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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

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While mentoring provides valuable guidance, she argues that women in higher education need presidents who can create and provide concrete opportunities that prepare them for the presidency. The fall of 2023 saw a historic moment when six of the eight Ivy League presidents were women. college and university chief executives by 2030.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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As of fall 2023, 69% of the student population at CSUSB identified as Hispanic or Latino. In 2023, Cerritos adopted their Students First Framework, a homegrown initiative to provide strategies over the next decade to reach its goal of graduating more students in less time. “In Morales, president of CSUSB. years, compared to 4.2

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Researcher-Mentor Challenges Students to Pursue Purpose

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Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. Stoddard is the founding director of Rhodes' STEM Cohort Mentoring Program, a demonstration of her dedication to mentoring and teaching. She holds a Ph.D.

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Paradigm Shift: DEI, Anti-DEI, or Underrepresentation?

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In June 2023, the U. Supreme Court struck down race-consciousness in college admissions upending four decades of precedent and reshaping the landscape of higher education (Edelman, 2023, par. The presentation drew upon a study by Smalls (2023) focused on the experiences of African American community college trustees.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

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physics, Temple University Career mentors: Dr. A.J. Loves current focus is a web-based citizen science project called Name That Neutrino that she and her students created in 2023, seeking a multitude of volunteers to participate in the process. Title: Associate Teaching Professor, Drexel University Tenured: No Age: 40 Education: B.S.,

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CUNY’s Black Male Initiative Marks 20 Years of Success Amid National DEI Pushbacks

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Some of the programming is for prelaw [students] only, some for traditional undergraduates in mentoring, and some for currently incarcerated students. When Quash became director of the initiative in 2023, he set out to engage with the state. Three different populations. Now, we have over 8,000 students [in BMI programs.]

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

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From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively. “We CSUS has seen enrollment of full-time and part-time Latino students increase by 34% and 66%, respectively, from 2015 to 2023. This is a structural effort that we found innovative.

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