College Planners of America

MAY 9, 2024

A student could spend their precious college years losing friends, mentors, coaches, and campus jobs. Many public systems have never fully recovered from heavy cuts made to their budgets during the Great Recession of 2009-10. Not to mention the high cost of losing credits in unplanned transfers. This is not a far-fetched scenario.

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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

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. He was a senior faculty member who told me you have to remember that it's not about science.

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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. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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The University Innovation Alliance

DECEMBER 1, 2023

For example, a colleague and mentor at the University of Georgia told me, ‘You're going to be the next head of psychology here.’ How to Thrive in the Small World of Higher Ed In the culture of higher ed leadership, advice and mentoring are among the most important gifts given and received. I hadn't thought about it.’

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The University Innovation Alliance

MARCH 15, 2023

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. Be the chancellor. Your institutions need you to be a chancellor that will continue to make decisions.'

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COE

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Then, in 2009, we embarked on our journey into space, participating in the second-to-last mission to the International Space Station, effectively completing its construction.  In STS-128, aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery, we launched on August 28, 2009, embarking on a 14-day mission to the International Space Station.

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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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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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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

She is a 2017 Cohort Fellow for the Thomas Lakin Institute for Mentored Leadership and was featured in the December 2017 issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Willis is a 2018 recipient of the American Association for Women in Community Colleges’ “40 Under 40” Award. She earned a Ph.D.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 6, 2023

She's consulted for years with a leadership coach and four mentors, and she mindfully embraces a rhythm of self-care: "Every meeting that I am in, that individual expects me to be at my very best. And to be at my best, I must take care of myself. He began his career as a news clerk at The New York Times.

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