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Prioritizing Mental Health After Tragedy with a School-Wide Mental Health Field Day: From the Advisors

Active Minds

From the advisors (school counselors): Kaitlyn Robichaud and Courtney Selig This blog was written by Whitman-Hanson Regional High School’s Active Minds advisors about their experience supporting student-led efforts to advance mental health in their community. Talk about “great minds think alike!”

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Young Black Men Project, Fitting in for Black Men, Boys Showcased at BMRI’s Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The convening continued its conversation on the mental health of African American men at the Woodruff Library in the heart of the Atlanta University Center. million grant from the Andrew W. Two sessions continued on Thursday during the second and final day of the Black Men Research Institute’s (BMRI) Spring Symposium.

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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She says the goal of her research is to help Black students to “freedom dream,” a term inspired by Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination , a 2002 book by Dr. Robin D.G. They wanted mental health professionals and counselors that were Black and understood what it meant to be Black. Nash Endowed Chair in U.S.

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HEER Funding Kept Community Colleges Open and Students Enrolled

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Pell Grant recipients in California got more in aid than their non-Pell peers,” said Rodriguez. The pandemic really shone a light on how food insecurity and mental health effects student success in and outside the classroom,” said Rodriguez. “Most colleges used need to determine the amount of money they would award to students.

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Unapologetic Leadership Thought: Freedom Dreaming

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The facility would also address the mental health of our students. We need to double what we offer for Pell Grants. At community college campuses, blue books, scantrons, and pencils would be free to all students. Community college is free, and student aid covers the total cost of attendance.

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Dr. Timothy Alvarez Retires from Otero College in Purpose, with Satisfaction

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a result, the college received a Title V grant, $3.5 We’re one of the few rural schools in Colorado that actually has a full-time licensed mental health professional,” Alvarez said. His sense of curiosity drives his staff crazy, he said, because he’s always reading articles and books that he shares with them.

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Isabel Wilkerson’s Powerful Address on America’s Caste System Opens the 2023 COE Annual Conference

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Wilkerson wrote The New York Times bestselling book, “ The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration ,” which was published in 2010. Her 2020 book, “ Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent ,” won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. Both texts were the subject of her keynote speech.