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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. In this chapter, best practices focused on the areas of advising, engagement, instruction, and programing will be discussed. Dr. Erik M.

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Data and Collaboration are the Key to Preserving Higher Ed’s Hard-Fought Equity Gains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This research showed significant increases in persistence for students who participated in tutoring programs and who received supplemental instruction. Overall, learners who engaged with academic advising services have experienced an 8.1 percentage point lift in persistence.

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National University Students Given Access to Work-Based Learning Via Online Platform

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Students are] actually working and collaborating on a regular cadence with these employers to build those connections, get that experience, [and] apply the learning, but also develop some of those professional skills.” We want to curate the co-curriculars and other experiences they could have that will be rich for them,” Milliron said. “The

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Community-Engaged Scholar Dr. DeLeon Gray Believes in the Value of Hyperlocal Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2018, Gray and his colleagues won the Best Article Award for a publication in Educational Psychologist, titled “Black and Belonging at School: A Case for Interpersonal, Instructional, and Institutional Opportunity Structures.” His friend advised him to show people what “Black and belonging” looked like.

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Design – from the starting line

The Advisor That Cares

I really do have an opportunity to revolutionize advising within my organization. Now, I get to build my course, my ubiquitous resource, my example of revolutionary advising for learner and advisor alike.

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The Advisor That Cares

The fact that I can connect with learners from various industries and worldwide illustrates how much technology can be employed to strengthen learning and collaboration. Professional journals from NACADA are my primary resource for finding emerging trends within advising. Another system tracks degree plan requirements and progress.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Waller does not come from an engineering background, but when he began studying for his master’s degree in counseling and human development, he found himself fascinated with engineering, which led him to Virginia Tech for his doctoral studies in curriculum instruction. His dissertation research was on the CEED summer programs.

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