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Former K-12 Teacher Voted AERA President-Elect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An AERA fellow, she was elected to AERA’s Executive Board and Council from 2018 to 2021, has been liaison to AERA’s Graduate Student Council and International Relations Committee, and co-edited Review of Research in Education, an AERA peer-reviewed journal.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2018, the graduation rate for Latine/x students has increased from 24% to 34%. Six years ago, the university transitioned from a quarter to a semester system, significantly streamlining the path to degree completion. Coupled with enhanced academic flexibility it has led to improved graduation rates. Currently, 60.1%

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A data literacy workshop series offered each semester helps to foster a data-driven decision-making culture across the university. From 2018 to 2023, Latinx staff representation increased from 33% to 38%, and administrator representation increased from 17% to 25%, respectively.

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10 Best Practices for Supporting College Students’ Mental Health

Timely MD

Johns Hopkins University is five years into a university-wide effort to bolster student mental health resources , staffing, training, and programming based on recommendations from its Task Force on Student Mental Health and Well-Being made in 2018.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He says he thought that, after earning the degree, he might return to the Compton school district to work as a curriculum coordinator or literacy specialist. He earned tenured three years later, became a full professor in 2011, and was named the Pritzker Family Endowed Chair of Education in 2018.

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Bullying

SRI Education

Bullying is considered a type of school violence (Arseneault, 2018; Yang et al., 2018; Sigurdson et al., Children who are frequently bullied are at risk for later mental health challenges, substance abuse, and even unemployment as adults (Arseneault, 2018; Takizawa et al., 2018; Lereya et al., 2014; Wolke et al.,