Close the Gap Foundation

AUGUST 2, 2022

With the recent launch of its fourth annual Social Impact Fellowship , Close the Gap Foundation kicked off the summer mentorship program with a Mentoring with Empathy Q&A panel on May 28th, 2022. How to Empathize Working with mentees who may not share the same identities can be challenging to the mentors. Believe the mentees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

The bot is designed to help students understand code and improve it, as well as to answer common basic questions, freeing up teaching assistants and professors to deal with more complex concerns. Some believe that it’s a first step toward a reimagining of the role of human instructors.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

Jamie Washington Washington connects all these responsibilities and commitments with a very simple but unifying approach: find the humanity inside everyone. “I I try to spend my days choosing love, choosing hope, choosing patience, and choosing humanity,” says Washington, adding that by doing so, he is “honoring the power of choice.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. We evolved our mentoring program so that it better serves the students we are supporting at this time,” says Valencia. Over 80% identify as BIPOC or multi-racial and 51% are first-generation.

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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 But all of that changed in 2022, when Steele saw a listing for a job at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education and Human Development. It just made me feel OK.” Dr. Robin L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means seeing Black history and culture represented in the courses they take and the professors who teach them. Have access to mentors and role models who can help them succeed. student in the College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences at the University of Idaho. Feel like they belong and that they have a voice.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Chan School of Public Health Career mentors: Catherine Klapperich, Boston University; Adriana Velazquez Berumen, World Health Organization; and Erin Kobetz, University of Miami Words of encouragement/wisdom: Be very intentional about what you choose to take on and how you choose to spend your time. global health, Harvard T.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

Smith, who earned tenure in 2022, is an associate professor of higher education and program coordinator of educational leadership in the College of Education, Criminal Justice, Human Services, and Information Technology at the University of Cincinnati. psychology, Middle Tennessee State University; M.S.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The college will have its own dean of students, director, counselors, academic advisors, and outreach and support staff, and it will draw from existing faculty who have “a demonstrated record of success in teaching Black students,” said Wood. Dr. Donna Y.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 26, 2022

One of the goals I’m trying to achieve is to portray our lives outside of the classroom to humanize our experience and to show that many of our contributions actually happen outside of the classroom in the research that we do, in the work that we publish and the work that we do with students,” she says. Photo courtesy of Terza A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

He said he viewed the field as one essentially about humanity. When he is not teaching, Currie is at National AIDS Education and Services for Minorities (NAESM), working with queer minorities as a behavioral health clinician. “We Nathaniel Currie said the drive to help other people has been with him since childhood.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Bennett As a team, we are a recent doctoral graduate, now administrator, and a faculty member, formerly a mentor and now colleague, to the first author; we have collaborated via mentorship, co-instruction, and co-research. How can resistance to neoliberal positionings reinforce learning, academic rigor, and basic human decency?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2023

Lee said that she has been blessed with amazing mentors. He made extensive comments on her writing, and she credits him with teaching her how to be a good writer and thinker as well as a theater historian. “I It makes us see the humanity in each other. It reduces humans to two-dimensional things.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 22, 2023

We have the human capital to prepare students [for] these roles.” Participants will then return to their home districts and instruct students in multiple languages, including Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, and Khmer, the predominant language of Cambodia. At the same time, the program will help employers build their workforces.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

Teach Black males and their families about the hidden curriculum (e.g., Partner with community members, especially Black men, to serve as mentors and role models in the college-going and transition process. Ford is a Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Edward C. Fletcher Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2023

Among the programs are accounting, business administration, health administration and services, finance, human resources, and marketing. For example, the MBA programs offer 11 emphasis areas, including cybersecurity, health administration, data analytics and human resources. UMGC was recently designated a Minority Serving Institution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 11, 2023

mathematics, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute Career mentors: Dr. Rafael H. Lopez Valdez’s focus on the human element started when he was a visiting scholar in Switzerland during the 2014-15 academic year. They will do something [for] you and teach you that you can do the same.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

When Dr. Diego Villada came to New College of Florida in Sarasota as assistant professor of theater and performance studies, he made a conscious decision not to teach acting with the standard 20th century texts written by white men. Theater doesn’t belong to any particular culture — it belongs to the human impulse to tell stories.”

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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.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

biology, Bennett College; MPH, health behavior and health education, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill; and Doctor of Science, society, human development and health, Harvard University Career mentors: Dr. Ana V. She loves teaching and seeing students gain more nuanced thinking. James, Duke University; and Dr. Chandra L.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Although the exact number of schools with both a president and provost of color is unknown, fewer than 9% of presidents and provosts are Black, according to data from the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources (CUPA-HR).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

I also wanted them to mentor me, particularly the Black male instructor, as I could see my future self in him. Also significant were teacher inexperience (novice) and high turnover when assigned to teach Black students. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University Dr. Tanya J.

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Eric Stoller on Academic Advising

MARCH 2, 2017

It might not necessarily be feasible for all classes, but it would certainly reduce some of the pressure on first-year experience programs as all classes would essentially be part of a proactive retention and high-impact teaching/learning mix. Employability. Career services departments have a tremendous responsibility. High Tech, High Touch.

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Clair Kamp Dush

DECEMBER 7, 2016

One hard thing about teaching the job market course is that sometimes advanced graduate students are realizing, for the first time, that they do not have a CV that is going to get them a tenure-track job. Even at teaching institutions, tenure-track positions go to scholars with research experience. Don’t wait until it is too late.

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EAB

MAY 17, 2023

4 Staff Engagement and Retention Issues When I first entered the research and advisory business, the first C-level executive I learned to support was the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO). Early on, I had a hard time grasping why HR was so important to overall “organizational effectiveness.” I think that is where we are with AI.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. Engaging with students was fulfilling, but Watford says she realized teaching was not her calling.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

On top of this, Galan found that Latinx professors are often given high teaching loads and tasked with many service projects, limiting their time for research. He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. Higher Education Administration and Policy Education:   M.Ed.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2023

On top of this, Galan found that Latinx professors are often given high teaching loads and tasked with many service projects, limiting their time for research. He mentors first-generation and low-income college-bound student athletes, as well as undergraduates and Ph.D. students. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

higher education & student affairs, Ohio State University; M.LHR, human resource management, Ohio State University; and Ph.D., Stewart began teaching as a tenure-track assistant professor at Iowa State in August 2019, after going back to school to receive a doctorate in college student counseling and personnel services. “I

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Clair Kamp Dush

MAY 10, 2018

Specifically, according to James Lang’s book Small Teaching , when you use prediction: “you are compelled to search around for any possible information you might have that could relate to the subject matter and help you make a plausible prediction. You also need to make sure you keep chatting under control. Or, read some books on writing.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Setting up either services or outreach or workshops, or even just meet and greets and tabling events with a mobile van to just get out into the community, which I think humanizes us for students, which can be helpful, it demystifies perhaps a little bit of just who we are and what we do.

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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. In addition to running the center, I also lecture on campus I teach a couple of different classes. We've been doing that one for five years now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

He was more than his president but a mentor and friend, so much so that he delivered the eulogy at King’s funeral. We watch laws being introduced and passed that prevent the teaching of subjects and offering certain majors and call for the abolition of offices and professionals that support diversity, equity and inclusion.

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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. It's written around business, but it's actually a book on how are you an authentic human leader in any place.

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