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The Slow but Steady Rise of Women in Higher Education Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. I dont really have fears, Whitaker told The Catalyst, an independent student newspaper at Colorado College.

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A Scholar Who is ‘Extending the Hand as He Climbs’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mentoring is not a stronghold of a lot of primary investigators, and the lack of mentoring puts a lot of pressure on people who are already pressured. At PSU, he ran a mentoring program and worked with 15 different mentees at any given time, he says. You see pressure across the board, regardless of race or gender.

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Cal State Fullerton Gets $1.4M for Career Pathways Projects

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The outcome is bad for students and industries alike: a lack of social mobility and a lack of qualified workers. million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. Cal State Fullerton’s share of the money will fund six projects designed to prepare students to work in in-demand areas.

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Boldly Future Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As we are preparing our students for skills in artificial intelligence, we know that by 2030 there will be new positions that we don’t even know what they’re called at this point, but we want our students to be ready.” A&T’s Interdisciplinary Waste Management Institute (WMI), has taught more than 12,000 students.

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