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From Unicorn To University Professor: Programs Break Down Barriers For Underrepresented Students
From Unicorn To University Professor: Programs Break Down Barriers For Underrepresented Students
DePaul Magazine
As employers seek to diversify their workforces, demand has never been greater for well-educated employees from underrepresented backgrounds. The university’s McNair Scholars program, a federally funded TRIO program, guides juniors and seniors from low-income, first-generation or underrepresented backgrounds to PhDs and academic careers. Going a step further, DePaul created the Arnold Mitchem Fellows program to prepare sophomores for research-based careers and the McNair program. Mitchem also serves juniors and seniors who fall outside of the McNair program’s narrow parameters, such as students pursuing a combined MD/PhD or an MFA.
Action In Education: Fall 2018
Action In Education: Fall 2018
Action in Education
Dean's Corner: Best-Kept Secret Is Significant Teacher Shortages; Teaching Partners: School Nurse Certificate Addresses Shortage; Empathy and Listening in Action; Best in Camp; In Brief: Parting Words; Upward Bound: Backpack Full of Love
Fall 2018
Conversations
Meditations on an orange; The blue demon and the Laker; The Center for Journalism Integrity and Excellence honors Pauley, Pistone; Alumni and friends shine at awards reception; On the move; The superhero the world needs; Around the college; Taking flight
I-Tree Landscape: A Case Study In Best Practices For Education And Dissemination For Multiple User Groups, Margaret M. Abood
I-Tree Landscape: A Case Study In Best Practices For Education And Dissemination For Multiple User Groups, Margaret M. Abood
DePaul Discoveries
The urban ecosystems we inhabit provide essential ecosystem services to humans, such as air pollution removal, as well as effective means to avoid costs related to urban development, such as stormwater treatment. A better understanding of the value of ecosystem services and their spatial distribution in urban areas is vital to widespread, wholistic understanding of the relationship of environmental, economic, and social conditions. As such, it should be a component of education in grades 6-12, college, and continuing education. i-Tree Landscape is a free, online model developed by the USDA Forest Service in which users can select a geography (i.e. …
Spring 2018
Action in Education
Dean's corner; Degree, interrupted; Customized micro-credentials fill educational niche; New COE program deepens Catholic connections; In brief; Alumna named national school counselor of the year
Spring 2018
Insights
Blueprint for LAS students; Advisory council retreat calls for voicing our success; Quick starters; Actively engaged intellectuals; Intellectually engaged activists; LAS interns exceed expectations at museums; In brief; For your bookshelf; Showcasing knowledge for a decade; Genius grant; Anti-violence program creates community leaders
Spring 2018
Conversations
Dean's letter; Then and now; Communication and technology; Going for gold; True or false; A helping hand; Accolades; Bookshelf; Around the college; Student profile