Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Benedict College joined the campaign to eliminate period poverty by facilitating a "I Support My Sisters…PERIOD" special collection event. “As It's alarming to see how inadequate access to menstrual hygiene products affects women worldwide, leading to significant physical, mental, and emotional challenges,” she continued.

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Active Minds

JUNE 27, 2023

Because trauma and mental health support were not something I understood nor had access to growing up, I didn’t learn about PTSD until I took psychology classes in college. Now, I hope I can help you with my story today and destigmatize seeking out emotional support if you have ever experienced any traumatizing event as a child or recently.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 20, 2024

It examines over 200 indicators to determine who accesses a variety of educational environments and experiences, to explore how student trajectories and outcomes differ by race and ethnicity, and to provide an overview of the racial and ethnic backgrounds of faculty, staff, and college presidents. At an event in Washington, D.C.,

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The school makes many events publicly available online and makes courses available on its UC BerkeleyX platform. The allegations of violating Title II of the ADA stem from how much of the school’s free online content is inaccessible to those with hearing, vision, and manual disabilities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was a special alumni breakfast with freshmen during homecoming weekend, and she’s glad to see in-person events resume. “We They have done so many events and programs that encourage students with disabilities to participate in leadership development programs. That’s the Morgan legacy.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The event will take place Sept. By showing people what incarcerated people read, what they go through to get access to health care and what their living quarters look like, we’re sharing a much fuller, much more nuanced idea of what mass incarceration in America really looks like, and that could influence research for generations.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

Every time one of these events happens, it feels like we’re losing ground, that this is getting away from us,” said Williamson. We are working to come up with some sort of understanding that will help provide guidance for ACHA when they have to deal with heart and mind events surrounding a shooting.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

A culmination of events over the past decade, both external and internal to the campus operations, has forced the closure of this system of colleges,” the school announced. Student Justice Perez Sanders, 16, was only able to retrieve some of her art portfolio because she was not able to access the school’s servers.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

For those looking to bring together other youth and young adults to discuss mental health and put on events … Active Minds chapters are the place for you! As an Active Minds Chapter, you’ll have access to various resources, the professional expertise of Active Minds National Staff, and networks of peers – all at no cost.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 5, 2023

The event was organized by the group Protect African American Studies (AFAM) Movement. Many even slept there overnight, blocking the stairs and access to some offices. “We “It’s sad that Black students on Seton Hall’s campus are still organizing to receive fundamental resources that we are entitled to.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The event which took place Sep. We are proud to partner with the HBCU Week Foundation, an organization working to make college education more accessible to thousands of high school students across the country," said Omar McNeill, head of compliance at Barclays US Consumer Bank. "By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 18, 2023

Conference organizers, it argues, should increase their experimentation with virtual and hybrid events, for their own long-term health. It’s more accessible financially,” said Dr. Jessica Pokharel, manager of research and discovery at JSTOR Labs and an author of the report. “A

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

“The beauty of bell’s work was that it was so accessible, it was not contained in the academy,” said Malaklou. She didn’t see herself as a pedagogue on high, she was in conversation with pop culture and events. So, let’s say there’s an event or meeting on campus that’s considered optional. But institutions can’t love us back.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

The goal is to help faculty create curricular materials for humanities courses and provide veterans and Southeast Asian students more access to meaningful content. A schedule of events and presentations can be found here. The program will run Jun. 12-16 residentially and Jun. 19-23 virtually.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The historic gains made in recent years resulted from colleges and universities across the country focusing on eliminating disparities in educational access and student access based on race, gender, and socioeconomic status. Many declined to enroll in the first place. But the mentoring program proved to be just one piece of the puzzle.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 16, 2024

When we needed to have important sensitive conversations and host events where we could all just come together and be ourselves and have fun, we used the resource center,” Robinson explains. As a tenured full professor, I have access to certain spaces that students don’t have direct access to.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2023

As part of the Student Success Collaborative, our partner institutions also gain access to decades of research, an EAB expert dedicated to their success, events designed to disseminate best practices, and a close-knit community of like-minded campus leaders. Schirmeier said: “The technology is just one part of the solution.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

With an Elevate membership, recipients can access a professional network of creatives and entrepreneurs; exclusive content; various events; luxury hotels and benefits; and extended purchase warranty. “Career development and financial planning are key next steps in the future for these graduates.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 20, 2024

In the early 2000s, Bennett worked at the center as a graduate student event coordinator under the second director, the late Mary Karen Powers. Maxey-Rezmer worked alongside Bennett and the Women’s Center to plan an International Women’s Day event honoring Louisville’s diversity in racial, cultural, sexual, gender, and physical backgrounds.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 9, 2024

Colclough hatched an idea — what if they could develop professional learning environments easily accessible for all faculty in North Carolina’s community colleges, and what if that development could move the needle on student success? The Hubs also communicate with each other and retain all their lectures online for access at a later date.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2023

Equal access to education is the key that unlocks the American Dream. The event – organized by the ETS Center for Advocacy & Philanthropy (CAAP) – celebrated, honored, and recognized the students’ tenacity, academic achievements, and commitment to service. You are the future leaders of that society.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

COIN has an elders-in-residence program through which UM students have access to cultural knowledge speakers and language speakers. Events and activities happen throughout the academic year. We can be the connecting piece to bridge them to those opportunities and provide them the access that they need.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2023

When it comes to catastrophic events, Puerto Rico has experienced its lion’s share in the last decade. With these events have come economic vulnerability and population decreases. Being an HSI gives institutions access to grants and funding that must be used to better support and serve Latinx students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sherrá Watkins The panel discussion – hosted by higher ed mental health provider Mantra Health and the Steve Fund, which focuses on mental wellbeing for youth of color – was centered around how a major part of student success hinges on mental health, and how some communities may not be getting equal access to the resources they need.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2024

The program also provides access to mentors for early career faculty and trains them in grant writing, op-ed writing, teaching, and how to achieve a better work-life balance. Gasman said that offering the ELEVATE program free of cost is also critical as many MSI faculty lack travel and professional development funding.

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Active Minds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Engage in innovative thinking when it comes to staff wellness events. Provide Access to Resources : Ensure that teachers have access to mental health resources and support networks. Occasionally, set aside professional development time and invite staff to participate in a wellness activity.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

The new regulations in those dozen states will lead to over 10 million additional K–12 students – 21 percent of current students – gaining guaranteed access to this knowledge, the Survey notes. The 2024 Survey found that 35 states now require students to take a course in personal finance to graduate, up by 12 since 2022. It takes a village.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The rubric pushes basic needs staff to focus on four goals while providing examples of activities associated with each: (1) Provide timely, accessible, and comprehensive basic needs resources and services with clearly navigable systems and outcomes. (2) 4) Collect and use in-depth student data and demographics.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

McNeil, a retired Air Force major general, attended the event, along with family members of the other three. Students from those two schools, along with UNC Greensboro, had continued the momentum of the sit-in until that summer of 1960, when the chain store changed national policy to equal access to lunch counters.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

As we work to create national change in how school counselors are able to support their student body, we can also work to improve mental health dialogues and accessibility on a school-wide level. They also are advocates for chapter leaders planning school-wide mental health events and navigating any school-level permissions for such events.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 12, 2023

The pandemic hit when they were freshmen and many students endured over a year of remote learning, with limited access to school counseling services and extracurricular activities. Lower-income and minoritized students are also more likely to have spotty internet access, she added.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 12, 2023

The event includes film screenings, hip-hop performances, and the RCC commencement ceremony. They advocated for an institution of higher learning that was affordable and accessible for the neighborhood. Roxbury Community College is celebrating its 50th anniversary over three days this weekend, GBH News reported. and Red Shaydez.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 13, 2024

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. For example, we have developed an integrated framework to decrease student debt and increase access to outside scholarships. Dr. Montserrat Fuentes is president of St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 14, 2024

There is a long history of Blacks being excluded from even being considered for private and public sector contracts and job opportunities without there being intentional efforts in place to ensure targeted outreach and access. Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. Marcus Bright is an author and social impact professional.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 1, 2024

D uring the COVID-19 pandemic, Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous students had less contact with teachers and less access to computers with stable internet connections compared to white students, Prabhakar said. For many decades, we've seen very well-intentioned STEM efforts focused on equity and opportunity,” Prabhakar said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The college recognized that the campus needed a safe space for males to get together, interact and learn from each other as well as to access resources,” says Jamal Biggs, director of the QCC MRC. Programming has been developed to meet the needs of men of color, who now comprise about 50% of the students who access the center.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 13, 2023

One of the most important ways that first-gen students can find connection is through on-campus clubs, so Pavlinic suggested big windows into meeting spaces and event rooms, so that students can see what campus groups are doing without any extra effort. Jon Edelman can be reached at JEdelman@DiverseEducation.com.

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