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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “In the words of Wilma Rudolph, ‘never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. Kelley, Distinguished Professor and Gary B. History at UCLA.

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Repairing the College-to-Career Pipeline

The University Innovation Alliance

This entrepreneurial collaboration grew from Dr. Elaine Collins’ course Success for Transfer Students. In 2002, she joined the TFA staff as Vice President of New Site Development, growing the organization’s presence in Miami and Philadelphia, and doubling its presence in New York City. Why have you never talked to the university?

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Stress is a natural part of the human condition, and can be performance enhancing at low to moderate levels. This response has had adaptive value over the course of human evolution, when stressors often involved reacting to immediate threats to our survival. Background. Stress, Mental Health and Learning. 2009; Kirmayer et al.,

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Choosing or Dumping Harvard?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I like to tell rejected applicants, they weren’t rejected as a human beings; they were simply told “no.” In 2002, when the applicant pool was 19,605, the acceptance rate was 10.5 Not enough to file a new lawsuit. Or maybe Blum will take them on contingency when he’s looking for more aggrieved clients.