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The Black Woman’s Burden: Battling Inertia in Higher Ed

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By building support groups, Black women have been able to encourage each other to take more time for self-care and mental health. The book was pulled together in 2020, when the stress of the COVID-19 pandemic and the murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor were fresh on their minds.

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Disabilities Access is About Holding Space

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Margaret Price The sentiment — addressing the dearth of disability accommodations in higher education that she and others have experienced — appears in her new book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (Duke University Press, 2024). “We

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Dr. Terza A. Lima-Neves: Living Life on Purpose

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She describes the YouTube channel as a passion project that dives into the different areas of her life as an academic, mother, researcher and person who has dealt with mental health challenges, particularly while navigating the early phases of the pandemic. I said, ‘I’ve got to publish a book that’s important for me.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Timothy Alvarez’s life is a living example of the importance of mentors in higher education. million over five years, that enabled the school to focus on mentoring, professional development for faculty and undergraduate research. He did not have mentors until he propelled himself back to college at age 32.

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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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Scholar Looks to Ease the Burden of Racial Opportunity Costs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

before she became a full professor and a dean, before she published the book that sums up her life's work and her life experience, Terah Venzant Chambers was shaking in a pew. It’s a concept that she’s been refining for 16 years, culminating in the release of Racial Opportunity Cost , her first book, this month. said Chambers.

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How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources

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Podcast How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Episode 149. Carl Dindo, the Director of Campus Health Services for Northern Arizona University, to discuss innovative approaches to meeting student mental health needs. May 2, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. music] 0:00:49.0