Scholarship America

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

They’re students like Yhan, whose pursuit of a combined medical and master’s of public health degree is both complicated and inspired by his diagnosis: “When I started college as a first-generation, low-income student in a city over a thousand miles from home, I expected to face new challenges.

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

She noted that her former boss, UC Riverside's chancellor Kim Wilcox , is now her peer, adding: "He's a great friend and mentor, but all the way along, I haven't thought about having a boss. When you're a faculty member, you're your own boss. We do that every day at universities. She earned her Ph.D.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Initially unfamiliar with the world of higher ed, President Stokes admitted that her leadership trajectory was unexpected: “I'm a first-generation student. For example, a colleague and mentor at the University of Georgia told me, ‘You're going to be the next head of psychology here.’

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