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NASPA Centers the Stories of Diverse Student Affairs Professionals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The panel was organized by the Melvin C.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“We are very intentional in how we recruit, retai Dr. Jose Fierro n and support completion to our diverse student body,” says Dr. Jose Fierro, president. “We We aim to eliminate equity gaps and continue to transform our institution into a Hispanic-graduating institution.”

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Underrepresented Students in STEM Classes Resulted in Higher Grades

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nicholas Bowman The presence of underrepresented racial minority (URM) and first-generation college students in a course is related to higher STEM grades for all students in the class, especially for the minority students themselves, according to a recent study published in AERA Open.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

The research findings presented below draw from analysis of the National College Health Assessment (NCHA) 2016 Canadian Reference group, which included 42,642 students from 42 postsecondary institutions (colleges and universities) across Canada (ACHA, 2016; Ezekiel, In Press). Shifting Cultures: Broad Awareness. Conclusions.

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Advising, Counseling, Mentoring and Teaching Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Settings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Another fundamental aspect of this discussion is the need for educators to adopt an anti-racist (social justice or civil rights) and cultural competence approach to their work, which means being equity-based and culturally responsive in philosophy and action. Emerald Publishing Limited.

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After Settlement with Howard University, Students Call for Sweeping Changes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was fall 2016 and the nation was alive with activism in the wake of Donald J. He came out on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter in December 2016, something that his mother and church rejected at that time. As far as Howard was concerned, Ross’s journey started on the same day he met with student affairs.