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Professors as Mentors

Oct. 28
Mentor, Friend — or Both?
TAMPA — The session on mentoring minority doctoral students was proceeding swimmingly enough, as the panelists offered useful tips about how the traditional methods for guiding graduate students work (and don’t) for students of color, earning the kind of head-nodding agreement that is typical at gatherings of like-minded people. That [...]

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(Also posted at www.rabbijosh.com)
This morning’s Daily Northwestern writes about the development of an initiative I founded last year called AskBigQuestions. The article focuses in particular on ABQ’s growth from being exclusively sponsored by Hillel to becoming an independent entity with sponsoring organizations from a variety of religious and scholarly communities.
This piece (see page 67), which [...]

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