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From Challenge to Triumph: Empowering Marginalized Students to Become Scholars

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through mentorship in higher education, we can build supportive communities that empower students to excel rather than allowing obstacles to hold them back. Should you advocate for them, with them, or behind the scenes? We are not truly vested in a student’s future success if we only provide them with “clinical” mentorship.

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Women in Leadership: Empowering Change across Generations and Cultures

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cultural institutions leverage their roles of women to advocate for systemic change, ensuring diverse staff, boards, and programming. As they pave the way for future generations, women leaders invite us to envision a world where leadership is defined not by power but by the ability to inspire, empower, and uplift.

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An Advocate for Equitable Health - Dr. Sabina Khan

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Khans mission is to empower these women by building life skills, supporting their education, and creating opportunities for better futures for them and their children. Khans research combines quantitative and qualitative methods to optimize care for vulnerable populations.

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Living Life Offline: Social Media Effects on the Success of Black College Students Amid Today’s Political Challenges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the current political climate, where debates over systemic racism, diversity programs, and the state of free speech dominate on a national scale, these platforms can either empower or hinder the success and outcomes of students.

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Exporting Degrees, Importing Responsibility: Rethinking Careers Support for International Graduates

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The reality is, universities have a far greater role to play in empowering international graduates to thrive not just within the UK, but globally. By empowering our international alumni to ‘pay it forward’, we generate a virtuous cycle of mentorship, opportunity, and success. At UEL, we are committed to this vision.

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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Imagine if the collective energies in the ubiquitous Thanksgiving food drives shifted in that direction, as students, staff, faculty, and administrators focused on revising campus policies and/or advocating for improved public programs? Hopeful signs for a future beyond campus food pantries abound.

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Law Project Advocates for People With Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

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unless they have advocates like the people who run the ICC, who have been through this process themselves and really know how to advocate for families, or in some cases, advocates like us, who have some knowledge of the legal system and [how to] be persuasive,” Frieders says.

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