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SMART Mentoring program pilot integrates faculty and staff into initiative

September 25, 2023

The SMART Mentoring Program is open to current students who want to be peer mentors for incoming first year students. SMART aims to connect first-year and transfer ALANAM students to mentors on campus. Through a new pilot program this year, the program has expanded to include faculty and staff and offers to provide peer support that is the hallmark of the program to professional colleagues at Elon.

The Black Lumen Project co-sponsors the Educator Summer Collaborative in partnership with the Dudley Flood Center for Educational Equity & Opportunity

August 21, 2023

Cherrel Miller Dyce, associate professor of education and executive director of diversity, equity and inclusion at the Dr. Jo Watts Williams School of Education, Ms. Marlene Harrison-Reid, a teacher with Guilford County Schools, and Deanna Townsend-Smith, senior director at the Dudley Flood Center, facilitated this summer experience for participating teachers.