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JUNE 30, 2024

As dean, she will oversee a college with a robust research and teaching portfolio spanning nine regional campuses and training sites for third and fourth-year medical and physician assistant students. “I I see teaching and mentoring as an essential part of being a physician,” said Littles.

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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 17, 2024

Using an interdisciplinary approach, Leyva’s research explores how interlocking systems of power, including racism and cisheteropatriarchy, impact classroom teaching and student support in undergraduate mathematics and STEM higher education. Leyva teaches and mentors undergraduate and graduate students. Congrats, colleagues!”

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AUGUST 15, 2024

The presence of Black educators not only serves to motivate and inspire Black students but also enriches the learning environment for all students by bringing diverse perspectives and teaching styles that foster a more inclusive and engaging educational experience. In the fall semester, 66.67% of the students had GPAs between 3.6

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OCTOBER 15, 2024

Because many postdocs transition into positions that involve teaching, communication and mentoring, effective education in these areas should be the standard.” million collaborative grant from the NSF will support a new research focus for the St.

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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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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. Neither does teaching.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. in political science from Binghamton University and secured a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2018. When he is not teaching, Mark is running URI’s Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Pardis Mahdavi For this alliance officials deemed transformative, the university plans to extend its educational offerings to A2MEND students, advisors, and mentors through the introduction of the Partnership Award.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

health psychology, East Carolina University Career mentors: Dr. Jeannie Golden, East Carolina University; Dr. Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin. “I I love my teaching.

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JANUARY 25, 2024

political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. in political science from Binghamton University and secured a tenure-track teaching position at the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 2018. When he is not teaching, Mark is running URI’s Center for Nonviolence & Peace Studies.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez’s life is a living example of the importance of mentors in higher education. million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. He did not have mentors until he propelled himself back to college at age 32.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Although Childs is proud of his research, he is quick to point out that one of his highest honors was receiving the first place Physics Teaching GTA Award in fall 2017. “I I was teaching three different physics laboratory sections with 33 to 34 students each,” he recalled. So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López is an educator whose purpose is not just to teach but to support students. But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. Through and through. Dr. Ruth M. Her career as a teacher and an administrator spans middle school, high school, and now higher education.

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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 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

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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JANUARY 12, 2024

Faculty Fellowship Award will recognize the growth and promise of outstanding underrepresented in medicine (URiM) psychiatrists while also encouraging mentoring for junior and mid-career psychiatric faculty. Bell is also an advocate for underrepresented minority psychiatrists training and teaching others. “He

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

He appreciated the impact that peer mentors had on him and became a peer advisor as a sophomore. I also worked as a study consultant, where I was able to empower some of my peers by teaching them effective study strategies and time management scheduling.” Mentors go through a week of training prior to new student orientation.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2022

It also doubles the $700 professional development fund adjuncts have for work expenses and bans full-time faculty from taking some of part-time professors’ pay when co-teaching, according to union officials.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 20, 2024

The institutions are combining their talents to create a 12-week certification course that will teach students how to use and sell medical devices. It goes beyond teaching concepts, and theory and procedures, they act as a mentor to help students understand how to set themselves up for success in the industry,” said Allen.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

The CSUEB Pathfinders Institute is dedicated to enhancing culturally relevant professional development through an intensive two-week program for faculty teaching critical first-year courses. In Fall 2022, our first faculty mentor pairings were made,” says Ben Telesca, vice president for student affairs, SRSU.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Glenn Gilyot Institution:  University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate Program:   Chemistry PhD , Graduate Minor: College Teaching , Graduate Certificate: Science Outreach Education:  Xavier University of Louisiana, Chemistry B.S. Mentors:  Candace Lawrence, PhD (Xavier University of Louisiana); Timothy Glass, Ph.D.

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Steve Keating

JULY 14, 2024

So I suggested that if you find yourself with the opportunity to lead, you shouldn’t wait for your company, organization, or anyone else to teach you to lead. You could benefit from a mentor, coach, or close friend to help you strategize your way through whatever situation you’re dealing with. Then work on them EVERY SINGLE DAY.

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JULY 5, 2023

Operations Research, Georgia Institute of Technology Mentors: Dr. Alan Erera and Dr. Alejandro Toriello, H. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P. He is really interested in learning how he stays connected — boots on the ground — with the students he will be teaching.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Diversity in representation not only enriches the educational experience but also provides necessary role models and mentors who understand and can empathize with the unique obstacles faced by students from underrepresented populations. The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.

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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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Throughout her career, she continues to teach and she also serves as a mentor to several generations of students.” For now, Patterson-Stephens says that she appreciates the many opportunities that she has to mentor students and help her alma mater advance forward. “I Patterson-Stephens serves on the MCT board of directors.

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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

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

And so, what you have to do is other stuff, put yourself in a holding pattern, don't teach controversial courses. Faculty of color are hyper-aware that they are often automatic role models for students of color and, as such, feel a greater obligation to support them,” the report said. “And The report makes a number of recommendations.

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Castleton Trio

MAY 8, 2020

She participated in the Rotaract Club, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship, and mentoring programs at Castleton Elementary School. She also found a part-time job mentoring students with disabilities through the College Steps program. This winter, as a TRIO Program Assistant, she oversaw a team of financial literacy mentors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Davis-Lowe researches STEM diversity, higher education, educational policy and teaching methods. Title: Assistant Vice President, Educational Partnerships, Valencia College Davis-Lowe currently serves as assistant vice president for partnerships for educational equity at Valencia College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Others are teaching information literacy by having students fact-check bots’ responses to research questions.

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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

MAY 15, 2024

He is also a teaching assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences’ music department, intentionally merging his Hip Hop self with his college advisor self. Livingston credits mentors for reminding him to continue cultivating his connections to Hip Hop and higher education. “For

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