, for others, it was a local businessperson, or board colleague.

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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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Banks, who taught and mentored Howard while he was a graduate student at the University of Washington was tickled when he realized that Milner, Howard’s predecessor as AERA president, was taught and mentored by Howard when he was a doctoral student at The Ohio State University.

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He has also been a peer mentor in the Sloan Scholar program, helping students in different departments and cohorts connect with each other. On top of that, he mentors master’s degree students and undergraduates and has worked with high school and middle school students.

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It was mentors and elders in the church that encouraged me to pursue higher education in the first place. As I made my way through higher education, I started to realize that it was my professors and other administrators that became mentors and examples for me. “I was raised in the A.M.E. Zion Church,” Turner said. “It

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She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia. Bland says there are faculty mentors within the Borra College of Health Sciences and the School of Nursing who mentor faculty who are entering academia for the first time.

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I retained a passion for this work because of some of the mentors that I met during my undergraduate experience, who saw things in me that I didn’t even see in myself,” says Jean, adding that the mentoring he received has inspired him to help others along the way. Jean’s advocacy has not gone unnoticed.

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JUNE 23, 2023

We have so many first-generation students that using our alums as mentors has really been a powerful thing for our students.” I take it very seriously to mentor women and people of color to positions of increased responsibility and authority,” she continues. “I I also try to do it on the national level.”

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Lima-Neves says she has seen JCSU female faculty do research with a commitment to the communities they are writing about as well as a desire to include the students in the work and mentor them along the way, guiding them into graduate studies.

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To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. “It’s scholarship in a different form.” Black and Belonging serves students, ages 12-18, specifically emphasizing those who attend predominantly Black K-12 public schools.

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MAY 26, 2023

Sam Houston’s academic success center offers one-on-one tutoring and mentoring. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors. “Once they’re here, looking at things about adjusting and transitioning into the college environment and the college process.” Most recently, the university has developed its first-generation center.

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Dr. Ehsan Adeli, an assistant professor at Stanford and one of Nerrise’s mentors in this work, praised her care, diligence, and ability to translate highly technical material into plain English. She uses engineering principles to try to identify biomarkers that can help spot diseases earlier on so that they can be tracked.

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Part of the fellowship involved mentoring three undergraduate researchers, assisting them in designing experiments and teaching them synthetic techniques. Gilyot explains the intricate process of synthesizing small-molecule fluorescent sensors to be able to detect concentrations of biological materials such as proteins and neuropeptides. “It

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Agbomi has worked closely with mentors there to investigate and research self-organizing neural units to model ischemic stroke and other neuropathology. Nishika Edwards, educational research program coordinator at the University of South Carolina’s School of Medicine, Greenville, in the department of biomedical sciences.

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Black university leaders had a deep desire to serve as the mentors and role models that many of them never had. This motivation we have termed an equity ethic , a principled concern for racial and social justice that becomes a chief motivator throughout one’s career.

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This may include mentoring, training workshops, executive education programs, and job rotations. . • Professional development programs: Once high-potential individuals are identified, strategic professional development programs should be implemented to enhance their leadership capabilities.

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I thought about my coach, who had been a mentor to me,” Forsyth said. “I Later, she was presented with an opportunity to be head coach at California State University, Northridge (CSUN,) a role she served in from 1996-99, before becoming head coach for UCLA in 1999. “I I thought maybe this is something that I would like to do.

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Gerardo de los Santos said his father mentored numerous individuals and pushed them to get their doctorates. While he was integral to serving Latinx people in higher education, de los Santos’ scope was more expansive. “He He advocated for everybody, and he always believed that everyone should have access,” said Richardson.

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Biggs says that since the ribbon cutting event in August marking the launch of QCC’s MRC, there has been a boost in students interested in becoming peer mentors. There is a goal to bring the three-year graduation rate to 40% by Fall 2026. “A

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HISPA has received several awards and recognitions for its impact, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2020. About 200 students attended each event. In 2015, it received The White House Initiative on Educational Excellence for Hispanics’ Bright Spot in Hispanic Education honor.

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Williams and Johnson hope this will help to short-circuit what has become a self-fulfilling prophecy in the nursing world: people from minoritized backgrounds are less likely to join the profession and to move up within it if they cannot see potential role models and mentors. “We We think [ADENL] will have a huge effect,” says Williams.

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Dr. Hongtao Yu Morgan State also has an alumnus mentoring program. “To become the first African American governor in Maryland’s history, the third African American governor in U.S. history…means a great deal to our students, who are graduating, to their families and to those watching via live stream to see history.”

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I would also like to do leadership and mentoring. … For the future, she envisions working to assist other similar institutions in areas of innovation. “I I definitely want to be a resource to other presidents and other institutions,” Fox said. “I

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The academy has partnered with the Stuyvesant High School Honors Society — Stuyvesant is a highly selective public high school — and other outlets to provide academic support and mentoring. There are also chess lessons each week as well as music and art. Information is provided on how to apply to New York City’s elite public high schools.

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We place people anywhere from UBS (financial services) to someone who decided to take a risk and start a business through our Center for Entrepreneurship where they were mentored,” he says. Hardin also notes that Miami is an entrepreneurial city, so many students are attracted to start-ups and starting their own businesses. “We

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“We have focused multiple resources on programs that bring together three critical factors for retention and success: 1) connection to one or more faculty and staff members as mentors or coaches, 2) wrap-around services that provide students a variety of support systems, and 3) programming that develops students’ sense of future goals and potential,” (..)

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“Danielle is not just someone who resides in the ivory tower and does her little research projects, but she takes what she understands about political processes and political behavior, and she applies that to the community she lives in," says Chávez, praising Clealand's commitment to mentoring.

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