Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 23, 2023

Florida's higher education law bans the state's public colleges and universities from spending federal and state money on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs or campus activities that advocate for DEI, with certain exceptions. Tallahassee Community College.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

There is tutoring and mentoring, and Espiritu designed a model in which second-year students mentor first-year students. This continues after graduation when students attending four-year institutions mentor second-year EPW students. Latino faculty at UTA closely mentor the students. As the Hispanic population in the U.S.

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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 Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. She was even told that she focused too much on race in a class about diversity. The experience was isolating.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

“We saw evidence that relationships were critical to fill in that missing variable to the completion and economic advancement equation,” said Michael Collins, JFF vice president and leader of JFF’s Center for Racial Economic Equity. “We This includes peer-to-peer mentoring as well as connection to alumni.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 7, 2023

Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee. Research revealed that all but one of these award-winning colleges had a board-influenced diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) mandate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. By being proactive with admissions, recruitment, and advising, however, we can reduce this risk. Humans are no different.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 1, 2024

“It wasn’t always easy to know where to go if I needed advice on what classes to take, what to declare for my major, how to get financial aid,” Cardona shared in a keynote at last week’s Attaining College Excellence and Equity Summit. Not knowing where to find guidance is a common challenge faced by many of today’s college students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

But even before she began teaching at the collegiate level in 2016, López taught and mentored youth. As an undergrad at The University of Texas at Austin, she worked with fellow classmates and friends to mentor middle school and high school students throughout Texas. I'm a first-generation student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. DeLeon Gray Gray is an associate professor of educational psychology and equity at North Carolina State University. To date, Gray has mentored over 100 students through Black and Belonging in Durham Public Schools. His friend advised him to show people what “Black and belonging” looked like.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne to bring her commitment to access and equity to a new area of public higher education. Justice and equity are driving forces in most everything I do.” Each scholar receives financial support for study abroad and specialized advisors through the Macaulay Advising Program. “I There is also an effort to increase equity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 5, 2024

With the $30 million gift came no advised direction, restrictions, nor stipulations, Boekelheide says, calling Scott’s donation a “windfall” and a “vote of confidence” in what PCC was doing. Two of the ongoing initiatives were Hostos’s Research Center and its Mentor/Mentee Jobs on Campus program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

By example, the counseling/advising unit uses an intrusive model, monitoring students’ progress and regularly checking in on them. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

In his role as provost faculty fellow, Smith advises and guides the design and direction of academic and student success initiatives. Smith Title: Associate Professor of Higher Education; Provost Faculty Fellow, University of Cincinnati Age: 39 Education: B.S., psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The university restructured to a centralized academic advising model for the first two years of college, ensuring that advising is consistent across all majors, particularly for the most vulnerable populations. CSUN has put an infrastructure in place for faculty and staff recruitment, including equity review officers.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

v To ensure stakeholders can answer important, equity-minded questions, policymakers should establish a student-level data network that connects data to illuminate student pathways and outcomes , especially for transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

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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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. In 2022 we tripled our subscribers, reaching far beyond the Alliance to engage and inspire those who share our values of equity, innovation, and collaboration.

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 13, 2024

By teaming up with Civitas Learning, SUNY Broome has adopted a holistic, data-activated strategy that allows them to connect the dots and see the complete student picture, instead of relying solely on their advising interactions. Analysis also uncovered specific minority populations that were disproportionately affected.

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EAB

AUGUST 9, 2023

Many tackled improving student success, retention, and equity at their institutions, while others focused on budget models and streamlining administrative processes. Note: The views and opinions in the blog post are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of EAB.

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The University Innovation Alliance

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

We released two new playbooks to assist leadership teams in their practices of proactive advising and college-to-career transition. In 2022 we tripled our subscribers, reaching far beyond the Alliance to engage and inspire those who share our values of equity, innovation, and collaboration.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So Let's Get Ready is a national near-peer mentoring organization. We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. Or a counselor to say, "Hey, what should I do about college advising?", So how do you see them working with students?

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The University Innovation Alliance

AUGUST 14, 2023

She noted that her former boss, UC Riverside's chancellor Kim Wilcox , is now her peer, adding: "He's a great friend and mentor, but all the way along, I haven't thought about having a boss. When you're a faculty member, you're your own boss. He was a senior faculty member who told me you have to remember that it's not about science.

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The University Innovation Alliance

MAY 8, 2024

Our most popular were Logic Models for Program Design and the Future of Advising. They mentor and supervise the UIA Fellows, convene campus student success teams, and ensure organizational accountability. Providing relevant content, as illustrated by the more than 800 lab downloads last year. Learn more about joining the Lab.

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The University Innovation Alliance

JUNE 9, 2023

She is a 2017 Cohort Fellow for the Thomas Lakin Institute for Mentored Leadership and was featured in the December 2017 issue of Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Dr. Willis began her educational career in 2007 teaching at Florida A&M University before transitioning to Tallahassee Community College. She earned a Ph.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2024

The Berkeley-based nonprofit organization promotes social equity through education, using a cradle-to-career reach across four distinct demographic groups. In 1993, he was a senior economic adviser in the Clinton presidential transition, responsible for housing and regulation of financial institutions. Gavin Newsom.

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EAB

JULY 11, 2023

EAB’s Wenie Lado is joined by Dr. Brian Peterson from the University of Pennsylvania where he teaches, advises students, and serves as the Director of Penn’s Makuu Black Cultural Center. So Makuu, we help to advise 30 plus different campus organizations on the undergrad side who are doing something connected to black culture.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Commodore said being hyper-visible also means that Black faculty members find themselves mentoring students of color outside of their department because there are no other faculty of color with whom students can identify and seek mentorship. Like many Black women academics, Commodore said she finds comfort in Black support communities.

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EAB

AUGUST 8, 2023

So they do outreach, we have done mentorship sessions where students, the participants, can sign up and attend these programs or attend a mentor session to further ask questions maybe about the application process or what student life's like if they come to the. And then just making sure that there are activities for them to do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Gerardo de los Santos said his father mentored numerous individuals and pushed them to get their doctorates.

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EAB

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Yet, students often see advising sessions as transactional activities synonymous with “course registration” and have inconsistent experiences due to the lack of overall structure. To combat these issues and increase student achievement, campus leaders must shift to a student-centered advising model.

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COE

JULY 17, 2023

Dr. Brown, an accomplished higher education professional and a passionate advocate for student equity, will assume his new role on August 14, 2023. Aaron Brown’s extensive experience and unwavering commitment to educational equity make him an ideal choice for the role of executive vice president.

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COE

JULY 12, 2024

. — The Council for Opportunity in Education (COE) announces today a pioneering partnership with NACADA: The Global Community for Academic Advising to develop an innovative credentialing opportunity designed specifically for higher education professionals, including TRIO staff and academic advisors.

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COE

AUGUST 9, 2024

Their dedication to educational equity, community service, and leadership is a powerful example of what TRIO alumni can achieve. Pollard , an alumna of the TRIO Student Support Services program at Iowa State University , is celebrated for her leadership and dedication to educational equity. DeRionne P.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

They also advise Active Minds national staff on student engagement, community building, program planning, Chapter engagement and management, National Conference planning, and program promotion. She even started her own nonprofit, Beyond Taiwan.

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The University Innovation Alliance

APRIL 6, 2023

She's consulted for years with a leadership coach and four mentors, and she mindfully embraces a rhythm of self-care: "Every meeting that I am in, that individual expects me to be at my very best. And to be at my best, I must take care of myself.

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COE

MAY 2, 2025

Its not enough to provide financial aidstudents also need academic guidance, mentoring, and personalized advising to stay on track. TRIO is the insurance policy for the Pell Grant, said Maureen Hoyler, COE Senior Advisor and past president.

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