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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

“If we train mentors to know about the resources on campus, know about housing, life, and other offices, then they can give that information to their mentees. Vanessa Ford, senior university director at the Mentor Collective, said peer mentorship works. “It Vanessa Ford, senior university director at the Mentor Collective.

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OCTOBER 2, 2024

Layered mentoring where older students mentor younger ones, enhancing their own sense of belonging. Fostering a sense of belonging by cultivating a supportive community and strong peer relationships. Monthly professional development workshops to build essential skills.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Throughout the 2022-2023 academic year the scholars in their respective Higher Education Administration/Student Affairs master’s programs will fully emerge in their academic programs along with professional development, mentoring, and a research study on graduate student identity and The Black Lives Matter movement.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Video 4 (“Digging Deep”) illuminates struggles faced by some Black male college and graduate students in STEM fields and highlights the uplifting power of peer support and faculty mentoring. Finally, Video 5 (“Of Triumph and Perseverance”) offers an illustration of a Black male success story.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

educational leadership & policy analysis, University of Wisconsin-Madison Career mentors: Dr. Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Dr. Alberta M. Another is “Culturally Responsive Mentoring: a Psychosociocultural Perspective on Sustaining Students of Color Career Aspirations in STEM,” which she is co-authoring.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

Others in his native Pearidge community of Canton, Georgia, mentored, encouraged, and bestowed in him a tenacity that guided him through college and global, cross-cultural experiences into his career as a professor. McMickens completed his bachelor’s degrees in sales and marketing and business administration from Tuskegee University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Mentoring is not a stronghold of a lot of primary investigators, and the lack of mentoring puts a lot of pressure on people who are already pressured. At PSU, he ran a mentoring program and worked with 15 different mentees at any given time, he says. You see pressure across the board, regardless of race or gender.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Mentorship Part of the grant’s funds will be used to replicate a peer mentoring program that already exists on UConn’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program. It will also be hiring a full-time program coordinator to help manage the grant’s efforts.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

A panel titled, “Diversifying the Future of the Profession: On Mentoring, Mattering & Movements,” was moderated by Dr. Terrell L. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. Mentoring remains one of the most viable and critical tools for professional development.” That’s what mentoring is all about.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

Bazan — whose term begins July 1, soon after the official transition to the new name of Union Adventist University — brings a long legacy of supporting and mentoring students, university leaders, and local church constituents. Yamileth Bazan will become the 30th president of Union College in Lincoln, Nebraska.

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APRIL 24, 2024

He appreciated the impact that peer mentors had on him and became a peer advisor as a sophomore. Chris Morphew, dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Education, on which mentor Timothy Huang and mentee Jeevika Setzer discussed their experiences. Mentors go through a week of training prior to new student orientation.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

SCSC initiative builds on Sloan’s University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) program, now concluding. That program aimed to bolster student success in graduate study through a combination of fellowship support, strong mentoring, and student-centered professional development.

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OCTOBER 27, 2024

However, being asked to return as a mentor each year since 2018 without being pregnant again has shown me that those tears were much more than a hormone-induced reaction. “As a proud member of the very first ELEVATE cohort in 2015, I had very few expectations. How to achieve tenure and publishing assistance is also on the agenda.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

They play a vital role in contributing both their job opportunities and their experiences as mentors, opening new paths for successful lives and careers for our students.” The center will provide personalized advising, mentoring, opportunities, and resources for various career pathways to Brown’s undergraduates, Ph.D.

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DECEMBER 12, 2022

The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region.

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JULY 9, 2024

The absence of African American male role models and mentors in the spaces of higher education and professional settings who can provide guidance and inspiration further exacerbates this issue.

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JUNE 18, 2024

It provides $200,000 annually over five years for the initiative based on wrap-around support (coaching, mentoring, and scholarships) through the Future Connect Scholarship Program. The gift was made by Tenfold Senior Living founder and principal Brigid Flanigan.

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JUNE 30, 2024

I see teaching and mentoring as an essential part of being a physician,” said Littles. My own mentors were instrumental in helping me become a successful physician, and it is gratifying to pay it forward to the next generation.” New doctors and physician assistants have so much to learn.

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OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sloan Foundation Scholars Program will gather at the 31st annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. Scholars affiliated with the SREB-State Doctoral Program and seven other scholarship programs, including the Alfred P.

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MARCH 13, 2024

The award highlights an individual who has demonstrated a sustained commitment to advancing women in higher education through initiatives enhancing leadership and career development, campus climate, and mentoring.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The report notes that the implementation of peer mentoring, paid work-based learning, building partnerships for intentional and inclusive hiring, and elevating career services and DEIB (diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging) to be organizational priorities. This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2024

The University of Utah Reading Clinic, housed in the College of Education, will provide opportunities for the cohort to “serve as tutors and mentors for other incarcerated students hoping to pursue higher education at Davis Technical College or Salt Lake Community College, according to Dr. Frankie Laanan, dean of Utah’s College of Education.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

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. Topics in chemistry and physics are particularly abstract, quantitative and laden with unfamiliar jargon.

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APRIL 10, 2024

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

These include offering standardized mentorship programs for all students — plus factoring the time faculty members spend mentoring into their workloads and promotion prospects — and providing scholarships targeted at candidates who face disadvantages in developing their higher education careers. Both Burt and Patton Davis agree that most U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Although contingent faculty may be equally good teachers as tenured faculty, their positions might limit them as mentors for students of color. Gershenson and Griffin agreed that white faculty also need better training to teach and mentor an increasingly diverse student body. Gershenson advocated for additional guest speakers of color.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. mathematics education Career mentors: Dr. Dan Battey, Rutgers University; Dr. Ilana Horn, Vanderbilt University; and Dr. Nicole M. mathematics, Rutgers University; Ed.M., mathematics education; and Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 17, 2023

I have benefitted greatly from having mentors, and I pay that forward when I can,” Coley said. “I I owe gratitude to my mentors and supporters, especially those who saw potential in me that I never imagined. She has also been on the Los Angeles Business Journal’s “LA500 – The Most Influential People in L.A” list since 2018. “I

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MAY 29, 2024

He is not only expanding access for students at William Paterson, [but] he is serving as a mentor to the future leaders of higher education and challenging all of us to rethink systems that create barriers for underrepresented populations in higher education and beyond.”

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AUGUST 17, 2023

It includes support for academic and non-academic challenges via an OMD program coordinator; life skills training; a mentor; and financial support up to $1,000 a year for students who meet expectations. And the mentor is there to give advice, wisdom, and encouragement, said Sohoni and Malcom X President David A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes leadership and mentorship in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. Olivas, was a friend, colleague, and mentor. “He Johnson said he was touched by the award because its namesake, Michael A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2024

SCSC initiative builds on Sloan’s University Centers for Exemplary Mentoring (UCEM) program, now concluding. That program aimed to bolster student success in graduate study through a combination of fellowship support, strong mentoring, and student-centered professional development.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2023

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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APRIL 26, 2024

He served as a mentor at Cedar Ridge Elementary and spent time volunteering with Playing 4 Hope, MU Children’s Hospital, Mizzou Athletics Kids Camp and Habitat for Humanity as well as other organizations. The Columbia branch of the NAACP recognized him with the appreciation award for community service.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Dr. Lynn Mahoney “We have been tracking the effectiveness of numerous programs, including peer mentoring and learning communities as well as student progress to graduation,” says SFSU president Dr. Lynn Mahoney. In Fall 2022, our first faculty mentor pairings were made,” says Ben Telesca, vice president for student affairs, SRSU.

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