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Tag: Mentoring
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Iona College to Launch Mentoring Program
Iona College will launch a mentoring program this fall to advance students’ goals and give alumni a new way to support students. The “Gaels Go Further Mentoring Program” will have academic and business development professional Colleen Slattery as its inaugural director. Slattery most recently was coordinator of workforce development programs at Stony Brook University. The […]
July 1, 2021
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How This Minneapolis Man Is Healing Collective Trauma Through Creative Counseling and Mentoring
Jamil Stamschror-Lott is a mental health provider running his own therapy practice, Creative Kuponya, which he and his wife Sara founded together in 2017. The practice — named after the Swahili word for “healing” — is based in Minneapolis, the city he moved to as a child in the ’90s.
June 17, 2021
Campus Climate
Sustaining Professional Development in the Midst of COVID
Professional development initiatives that support employees are essential, particularly as we navigate the COVID-19 pandemic and consider how best to reopen campuses. Pivoting to online learning and teleworking while preparing for a new normal has highlighted this need. Perhaps, more than ever before, we are challenged to build the capacity to meet the diverse needs of our students and one another.
July 16, 2020
Recruitment & Retention
U Michigan’s LSA Debuts New Facility For Transfer Students’ Success
The University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts (LSA) recently debuted a new building on campus with the goal of student access in mind.LSA’s 45,000 square-foot $35 million building includes classrooms, interview rooms, a lounge and event space, 24/7 food and beverage market and a prayer, meditation and wellness room. Planning for the centrally located building started in 2017 and was designed to be a place where students can connect with their fellow peers and meet with potential employers.
January 23, 2020
African-American
Report Shows Economic Gaps and Racial Inequality Persist
A new report details the persistent educational and economic disparities between Whites, African-Americans and Latinos.
October 17, 2019
Opinion
Effectively Mentoring Women of Color on the College Campus: A Holistic and Intersectional Ecology (HIE) Model
Many women of color (WOC) students have been silently suffering at Predominantly White Institutions (PWI’s) across the country. A deeper examination suggests these students are doing well academically, but struggling to maintain positive wellbeing in campus environments that may feel unwelcoming and at times hostile.
September 10, 2019
Leadership & Policy
The Importance of Mentorships in Higher Education
We are proud “firsts” – as we have been frequently in both our personal and professional lives. Each of us is in our second university presidency, and each time we’ve ascended to the executive role, we’ve been the first African-American leader to do so at our predominantly White institutions.
November 29, 2018
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Institute Marks 25 Years of Training Minorities as Faculty, Mentors
Inside and outside a ballroom buzzing with activity at the Marriott Crystal Gateway hotel, it could have been easy to get confused or overwhelmed as 1,000 other future, current and past minority Ph.D. students and faculty sought face time with recruiters from more than 80 colleges and universities across the nation.
October 27, 2018
Students
California Program Cultivates Minority Physics and Astronomy Ph.D. Students
M. Katy Rodriguez Wimberly is well into her Ph.D. program in physics at the University of California at Irvine, and she gives credit to participation in Cal-Bridge, a program that helps underrepresented minority students earn doctoral degrees in physics and astronomy.
October 7, 2018
Students
Florida Professor Leads Effort to Aid Black Comp-Sci PhD Students
Dr. Juan E. Gilbert is part of a large-scale project, the Institute for African-American Mentoring in Computer Science (iAAMCS), which has developed a document to help schools recruit and retain African-American doctoral students in computer science.
August 30, 2018
Students
Diversity and Inclusion at the Core of UW Experience
The University of Washington, Seattle campus has made steady gains in supporting the success of its underrepresented minority students, says university officials.
August 27, 2018
Students
Consortium Creates a Community for Minorities, Women in Cybersecurity
Recognizing the need to increase and retain the number of people of color and women in cybersecurity professions, the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) has created a community to support such individuals entering the field.
August 17, 2018
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