Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 22, 2022

In addition to her research, she has been a passionate advocate for diversity, lending time and energy to provide opportunities in science for female, minority and low-income students. Her track record of mentoring diverse students culminated in being named Wesleyan University’s McNair Program faculty director in 2018.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

“When you create an atmosphere and an environment where students feel supported, they see people like themselves working in those environments. “We We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. Each cohort is typically 15-20 students.

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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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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

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer faculty workshops on culturally sensitive teaching.” Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways.

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Close the Gap Foundation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Then, I took a shot at teaching. I was worried I wasn’t going to like it but I got lucky because I know some people go into teaching as a back-up and then, they hate it and find something else to do. What do you enjoy the most about teaching? But yeah, I got lucky that I liked it and I’ve been there ever since.

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Close the Gap Foundation

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Sharing similar motivations, Rhonda found Close the Gap as an opportunity to give back and help first-generation, low-income students. Rhonda taught English to high school students before becoming a high school counselor, primarily to English as a Second Language (ESL) students. I was a later student.

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