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. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Now, I try to give back.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Access to sports Growing up in Brooklyn, New York, Nzingha Prescod initially didn’t see many sports options, but at age 8 she found her way to The Peter Westbrook Foundation, which offered fencing to New York City kids. It also seeks to improve access to quality education for kids in under-resourced communities. years at St.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

While t ransfer pathways can offer students like Coleen an affordable and accessible route to earning a four-year degree, they too often fall short of delivering on this promise. 2009, October). For every 100 students who enroll in community college, 31 percent transfer to a four-year institution and just 14.6 xiii Wang, X.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

Chancellor Reyes stressed the importance of understanding just how much work a top leadership position can be: "The more we provide people access to what this lifestyle is, what this job entails, the more you will be having people that can come in completely knowing this is and wanting to immerse themselves and give themselves to it.

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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. And it is that mission of access, opportunity, and forward-looking change that helps us stay focused on our work.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 1, 2024

In her professional life, President Sacks collects mentors whose leadership skills or strengths have impressed her and whom she can always count on for advice. Prior to these positions, she was Assistant Provost at Colorado Community College System from January 2009 to December 2016. That was formative.” Dr. Sacks holds a Ph.D.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Moving into higher education, I had a supervisor and mentor, Mary Hendrix , Vice President of Student Access and Success at Texas A&M University Commerce. He has won three National Awards for Education Reporting from the Education Writers Association, including one for a 2009 series of Inside Higher Ed articles on college rankings.

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