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Scholar Who Creates Inclusive Spaces - Dr. Melva Treviño Peña

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What I’m really interested in is people’s experiences with the environment, particularly environmental change, and documenting how they navigate these changes,” Treviño Peña says. Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A.,

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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Mentorship Part of the grant’s funds will be used to replicate a peer mentoring program that already exists on UConn’s main campus in Storrs, Connecticut. We know that there are certain issues that we want to tackle in the mentoring program. It will also be hiring a full-time program coordinator to help manage the grant’s efforts.

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Colleges Look to Cluster Hires Amid Diversity Hostilities

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Steele describes going to conferences with few sessions centering on Black women and having trouble finding mentors. “We And by providing support, mentoring, and a ready-made network of peers, clusters can help minoritized faculty avoid burnout and stay in their roles. The experience was isolating.

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Stop Cooling Out the Next Generation’s Aspirations

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That animals avoid environments which seem unhealthy due to predators or poor conditions is a well-documented ecological phenomenon. Take care with formal and informal advice-giving and mentoring. Humans are no different. We, too, instinctively avoid environments that look unhealthy or unwelcoming.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

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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.

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Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves: Living Life on Purpose

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Another current project is a short film that will document the stories of women who have been part of the JCSU faculty and staff for over 30 years. Lima-Neves uses social media as a teaching tool and tries to get her students more involved on Twitter. Exploring these new avenues of political organizing inspires her each day.

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A 40th Anniversary Love Story: About My Favorite Magazine

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As I read the compelling, incredibly alarming article, I didn’t see myself, my fraternity brothers, and several of the Black men I was mentoring at IU at the time represented.