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Emerging Scholars Express Hope, Validation, and Drive During Webinar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To accompany the release of its 2024 Emerging Scholars magazine edition, Diverse hosted its first-ever panel for the 15 outstanding scholars it recognized this year. Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My The panel was moderated by Dr. Jamal Watson.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Timothy Alvarez’s life is a living example of the importance of mentors in higher education. million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. He did not have mentors until he propelled himself back to college at age 32. Adjustments were made.

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Dr. Dara N. Byrne: Leveraging Public Higher Education for the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Students enroll in one of eight senior CUNY colleges, taking most courses at their home campuses where they have access to the campus honors lounge. The racial gap in graduation rates is minimal. There is the pooling of knowledge,” she says.

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Thriving and Flourishing While Black and a Student: What can PWIs do?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It also means having access to resources and support services that can help them succeed. Have access to mentors and role models who can help them succeed. We believe it means that they can: • Feel safe and supported on campus. This means students can be themselves without fear of discrimination or harassment.

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Those barriers lead to a lack of access to quality education for our minority students and students from disadvantaged backgrounds.” It sponsored a cohort of faculty to participate in an ESCALA program with an eye toward closing the gap in educational access and success for Latinx students. Claflin is starting its program summer 2023.

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