Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Additionally, more than four dozen faculty will be V-FIRST mentors. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Tenured: No (tenure track) Age: 32 Education: B.A., criminology, law & society, University of California, Irvine; M.S., counseling, University of Wisconsin-Madison; and Ph.D., Dr. Cristobal Salinas Jr.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2023

The struggle to attract new teachers and diversify the teaching profession represents a massive national challenge — and an opportunity for the regional public universities that have traditionally produced the majority of the nation’s educators. With a combined enrollment of 1.9 But there’s more the federal government can do.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

The program is funded through a grant provided to the Dr. Melvin C. Terrell Educational Foundation, Inc is committed to providing support for African American, LatinX, and other underrepresented groups through scholarships, grants, and professional development. “I Sean Robinson, faculty mentor) Delnita Evans ( Dr. C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (N.C. A&T – is the longest serving chancellor in the University of North Carolina System and among the U.S.’s A&T has become one of the fastest growing universities in the U.S.; A&T) Chancellor Dr. Harold L. Martin, Sr., Dr. Harold L. billion economic impact.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

López "I've been in the classroom on and off, but I've been supporting youth and students in different ways throughout that time,” says López, who is starting a new chapter of her career as a tenured associate professor in educational leadership and policy in the University of Arizona College of Education. I'm a first-generation student.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 22, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, College of Engineering and Architecture, Howard University Tenured: No Age: 39 Education: B.A., architecture and visual studies, University of Pennsylvania; and M.A., Grant, professor and interim chairperson in the department of architecture at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Levon Esters Esters is currently the associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion and faculty affairs for Purdue University’s Polytechnic Institute and professor of agricultural sciences education. He is also director of the Mentoring@Purdue program and director of Cornell University’s Thomas Wyatt Turner Fellowship Program.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Fisheries, Animal, and Veterinary Sciences, University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 36 Education: B.A., international affairs, University of Nevada, Reno; M.S., geography and environmental resources, Southern Illinois University-Carbondale; and Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

. — remembers the joyful opening of the LGBTQ+ Resource Office on the main campus of Prairie View A&M University. The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. This academic year, 575 students are being supported.

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MAY 1, 2024

One Million Degrees offers coaching, mentoring, and financial and professional guidance. Another critical component of advising is helping students envision and achieve their career goals. The Strada Education Foundation led an interactive session on personalized career coaching that fully equips students to succeed in college and beyond.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 25, 2024

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., history, Tufts University; M.A., political science, Binghamton University Career mentors: Dr. David L. When he returned to the U.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

But California State University, Fullerton’s efforts to tackle this issue got a major boost recently with the announcement of $1.4 million in grants for projects to shape career pathways for students. The outcome is bad for students and industries alike: a lack of social mobility and a lack of qualified workers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 9, 2023

We weren’t graduating,” said the master’s candidate in higher education student affairs at the Morgan State University School of Education & Urban Studies. I didn’t really have a lot of mentors growing up who were in higher ed or had any idea what research was. I saw that people that looked like me did not matriculate.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

Title: Associate Professor of Counseling, Department of Disability & Psychoeducational Studies, University of Arizona, Affiliate Faculty, Education Policy Center, University of Arizona Tenured: Yes Age: 37 Education: B.S., middle school math & social studies education, University of Missouri, Columbia; M.Ed.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Half of the top 20 bachelor’s degrees of Black STEM PhD recipients from 2010–20 were earned at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Espinosa said this exposes students at MSIs to research opportunities and mentoring. Four research questions were developed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 26, 2023

For a college or university to be designated a Hispanic-Serving Institution (HSI) by the U.S. Institutions that receive HSI designation are then eligible to apply for various federal grants in support of their programming. Sam Houston State University (SHSU) in Texas received HSI designation in 2022.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

Timothy Alvarez’s life is a living example of the importance of mentors in higher education. As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. As he prepares to retire Aug.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). 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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

English and psychology, University of Virginia; M.A., child development, Tufts University; and Ph.D., Mims was working on her master’s degree in child development at Tufts University at the time. “He Title: Assistant Professor of Applied Psychology Tenured: No Age: 33 Education: B.A.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Means Title: Assistant Professor, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh Age: 39 Education: B.A., sociology and political science, Elon University; M.Ed., counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., Be open to change and new directions as a teacher, scholar, advisor, and mentor.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 6, 2023

The cautionary advice dispatched by his mentors when Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz was a college student dented his confidence and, on several occasions, tripped him up. Dr. José Vargas-Muñiz “‘You’re too loud,’” Vargas-Muñiz, a Southern Illinois University molecular geneticist and microbiologist, recalled another of those years-old warnings.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Natalia Rodriguez Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Public Health and Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University; Associate Director of Population Health and Health Equity, Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering Age: 35 Education: B.S., engineering, the University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Nathaniel Currie Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Clark Atlanta University Age: 40 Education: B.S., Nathaniel Currie Title: Assistant Professor, Department of Social Work, Clark Atlanta University Age: 40 Education: B.S., Whether it’s a dissertation, a program, a grant, whatever it is.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

Dr. Felecia Commodore is an associate professor in the department of educational foundations and leadership at Old Dominion University. Fries-Britt, her mentor, was at first reluctant to step into the role as she was just beginning her transition from administration to faculty. But if I don’t go, it’s noticeable.” Turner Kelly agrees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The program, which will eventually expand to include six scholars, will give fellows financial support for their research and teaching, as well as mentoring, networking, and community over a six-year term. According to the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, only 10.1% You can’t be what you can’t see,” said York.

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Unleashing the Power of empower at Southeastern Louisiana University February 7, 2024 — by Ron Abel Explore how Southeastern Louisiana University’s Upward Bound programs evolved with empower , seamlessly integrating to streamline operations and empower staff. Here’s to empower -ing education, one student at a time!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Although women publish less than men, they do more of the sort of necessary work that isn’t respected by promotion boards, like mentoring and service activities. Since 2001, the foundation has given over $270 million in advance grants to institutions and nonprofit groups in 41 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Lesley Shawler Title: Assistant Professor, School of Psychological and Behavioral Sciences; Faculty Supervisor, Center for Autism Spectrum Disorders, Southern Illinois University Age: 38 Education: B.A., psychology, California State University, Sacramento; M.A., psychology, California State University, Sacramento; Ph.D.,

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COE

MARCH 23, 2024

When combined with mandatory funding, the agreement continues to support a total maximum Pell Grant award of $7,395 for the 2024-2025 award year. billion and the Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grant program (SEOG) at $910 million. Congress continued funding the Federal Work-Study program at $1.2

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Scholarship America

OCTOBER 24, 2023

As a sophomore, he was matched with a mentor from the University of Texas Long School of Medicine , who invited him to work with him on a project researching teen mental health. Jake learned about writing grant proposals to support the research, and the team received a $5,000 grant.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sharrelle Barber Title: Inaugural Director of the Ubuntu Center on Racism, Global Movements and Population Health Equity and Assistant Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics and the Urban Health Collaborative, Drexel University Age: 38 Education: B.S., James, Duke University; and Dr. Chandra L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

Washington’s expertise is sought after and granted across religious, government, corporate, and educational settings. By pursuing his Masters of Divinity degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C., he began to heal trauma caused from shame or un-affirming LGBTQIA+ experiences in a church setting.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 26, 2023

of the colleges and universities that received the CGS International Graduate Admissions Survey. degree-granting institutions. universities will be more thoughtful in the attention they give to recruiting students from Sub-Saharan Africa,” she said. Dr. Suzanne T. Ortega said she hopes institutions and researchers use this data.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Byrne PHOTO COURTESY OF CUNY Becoming Dean of Macaulay Honors College, part of the City University of New York (CUNY), enables Dr. Dara N. They focus on experiential learning in New York City, mentoring and research support for students. That led Byrne to pursue her doctorate at Howard University.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Addressing the need Queensborough Community College (QCC), a two-year institution in the City University of New York system, conducted an equity audit that showed there were retention and graduation disparities for male students overall, with Black and Latinx male students disproportionately impacted. Dr. Roderick L.

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