Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

This double standard manifests in insidious ways: Overrepresentation in Service Work: We are disproportionately asked to lead diversity initiatives, serve on equity committees, and mentor students from historically excluded or systemically marginalized backgrounds. Jackson in Its Not Impostor Syndrome When Youre Black and a Woman.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Yet, while 64 nonprofit and for-profit colleges closed between 2020 and 2023, exacerbated by the pandemic and long-term enrollment declines, only four of these closures were HBCUs. Note, however, the size and prominence of all these HBCUs is certainly significant. There are 101 HBCUs in operation across the U.S.

Financial aid

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BOLD Leadership Network, headquartered in Greenville, S.C., provides community support and resources to advance equity and the opportunity for all students and communities to thrive.

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

When Dr. 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. Vanessa Ford, senior university director at the Mentor Collective, said peer mentorship works. “It

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We And by providing support, mentoring, and a ready-made network of peers, clusters can help minoritized faculty avoid burnout and stay in their roles. The experience was isolating. And an increasingly popular one.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 4, 2023

A panel titled, “Diversifying the Future of the Profession: On Mentoring, Mattering & Movements,” was moderated by Dr. Terrell L. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. Mentoring remains one of the most viable and critical tools for professional development.” That’s what mentoring is all about.”

Student affairs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 10, 2024

She also served as a department chair and interim associate dean in the College of Education and Integrative Studies as well as an associate vice president for student success. In 2016, she was responsible for the launch of the Office of Student Success at Cal Poly Pomona to focus our campus efforts as part of the CSU Graduation Initiative 2025.

Advising

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

From a sample of over 560,000 first year, first time community college students and over 32,000 instructors in Texas between 2013 and 2020, researchers found that 77% of white students experienced a racial match. Creating an opportunity for students to share their full selves in a mentoring space is important,” said Griffin. “I

Instruction

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. Chris Morphew, dean of Johns Hopkins University School of Education, on which mentor Timothy Huang and mentee Jeevika Setzer discussed their experiences. As of 2020, Johns Hopkins expanded this to a year-long program.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

population – according to 2020 U.S. Martin APA Task Force Report on Promotion, Tenure and Retention of Faculty of Color in Psychology details the many obstacles that psychological science faculty from underrepresented groups face, including being tasked with additional responsibilities, hostile work environments, and biased evaluations.

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. 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.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

workforce participation growth between 2010-2020, the report noted. One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. trillion, despite comprising only 19.1% of the U.S. population. And although they make up only 18.5% Additionally, their purchasing power of $3.4

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Since Fall 2020, there was a surge in applications and enrollments from India and countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. From Fall 2020 to Fall 2022, first-time enrollment for master’s and certificate programs that are remote-only decreased from 5,183 to 2,457. Another key point in the report is the shift in countries applying.

Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 3, 2024

Back in December of 2020, the foundation awarded the then-budding EPP a $745,000 24-month grant that allowed the team to build up and grow. The money will mostly go toward staffing – directors, program managers, academic advisers, and peer mentors – and student resources, such as books, school supplies, and transportation, Wheelock said.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

educational research and policy analysis (higher education), North Carolina State University Career mentors: Dr. Audrey “AJ” Jaeger, North Carolina State University; Dr. Jori Hall, University of Georgia; Dr. Tony Cawthon, Clemson University; Dr. Donald “DJ” Mitchell Jr., sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed.,

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Georgetown University Law Center Career mentors: Eloise Pasachoff, Georgetown University Law Center; Janel George, Georgetown University Law Center; Noah Zatz, UCLA School of Law; Dr. Laura Gomez, UCLA School of Law; and Ching Wen Rosa Yen, St. legal studies, St. John’s University; LL.M., UCLA School of Law; and J.D.,

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s a burgeoning industry, expected to grow 7% between 2020 and 2030. Participants will then return to their home districts and instruct students in multiple languages, including Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, and Khmer, the predominant language of Cambodia.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

Two of the ongoing initiatives were Hostos’s Research Center and its Mentor/Mentee Jobs on Campus program. The mentors] ensure that students are on-track academically, and also provide students with guidance and career development supports.” The 2023-24 school year saw 12 pilot initiatives implemented, Oviedo says.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

For example, in 2020, the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR) found that Black/African American employees comprise less than 10% of higher education professionals. Black university leaders had a deep desire to serve as the mentors and role models that many of them never had.

Faculty

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.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

They also have the option of working with a peer-mentor, which many reported to Ithaka S+R researchers helped them find both “community and connection.” “I First year Kessler Scholars receive transitional support that helps them navigate the change from high school to college, which has increased their likelihood to persist.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

Prestage, who taught at Southern University and was a renowned researcher, passed away in 2020). “I Lima-Neves says she has seen JCSU female faculty do research with a commitment to the communities they are writing about as well as a desire to include the students in the work and mentor them along the way, guiding them into graduate studies.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since 2020, ATD has partnered with the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center to create the Racial Equity Leadership Academy (RELA) , an intensive institute that supports teams of community college leaders as they develop strategic racial equity plans and consciously dismantle barriers to equity at their institutions.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies Emerita at Emory University, served as president in 2019-2020 and was followed by Dr. Shaun R. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

applied behavior analysis, Institute of Applied Behavioral Sciences, Endicott College; and postdoctoral fellow, Kennedy Krieger Institute and Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Career mentors: Dr. Caio Miguel, California State University, Sacramento, and Dr. Michael F. psychology, California State University, Sacramento; M.A.,

Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

Throughout the following 10 months, the fellows participated in meetings with their faculty mentors and optional monthly cohort-wide calls to discuss their progress. One of the fellows, Bowen Cho, had been attempting to complete their project since early 2020, but had struggled to find collaborators — as disabled scholars often do, they said.

Scheduling

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional. Sam Houston’s academic success center offers one-on-one tutoring and mentoring. The college also has two bilingual peer mentors.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2023

The campus closed in March 2020, but in June 2020 the new doctoral cohorts in physical and occupational therapy were due to arrive. I would also like to do leadership and mentoring. … Fox describes it as “phenomenally successful” with graduation rates around 90% and licensure pass rates near 100%.

Curriculum

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Prior to Valencia, Davis-Lowe served for more than 11 years at Oregon State University as director of The Science and Math Investigative Learning Experiences (SMILE) program, during which she accepted a Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring (PAESMEM).

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

HISPA has received several awards and recognitions for its impact, including the Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Mentoring in 2020. About 200 students attended each event. As HISPA advances its mission, Diaz-Claisse says she is grateful for the corporate partners and donors across the U.S.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

She arrived at the University of Florida in July 2020. Erika Moore Title: Rhines Rising Star Larry Hench Assistant Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida Age: 31 Education: B.S., biomedical engineering, The Johns Hopkins University; Ph.D.,

Humanities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

Her track record of mentoring diverse students culminated in being named Wesleyan University’s McNair Program faculty director in 2018. Taylor was awarded the Binswanger Prize for Excellence in Teaching for her passion and dedication to supporting the academic and personal development of all of her students.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2025

When he was accepted and assigned Ladson-Billings as his mentor, it proved to be a match made in heaven. Henry returned to Wisconsin in June 2020, amid the pandemic and social upheaval, but this time as a faculty member in the Leadership and Policy Analysis program. Political Science, Tulane University; Ph.D.,

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. 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.

Mentoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

mathematics, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Career mentors: Dr. Rafael H. And he was featured as the Mathematician for the Day in the 2020 calendar of Lathisms, Latinx and Hispanics in Mathematical Sciences. applied mathematics, Autonomous University of Aguascalientes, Mexico; M.S.,

Mathematics

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

xiii Services that build such a culture include mentoring opportunities, academic advising, faculty engagement, transfer orientation, transition programs, career counseling, and other steps to help students thrive. December 21, 2020). Covid-19 transfer, mobility, and progress: Fall 2020 final report. June 10, 2021).

Student success

Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As a sophomore, he was matched with a mentor from the University of Texas Long School of Medicine , who invited him to work with him on a project researching teen mental health. Jake learned about writing grant proposals to support the research, and the team received a $5,000 grant. The field took notice of the research project.

Mental health