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The benefit for me is that I had really great mentors who just really encouraged me and provided me with opportunities to explore. in educational leadership. I dont take for granted that Ive had so many mentors and people that have come before me who believed in me when I may not necessarily have believed in myself, she emphasizes.

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JANUARY 16, 2025

Under her leadership, the institution has seen dramatic increases in diverse student enrollment, with Hispanic student enrollment growing by 232%, Native American student enrollment by 71%, and Black student enrollment by 75%. She holds a Ph.D.

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MAY 15, 2025

The leadership pipeline in higher education has long suffered from a lack of diversity, cultural competency, and justice-minded vision. Faculty are not just instructorsthey are mentors, guides, and co-conspirators in the work of equity and justice. Because the academy is in crisis. We are investing in faculty. Dr. Fred A. Dr. Adriel A.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. These are the institutions that can show you with their data, with their evidence-based practices and with their leadership what they’re doing,” says Santiago. and graduate 19%.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Research has shown that Black women face unique challenges in the workforce and in leadership; however, despite persistent obstacles, including a lack of mentorship and feedback, a dearth of role models, and discrimination in hiring and promotion, Black women continue to excel in their chosen fields and rise to leadership positions.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

And how does one use intersectionality to help define a leadership style? Specifically, for me, how do my intersectional identities influence or impact my leadership style, priorities, and strategic directions? My primary mentors have been women of color, white women and gay men.

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That topic was among many issues discussed Thursday at the NCAA Inclusion Forum. The annual forum brought together more than 650 students, faculty, athletic directors, and administrators for a three-day conversation focused on enhancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging initiatives at colleges and universities.

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MAY 5, 2025

Dyrell Foster Growing up, I never saw myself as a leader because I rarely saw anyone in leadership roles who looked like me. Now, as a Black and Korean Community College CEO, I have the opportunity to challenge societal expectations and break stereotypes, especially in spaces where Black and Asian leadership remains underrepresented.

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OCTOBER 6, 2024

Nearly twenty years later, Patterson-Stephens returned to her alma mater in 2021 to become CMU’s Vice President for Inclusive Excellence and Belonging after honing her leadership skills at several other colleges and universities across the nation. She is the first Black woman to ever serve as a vice president at the university.

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MAY 20, 2024

Vartan Gregorian, founded The Leadership Alliance. The Leadership Alliance is a consortium of 41 leading research and teaching colleges, universities, and private industry dedicated to increasing the participation of underrepresented and underserved students in Ph.D. training programs.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Some of the programming is for prelaw [students] only, some for traditional undergraduates in mentoring, and some for currently incarcerated students. Team leaders are BMI students as young as sophomores, who help lead the direction of the program and mentor other students. Our team leaders really have that leadership role.

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MARCH 18, 2025

This double standard manifests in insidious ways: Overrepresentation in Service Work: We are disproportionately asked to lead diversity initiatives, serve on equity committees, and mentor students from historically excluded or systemically marginalized backgrounds. Anything less is unacceptable.

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APRIL 25, 2025

Hosting trans awareness events, safe zone training, Take Back the Night, and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, for instance, are effective strategies for creating inclusive campus climates. Community on campus flows from frequent, positive interactions with others, namely peers, faculty, and staff like advisors, coaches, and mentors.

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JULY 7, 2023

Smalls In a perfect world, governing boards and leadership demographics would mirror the student population (Higgs, 2014). Having an advocate or mentor is critical We found that the presence of a mentor in the life of the trustee was critical to the participants’ successful selection or election as trustee.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Video 4 (“Digging Deep”) illuminates struggles faced by some Black male college and graduate students in STEM fields and highlights the uplifting power of peer support and faculty mentoring. Finally, Video 5 (“Of Triumph and Perseverance”) offers an illustration of a Black male success story. Dr. Brian A.

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OCTOBER 14, 2024

Yet another noticed anti-Black racism increase at their institution when the university publicly declared its commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). So, you can be mentoring these students … and being an advisor, and all of those things, and it gets placed in this nice little bucket called service. says Patton Davis.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Olivas Award, a national award from the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) that recognizes leadership and mentorship in diversity and mentoring in the legal academy. Olivas, was a friend, colleague, and mentor. “He Johnson said he was touched by the award because its namesake, Michael A. 5 during AALS’s annual meeting.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Since 2020, ATD has partnered with the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center to create the Racial Equity Leadership Academy (RELA) , an intensive institute that supports teams of community college leaders as they develop strategic racial equity plans and consciously dismantle barriers to equity at their institutions.

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DECEMBER 20, 2022

Dr. 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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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Garcia co-chairs the Association for the Study of Higher Education’s Council on Ethnic Participation’s Mentor-Protégé Program, a leadership role among others in her professional organization memberships.

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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. I am proud the leadership of both institutions are united on this goal that secures Vanderbilt’s future among the leading research institutions.

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APRIL 4, 2023

A panel titled, “Diversifying the Future of the Profession: On Mentoring, Mattering & Movements,” was moderated by Dr. Terrell L. This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. Mentoring remains one of the most viable and critical tools for professional development.” That’s what mentoring is all about.”

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MAY 29, 2024

This year’s American Council on Education (ACE) Reginald Wilson Diversity Leadership Award honors Dr. Richard Helldobler, the president of William Paterson University in Wayne, New Jersey. Richard Helldobler has been committed to equity and inclusion throughout his career in public higher education,” said ACE President Dr. Ted Mitchell. “He

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

We use languages that are not inclusive. Dr. Leslie Gonzales, an associate professor in the higher, adult, and lifelong learning unit at Michigan State University, has been a mentor to Hall. We have to figure out a way to educate university folks to be more inclusive,” said Hall, citing training tools like undocumented ally training.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Despite all the talk about diversity, equity, and inclusion, the highest echelons in the Academy remain white and male. As the study progressed, we wanted to explore these STEM faculty members’ transition to senior leadership administrative positions at universities nationwide. Only 15% were men of color, and 13% were women of color.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Like so many other scholarly associations founded in the United States, African Americans and other minorities remained invisible within the leadership ranks for years. In 2021, AERA’s leadership named Dr. Edmund W. The American Educational Research Association (AERA) was no exception.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, Virginia Tech Career Mentors: Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, Dr. Aubrey Knight, Dr. Azziza Bankole, Dr. Shelvy Campbell-Monroe, and Carol Lynn Maxwell-Thompson, Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine. This work inspired her to pursue a Ph.D.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Although Jackson was in a leadership role, it was her first. Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. The ADENL will include sessions about everything from writing financial and strategic plans to productive conflict and leadership projection.

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APRIL 5, 2024

We must create inclusive environments where students from diverse backgrounds feel valued and heard. Encouraging multilingualism and offering courses that include less commonly taught languages can foster an inclusive atmosphere. student within the Higher Education Leadership and Policy Studies program at Howard University.

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MARCH 11, 2024

It is therefore time to connect the dots among efforts to dismantle diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) activities, overturn race-conscious admissions, and bring back standardized tests. Take care with formal and informal advice-giving and mentoring. Humans are no different. It is up to us to communicate welcoming conditions.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

He served as a pre-admission counselor and tour guide and was a founding peer mentor for the Making Our Space an Inclusive Community, a living-learning residential community that helps low-income and historically underrepresented students transition from high school to college. Now it’s not all doom and gloom,” he continues.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It is my sincere hope that each video and handout provide valuable insights into how we —parents, caregivers, teachers, college advisors, professors, mentors, policymakers, and students themselves — can improve and better support the experiences of Black males through STEM educational pathways. Dr. Brian A.

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JUNE 16, 2024

It seeks to prohibit any state or federal funding from being utilized to support diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs at the state’s higher education institutions. They also note that LGBTQ faculty and staff can make a point of being mentors and role models as well as cultivating a sense of belonging for students.

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APRIL 16, 2024

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. One of the biggest factors for us is getting our leadership involved and getting them to support the work.” The opposite is true for Leyva.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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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. This program will feature time for faculty to learn from their mentors as well as professional development workshops, including one on grant-writing.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. Among these suggestions were calls for corporations to implement inclusive hiring practices and diversity in leadership; and a need for higher ed to recruit Latino faculty in engineering and tech.

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