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Researcher-Mentor Challenges Students to Pursue Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Shana Stoddard, who is being commended for that passion through the 2023 Council on Undergraduate Research’s Silvia Ronco Innovative Mentor Award. That was something that I realized was really important to me, to have an army of undergraduate students in the lab. Stoddard’s students have published two papers. She holds a Ph.D.

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My Mentors Taught Me to Be Career-Ready

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Not all students go on to find mentors like I did. In a recent survey from MENTOR, a national nonprofit that advocates and provides resources for mentoring, Generation Z students reported having fewer mentors than older generations. Horus Hernandez is KIPP alum.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We and many others have written about how Black males are the most disenfranchised students in our nation’s schools. 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. Dr. Erik M. Hines, E.M.

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Engineering Ph.D. Candidate Relishes His Role as a Mentor

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“I was teaching three different physics laboratory sections with 33 to 34 students each,” he recalled. He said none of his 100 students dropped his physics classes. I’m pretty proud of that fact because a lot of students do drop physics,” he added with a chuckle. So, you get to do research at the same time as mentoring.

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The Importance of Listening to Student Needs Emphasized at Department of Education Summit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Studying the data, intentional collaboration, and asking students what they need are keys to improving outcomes. Cardona spoke about his experience as an undergraduate student. Despite doing well academically, as a first-generation college student, he felt lost. On Wednesday, the U.S. Secretary of Education Dr. Miguel A.

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Mentoring FGLI Students with Empathy

Close the Gap Foundation

Becoming a mentor has always appealed to me. To me, being a mentor meant I had my life together. When browsing online, I saw an opportunity with Close the Gap to be a mentor, and it seemed to be a great way to give back! After applying and being accepted, it made me ponder what it meant to be a mentor.

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Duke University Uses Peer Mentorship to Support First-Generation, Low-Income Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sachelle Ford became the first director of the DukeLIFE program at Duke University in January 2020, she brought with her the experience of being a first-generation college student. Before DukeLIFE, peer-to-peer mentorship had been implemented at Duke before, but the program’s execution did not appeal to many students.