Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danielle Lopez has been appointed the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for Accessibility Services at Hudson County Community College (HCCC). She will lead and support our accessibility and accommodation programs for students and employees.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Affirmative action policies have been instrumental in increasing access and opportunities for historically marginalized groups in higher education. Collaboration among various departments, including academic affairs, student affairs, and equity and diversity offices, ensures a comprehensive approach to student and administrator support.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2025

According to Ess Pokornowski, Reintegrating students face a unique set of overlapping challenges: they are leaving a total institution where choice, communication, access to healthcare, access to technology, and opportunities for education and gainful employment are all dramatically limited.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 13, 2024

Leach Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion award on Tuesday from NASPA, the association representing student affairs professionals. She also experiments with various modes of knowledge dissemination to ensure scholarship remains accessible, evidenced through projects like the podcast "Scholar Tea." The Bobby E.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 8, 2025

Title :Assistant Dean for Student Vitality & Career Development and Director of Student Affairs Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: Bachelor of Science in Nursing University of Virginia; MBA in Business Administration, Averett University; Ph.D It's my turn to give back to those students that actually have to address barriers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

With over 25 years of administrative, research, and teaching experience in various higher education settings, Vega transitioned to academia as a faculty member and has significantly contributed to the Master of Arts in Higher Education program at Montclair State University since 2017. Vega earned her Ed.D.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 17, 2024

student affairs administration/higher education, Ball State University, Teachers College; Certificate, College and University Teaching, Ball State University, Teachers College; Ph.D., Such programs often are not institutionalized and have part-time oversight from someone in the faculty or student affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 6, 2024

Over the past three years, she has spearheaded impressive initiatives at the university that now touts an enrollment of more than 14,000 students. “As The Alliance works to support faculty and staff recruitment and retention at the university. Engaging directly with students has been a highlight of Patterson-Stephens’ work.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

has announced the 2022 cohort of MCT Scholars, recognizing 10 first-year graduate students in higher education or student affairs students at six institutions. This study aims to measure how this movement has impacted the identities of students of color in higher education graduate programs. “The The Dr. Melvin C.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Black and Hispanic students had the highest match rates in remedial and developmental courses: 34% for Hispanic students and 17% for Black students. However, Odle’s team found that the faculty in these matches were more likely to be temporary staff or adjuncts, rather than tenured or tenure-track. Dr. Kimberly A.

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EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Ed Venit The white paper, “Navigating the Recovery: A Long Term Perspective on Student Success Following the Pandemic and What Actions You Can Take Now,” notes three student success issues that were made worse by the pandemic: K-12 learning loss, high staff turnover rates in higher education, and student mental health needs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 28, 2023

million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. Although it was difficult to sustain a sense of community when people were working remotely, “I was still very proud of our faculty,” Alvarez said. It was eye-opening for students and faculty.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

They get additional financial supports such as assistance with fees, stipends each semester, and campus “flex dollars” to spend on food and at the bookstore, says Zelon Crawford, SPS’s senior associate dean of student affairs, who oversees the fellowship program. Graduate and undergraduate degrees are expensive,” Crawford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. It enrolls roughly 43% first-generation Latino students. These data-driven decisions allow us to refine efforts to better serve our student population.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

Ja’Bette Lozupone Title: Director of Student Affairs, Montgomery College Age: 41 Education: B.A., She now works at Montgomery College as director of student affairs, where, among other things, she tries to ensure that the 15% to 20% of the student body that are parents have access to more resources than she did.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 12, 2023

counselor education (student affairs), Clemson University; and Ph.D., Molloy University; and Dr. Leigh Patel, University of Pittsburgh Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: Find and develop a community of supportive colleagues and mentors. My interests in higher education are focused on access,” Means said. “I

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

At the time, there was only an unapproved (not officially recognized by the university) LGBTQ student group. There was also a standing committee on LGBTQ student needs that the student affairs office had, which did as much as they could within the confines of the administration,” he says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 29, 2024

Despite her vice president title, her role had morphed into a mix of event planning and student affairs tasks, far removed from the strategic DEI leadership she had envisioned. CDOs should actively seek allies across their institutions, including faculty, staff, and student groups who share a commitment to DEI.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2023

Now, a new report from the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA) and UWill, an online counseling platform for colleges and universities, has shown that mental health is continuing to decline. We’ve found that the vast majority of faculty really want to help, but they just don’t know how,” she said.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Until campus leaders can move to rectify campus spaces and furniture to more closely meet the needs of fat students, we encourage all faculty, teaching assistants, and student affairs practitioners who are charged with creating learning experiences to consider how they might manage these realities and help shift them for fat students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Bowman (left), Michigan State University’s associate dean for academic and student affairs, and other leaders from the university’s college of education. I just fell completely in love with focusing on the research, working with students, teaching classes. Jerlando F. Jackson meets with Kristine L.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Podcast How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Episode 149. Dindo and Herrmann discuss the success of these efforts and offer advice to other campus leaders about meeting the mental health needs of a diverse student population. May 2, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2024

She also served as provost and executive vice president for academic and student affairs at the University of Southern Maine. “We We all know this is a tough time for higher education, and my top priority is making Thomas College sustainable by building on its core mission of access to education,” said Uzzi. “By

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2025

Student Affairs and Higher Education, Indiana State University; Ph.D., She says that having access to grant and external funding has been critical to her continuing and persisting in her work, and she encourages others who do similar research to shore themselves up similarly. Business Marketing, Albany State University; MBA.,

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Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Community colleges are vital in providing accessible higher education opportunities to diverse student populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. For TCC, focusing on student well-being is central to a broader strategy to boost engagement, retention, and completion figures.

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Civitas Learning

AUGUST 22, 2024

The Strategy: Transition to a case management model that offers students proactive guidance and access to resources, and engages faculty to see a complete picture of their academic journey. Engaged Faculty It can be exceptionally hard for institutions of any size to engage faculty in student success efforts.

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EAB

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The stresses and loss of the pandemic profoundly impacted student well-being, while the social disruption and isolation altered their social development. Many are not doing well mentally or emotionally, and these big changes are readily apparent to faculty reporting ‘ stunning’ levels of disconnection and disengagement in their courses.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Student Well-Being Blog. A comprehensive archive of blog posts written by students, faculty, and staff covering a variety of health and well-being topics can be found on the Student Health and Well-Being website. Any JH staff, student, and faculty can access the pantry upon submission of a brief form upon arrival.

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EAB

JANUARY 23, 2023

Equip faculty and staff to better refer students to support Faculty and staff play a critical role in supporting students' mental health and well-being. Equipping faculty and staff with in-the-moment resources will empower them to direct students who need support to the best-fit resources.

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EAB

MAY 5, 2023

Putting it together: Aligning campus services with every dimension of student wellness Stepped Care models show us that our non-clinical programs and services have a role to play in supporting student wellbeing , and the Eight Dimensions model gives us a blueprint for doing so in a way that is holistic and grounded in established theory.

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EAB

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, men of color are less likely to access mental health support than white men, and college men are less likely to have a therapist than college women. And on campuses where students of color outnumber faculty of color, those faculty face an additional burden of uncompensated labor as mentors. August 24, 2021.

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Supporting Student Success

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Students were also encouraged to join and engage with peers, staff and faculty via online message boards, hosted on the PeopleGrove platform by the Tri-Mentoring Program (Ryerson’s peer-to-peer mentoring program). As such, we knew which faculties the participants came from as well as their entry point into Ryerson.

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John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Given past experience, including the 35-day shutdown in 2018, the work of most faculty, students, and staff should not be seriously hindered, and patient care will continue without interruption. Faculty, staff, and students should plan to continue normal operations for the foreseeable future. Continuity of operations.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Now imagine those very characteristics that make us who we are inadvertently becoming obstacles to accessing health care. It’s a reality experienced every day by historically underrepresented and marginalized college students. These barriers are a significant roadblock that impacts students’ academic and personal health outcomes.

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 13, 2022

At Handshake’s Access 2022 conference for employers and career services professionals, three students spoke about their journey with mental health. Take proactive measures to support students' mental health journeys. Create an expectation of student commitment to college-to-career transition preparation.

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