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Student Affairs Professionals Gather to Discuss Future of the Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the goal of infusing scholarship into practice, thousands of student affairs practitioners from colleges and universities across the nation gathered in Boston to strategize about the future of the profession. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. That’s what mentoring is all about.”

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Temple University VP for Student Affairs Dr. Theresa A. Powell Dies

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Powell, Temple University’s Vice President for Student Affairs, has died unexpectedly on Jan. She will be missed and her legacy will guide Temple and the Division of Student Affairs long into the future." She was a mentor, an advisor, a guide, a mother figure, and a champion to so many people. Dr. Theresa A.

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

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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. Black male student veterans are not a monolithic population nor are the institutions they are attending. Dr. Erik M. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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Bazan Named Union College's Next President

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Bazan — whose term begins July 1, soon after the official transition to the new name of Union Adventist University — brings a long legacy of supporting and mentoring students, university leaders, and local church constituents. The values and mission are lived beautifully by the faculty, students, staff, and administration.

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The Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational (MCT) Foundation, Inc. Names 2022 MCT Scholars

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has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. Sean Robinson, faculty mentor) Delnita Evans ( Dr. C. Regina Gavin Williams, faculty mentor) Adorah Moore ( Dr. Tryan L.

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Examining Educational Equity in Leadership

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student affairs administration/higher education, Ball State University, Teachers College; Certificate, College and University Teaching, Ball State University, Teachers College; Ph.D., educational leadership and policy, University of Texas at Austin, College of Education Career mentors: Dr. Victor B.

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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 Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. A diversity strategy It’s an important method to diversify a professoriate that remains stubbornly white.

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