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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.

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$25M Foundation Grant Promotes Internships Among Humanities Majors

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mellon Foundation has awarded a total $25 million in grant funding to five public colleges and universities to establish paid internship programs for humanities majors. To those ends, the humanities internship grants aim to make internship participation more widely available for humanities majors.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among the larger two-year programs are law enforcement, nursing and human services. The Metro-Wide American Indian Graduation Celebration facilitates conversations between tribal colleges and four-year institutions. We can be the connecting piece to bridge them to those opportunities and provide them the access that they need.”

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Humanity in Healthcare Emphasized in Youth Career Pathways Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

So much that in my last conversation with her on the night of January 16, 2021; she told me that she wanted to write a book on “humanity in healthcare”; adding that “they ought to treat folk humanely”. She expressed confusion and tremendous frustration with regards to the way that she was being treated. to 1:00 p.m.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025 Copy

Active Minds

Active Minds is proud to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. By addressing systemic barriers in these underserved communities, Kevin seeks to inform policies that enhance mental health funding and access globally.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. A clear understanding of the directives and data-driven bases for senior-level decision-making facilitates buy-in for various initiatives.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025

Active Minds

Active Minds is proud to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. By addressing systemic barriers in these underserved communities, Kevin seeks to inform policies that enhance mental health funding and access globally.