Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2023

Not all students go on to find mentors like I did. In a recent survey from MENTOR, a national nonprofit that advocates and provides resources for mentoring, Generation Z students reported having fewer mentors than older generations. Horus Hernandez is KIPP alum.

Mentoring 246

Mentoring Scholarship Success Students 246

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2025

When Breeden first arrived on campus, she was searching for a sense of belonging and found that and more as she navigated toward a calling to transform student affairs, advance equity, and reimagine the relationship between universities and Black communities.

Higher education 263

Higher education Education Student affairs Mentoring 263

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The benefit for me is that I had really great mentors who just really encouraged me and provided me with opportunities to explore. Continually going back to that same campus was ideal because I still was able to connect with mentors and faculty and staff and it really just nurtured my journey in higher education, she says.

Mentoring 298

Mentoring Higher education Leadership development Faculty 298

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2025

Urban Education Policy, University of Southern California Career mentors: Dr. Alicia Dowd, Pennsylvania State University; Dr. Leslie Gonzales, University of Arizona; Dr. Julie Posselt, Dr. Royel Johnson and Dr. Estela Bensimon, University of Southern California. Psychology, San Diego State University; M.A.,

Higher education 336

Higher education Equity Education Faculty 336

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

There are 31 different BMI programs, but each has the same overall goals: increase the enrollment and matriculation, retention, GPA, and graduation rate of underrepresented students. As a student, [the program] did help. There is institutional commitment to looking at financial support for students unable to pay tuition.

Success 291

Success Mentoring Student affairs Retention 291

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. They want to work with students who have similar backgrounds and experiences. They want to work with students who have similar backgrounds and experiences.

Faculty 291

Faculty Grant writing Mentoring Teaching 291

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. Dr. Brittany Williams, an assistant professor of higher education and student affairs administration at the University of Vermont (UVM), always had a knack for Dr. Brittany Williams learning.

Scholarship 297

Scholarship Student affairs Higher education Mentoring 297

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Brown, is to advance Latino student success in higher education by promoting Latino student achievement, conducting analysis to inform educational policies and advancing institutional practices. There must be deliberate and continuous assessment to identify and implement strategies that improve Latino student achievement.

Retention 325

Retention Mentoring Financial aid Grant 325

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

His journey to the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he would eventually become both student and professor, was equally serendipitous. When he was accepted and assigned Ladson-Billings as his mentor, it proved to be a match made in heaven. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

Education 290

Education Instruction Curriculum Mentoring 290

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2025

physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S.,

Collaboration 312

Collaboration Mentoring Teaching Faculty 312

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. Similarly, Hispanic students earned 12% of STEM bachelors degrees, despite comprising 15% of all bachelors degree recipients (Pew Research Center).

Student success 178

Student success Success Students Tutoring 178

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 7, 2025

While mentoring provides valuable guidance, she argues that women in higher education need presidents who can create and provide concrete opportunities that prepare them for the presidency. I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College.

Educational leadership 289

Educational leadership Higher education Leadership Education 289

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2025

California's community colleges find themselves caught in a 60-year-old funding constraint that increasingly hampers their ability to serve todays students, according to a new report from the Community College League of California. In 1961, college students were predominantly white, traditional-age students who attended full-time.

Student success 163

Student success Community college Success Instruction 163

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 12, 2025

million students. I would not be here without mentors and allies who saw in me what I didnt always see in myself. Now, I see mentorship as reciprocala process where both mentor and mentee learn and grow. I understand firsthand the challenges students face because I have lived them.

Mentoring 234

Mentoring Leadership Higher education Community college 234

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2025

Cruzado, who will assume the role on July 1, brings a deeply personal connection to the land-grant university mission, having begun her higher education journey as a first-generation college student at the University of Puerto Rico at Mayagez. The university has achieved record retention rates and a 61% increase in four-year graduation rates.

Grant 291

Grant Higher education Leadership Retention 291

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. Before DukeLIFE, peer-to-peer mentorship had been implemented at Duke before, but the program’s execution did not appeal to many students.

Low income student 303

Low income student First generation Mentoring University 303

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 19, 2023

“I was teaching three different physics laboratory sections with 33 to 34 students each,” he recalled. He said none of his 100 students dropped his physics classes. I’m pretty proud of that fact because a lot of students do drop physics,” he added with a chuckle. So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring.

Mentoring 189

Mentoring Teaching Higher education Leadership 189

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Dr. Moores influence extends far beyond his own accomplishment, said Jackson, who has known Moore since their days as graduate students and have collaborated with him on a number of initiatives and projects, including the International Colloquium on Black Males in Education.

STEM education 334

STEM education Leadership Inclusion Higher education 334

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Aikin Regents Endowed Chair at The University of Texas at Austin, he mentored hundreds of administrators who went on to leadership positions at community colleges across the country. But Bumphus maintains that the real measure of success lies in the millions of students who have benefited from community college education during his tenure.

Community college 262

Community college Leadership Higher education Mentoring 262

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

As a professor, she prepares health science students to address systemic inequities through empathy, understanding occupational injustices, and recognizing how power dynamics shape healthcare outcomes. She says that she aims to help students recognize how power, equity, and inclusion shape healthcare outcomes.

Therapist 287

Therapist Inclusion Equity Mentoring 287

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 18, 2024

Brigid Flanigan The Portland Community College Foundation has received a $1 million gift pledge to launch the college’s First-Year Experience initiative, benefitting historically underserved students. The gift was made by Tenfold Senior Living founder and principal Brigid Flanigan.

First generation 291

First generation Scholarship Curriculum Students 291

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Cardona spoke about his experience as an undergraduate student. Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. On Wednesday, the U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

Mental health 292

Mental health Advising Education Mentoring 292

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 23, 2024

students will convene next week in New Orleans. Sloan Foundation Scholars Program will gather at the 31st annual Institute on Teaching and Mentoring. The nation's largest gathering of underrepresented Ph.D. Scholars affiliated with the SREB-State Doctoral Program and seven other scholarship programs, including the Alfred P.

Teaching 297

Teaching Mentoring Scholarship Students 297

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

A growing body of research has shown that race-matched instruction—when teachers and learners come from the same background—is beneficial for students. College students have been shown to be likelier to pass courses with race-matched instructors, likelier to receive higher grades in those courses, and likelier to persist in school.

Instruction 318

Instruction Mentoring Students Faculty 318

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

When these students join in problem-solving with professionals, their chances for advancement increase, along with self-efficacy. Role models/mentors. Such interactions and connections offer role models for these students to see that they are not alone. Self-reflect. Dr. Carter G.

Education 308

Education Mental health Counseling Humanities 308

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2025

Across the country, community colleges and universities are seeing fewer students enroll, a trend that could have long-term consequences for both individuals and the economy. A shrinking student population means fewer trained workers entering key industries, bringing about economic decline as the demographic cliff continues to grow.

Higher education 232

Higher education Education Mental health Faculty 232

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Two Spelman College students have been selected as Schwarzman Scholars , one of the world’s most prestigious graduate fellowships. The students will also have access to internships, mentors, high-profile speakers, and career development resources. .

Students 291

Students Mentoring Access Accessibility 291

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 15, 2025

University of California, Irvine (Civil and Environmental Engineering) Career mentors: Dr. Stephen Mattingly, UTA; Dr. Melanie Sattler, UTA Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty: Stay resilient and persistent. Title: Associate Professor Tenured: Yes Age: 40 Education: B.S Aim for steady progress.

Access 277

Access Accessibility Equity Faculty 277

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Diversifying representation sends a signal to students, faculty, and other stakeholders that leadership is attainable, and education serves as a gateway to socio-economic gains for communities and the citizens they serve. In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014).

Inclusion 265

Inclusion Leadership Community college Equity 265

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Kayon Hall wants to change the way academia thinks about undocumented students. Black and undocumented students are socially and politically left out of the conversation,” said Hall, an assistant professor of higher education administration at Kent State University in Ohio. Black undocumented students] are invisibilized.

Students 356

Students Higher education Inclusion Curriculum 356

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Over half of Asian students and nearly 40% of white students earn a college degree within eight years of high school graduation, while less than 20% of low-income, Black, or Latinx students reach the same milestone. For adult learners, who make up a significant portion of the student population, the challenges are distinct.

Equity 211

Equity Tutoring Mentoring First generation 211

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. Strayhorn, a professor at Illinois State University and included student affairs leaders—all board members of the Dr. Melvin C.

Student affairs 246

Student affairs Mentoring Retention Students 246

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

million grant from the state to support its Pell Grant-eligible and low-income students for four years. The funding will allow for the hiring of four new student support advocates, who will offer dedicated attention and guidance to these students as they pursue their degrees. Dr. Susan P.

Low income student 280

Low income student Grant University Mental health 280

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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.

Equity 279

Equity University Mentoring Students 279

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Across higher education, the desire for diversity among student populations is usually the responsibility of recruitment efforts but falls short in retention strategies. Colleges typically use a variety of assessments such as standardized tests, essays, and GPA to determine a student's readiness for life in academia.

Retention 313

Retention Students Scheduling Inclusion 313

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

sociology, emphasis in Black studies, University of California, Santa Barbara Career mentors: Christine Rodriguez, J.D., At the campus level, Gomez is faculty advisor for the student organization Semillas de Centro America, which seeks to sustain a supportive community for Central American students and community members.

Teaching 241

Teaching Facilitation Faculty Mentoring 241

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ja’Bette Lozupone Title: Director of Student Affairs, Montgomery College Age: 41 Education: B.A., But Lozupone wasn’t ready for the responsibility of being a college student. “I As founding director of the ASCEND Parent Initiative Task Force at Montgomery, Lozupone led efforts to identify student parents and understand their needs.

Students 246

Students Student affairs Communication Mentoring 246