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The Art of Mentoring: A Timeless Strategy for Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In today’s world of streaming, social media, and artificial intelligence, one timeless tool continues to change lives— mentoring. Mentoring has long been a personal passion of mine. Some individuals I didn’t even know I was mentoring have later told me, “I saw how you handled that,” or “Something you said made all the difference.”

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AASCU Selects 26 Higher Education Leaders for 2025 Millennium Leadership Initiative Cohort

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Established under the advisement of AASCU's African American member presidents, MLI specifically aims to prepare higher education leaders from traditionally underrepresented communities for the nation's top academic posts. The immersive experience includes direct mentoring relationships with sitting presidents and chancellors.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While MSIs play a key role in promoting faculty diversity by consistently employing more educators of color than other institutions, MSI faculty also face pressures, such as heavy teaching and advising loads, high expectations for research and publishing, and limited resources for career development.

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A Legacy of Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Unlike many of today’s emerging leaders, Bumphus didn’t have mentors who looked like him when he started. “I I unfortunately didn’t have any mentors when I started in the business that were leaders of color,” he tells Diverse. For emerging leaders in higher education, Bumphus advises: “Know who you are as a leader.

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Bridging Communities and Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While originally unplanned, Breedens introduction to student affairs came through the Multicultural Student Affairs Office and the African American Cultural Center, where she met mentors who would guide her trajectory in higher education. When I think about policy, I think about some of the basic things like Who has access to campus?

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In addition to support services that include financial aid and academic advising, an example of supporting Latinx student success is the CSUSB Impact Internship, developed by the university’s Undocumented Student Success Center. Morales, president of CSUSB. This is a paid, on-campus internship for undocumented students at CSUSB.

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How to Build a Strong Faculty and Staff Advising Partnership

Civitas Learning

In this episode of Next Practices , we meet three leaders who’ve helped transform advising from a series of disconnected conversations into a cross-campus partnership. That structure opened the door to deeper collaboration between academic programs and advising teams—anchored in clarity, consistency, and shared student goals.