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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Early in her time as an administrator at Virginia Tech, she implemented the Black Engineering Support Team (BEST), having Black upperclassmen be peer mentors to freshmen. I stepped out of a tenure-track role and into an administrative position, where I could create programs to help students be successful.” After completing his Ph.D.

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Making Sense of Changes to the U.S. News Rankings Methodology

Robert Kelchen

Here, I will start by giving a shout-out to the new Wall Street Journal rankings , which were reconstituted this year after moving away from a partnership with Times Higher Education. News rankings is their annual survey sent to college administrators with the instructions to judge the academic quality of other institutions.