Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

students, teaching these BD Fellows career readiness skills and self-efficacy to excel in their respective fields. The culturally reflective mentoring will fill a critical gap in how universities meet the needs of all doctoral students by advancing retention practices and building social capital.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The report, titled “Unblocking the Pipeline: Supporting the Retention, Progression and Promotion of Black Early-Career Academics,” was the culmination of a monthslong survey of Black ECAs by the Higher Education Policy Institute, a U.K. Neither does teaching. think tank. Both Burt and Patton Davis agree that most U.S.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This lack of representation has long been blamed as a pipeline problem — that there are fewer women receiving STEM PhDs and therefore fewer candidates to teach. 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

The framework encourages decisionmakers to set data goals for implementing programs and practices and measuring impact that reflects change to the access, retention, completion, and/or workforce statistics for the employee and student groups. Pierce College (WA) is revamping its faculty hiring and tenure process.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

The nation’s public schools lost 7% of their teaching force between 2019 and 2021, and 4% of all teaching positions in the nation’s public schools were unfilled as of last fall. Mildred García Simultaneously, the nation’s teaching force ( 80% white ) should better reflect public school enrollment ( 55% students of color ).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

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. One secret of our program’s exponential growth is retention,” says Espiritu.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Financial aid, retention, and faculty/staff representation are part of the Seal,” says Dr. Deborah Santiago, co-founder and CEO of Excelencia in Education, who says she is delighted to see institutions with intentional practices actively working toward increasing Latino representation in key positions. Hawkins Jr. Hawkins, Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From December 2016 to July 2022, when she left to begin her new position, she served as associate provost for undergraduate retention and dean of undergraduate studies. They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Wood — whose research focuses on racial equity in education — saw an opportunity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

They impact student performance and retention.” They have done that often with the support of the professionals who work in those offices who helped to teach them and develop their activism. Some institutions even started shutdowns at the start of the academic year. “We It used to be underground.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university. Throughout her career, she continues to teach and she also serves as a mentor to several generations of students.” She also prioritized the development of the Queer/Trans Alliance, a newly developed affinity space for faculty and staff.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

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. Engaging with students was fulfilling, but Watford says she realized teaching was not her calling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

She also encourages nurses of color she meets at various events and offers to mentor individuals who are considering entering academia. She says employers need to create conditions that support recruitment and retention. Some nursing schools have implemented outreach programs to high schools.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

In terms of retention, Carter says hiring supportive faculty is a huge component. “We 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. underrepresented minorities. Online, 18.1%

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

They also have something they can teach, instead of having to earn money with a minimum wage job.” 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 reading and nutrition workshops.

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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

JANUARY 22, 2025

When he was accepted and assigned Ladson-Billings as his mentor, it proved to be a match made in heaven. His work delves into crucial questions about retention, working conditions, and the importance of allowing Black teachers to maintain their autonomy and cultural teaching practices. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

Retention – Proactive and Triage. When institutions create first-year experience programs, they are creating foundations for future success and retention potential. Teaching students about digital identity and presence is fast-becoming a programmatic necessity for career services offices. Employability. High Tech, High Touch.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. Teacher Preparation Programs must implement culturally responsive strategies to recruit and retain Black males into teaching. Dr. Erik M.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Academic Affairs is this incredible infrastructure for research, for teaching. Chancellor Reyes told us that his mandate was much different: "The president, as well as other mentors that knew that I was considering being the interim, they said, 'If you're going to do this, don't be the interim. I think it's very valuable.

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EAB

APRIL 26, 2023

Use student employment as a retention strategy Many younger students already need to balance work and academics. They made the information more accessible by creating videos to teach their peers how to pay or register for classes. This allows students to choose the course format that makes the most sense for them.

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Believe in Students

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The panel’s theme was a research paper written by the president of The Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice, Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab titled, “Teaching the students we have versus the students we want.” Academics throw around words like retention or feeder institution and expect that everyone in the room will know what they mean.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. In addition to running the center, I also lecture on campus I teach a couple of different classes. We've been doing that one for five years now.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

Now in 2023, issues with academic readiness and social isolation are having meaningful impacts on retention and student success, including an entirely new phenomenon – “move-in melt.” Several partners have shared anecdotes of students arriving to campus, moving into dorms, and abruptly withdrawing upon re-entering more social settings.

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Clair Kamp Dush

MAY 10, 2018

Dear students, The science of learning has identified many study strategies that can increase retention and comprehension, yet most college professors rarely talk about these strategies. If you find that this is a problem, try showing your writing center mentor this article , and ask for basic help. Or, read some books on writing.

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COE

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Nearly one million low-income and disabled students receive college access and retention services through COE member colleges annually. The Federal TRIO Programs aid students in overcoming economic, social, academic, and cultural barriers to higher education.

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