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Report: Pandemic Dealt a Blow to Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes partnerships with overseas institutions, faculty with international background and expertise, and curriculum. Rick Garfunkel, vice president for global affairs, had to bring back several hundred students who were studying overseas, including 40 in China. “[It was] not easy,” he said. Some of them wanted to stay.”

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Prairie View Recognized for Excellence in Campus Internationalization

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the first HBCU to ever win the award and one of a limited number of institutions to win it nationwide, it feels great to be recognized in such a very public way at the national and international levels.”

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Diversity Abroad Conference Focuses on Inclusive Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It's that mission that drew Derrick Banks, a faculty member and counselor at Santa Barbara City College to the conference. said that pre-pandemic, her university was sending between 60-80 students abroad. Ofelia Hernandez, an Education Abroad Advisor at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.,

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Bridging Research and Practice

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Empowering Futures Gift was earmarked to fund scholarships, advance medical education and research, support faculty expertise, increase athletic competitiveness and make possible numerous student-centered initiatives. This job requires being on 24-hours a day,” he says. “I at Stanford.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This requires intentionality and assessing all aspects to safeguard what is best about higher education: students, faculty, and staff who are different but learning, disagreeing, and growing for the betterment of society and self.” Dr. Barbara J. Additionally, institutions should be attentive to the well-being of all employees.

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Inspired by Veteran Grandfather, Therapist Teaches Wellness, Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As vice president of student affairs, Carter reports directly to CGU President Dr. Len Jessup and the Board of Trustees. She is involved in myriad school matters including campus life, international students services, disability services, the Clery Act, and financial aid as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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Supporting the Whole Student Through Holistic Advising: Reflections on ED’s Raise The Bar Summit

IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

Resources such as Achieving the Dream’s Holistic Student Supports Redesign toolkit provide evidence-based, practitioner tested tools and guides that help institutions from initial needs exploration through successful evaluation and refinement of holistic advising models.

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