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Parent Communication: Tips for Building Better Relationships

Thrive Alliance Group

Students succeed with parent-teacher communication & partnerships We know it takes a village to raise a child. Start with student-centered parent communication. Let’s take a look at why communicating with parents is more challenging than ever, and why it’s worth the effort to build relationships. Poor quality communication.

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When Disaster Strikes: Supporting Students’ Mental Health in Extreme Weather Events

Timely MD

The ramifications of a significant weather event span from physical to emotional, which has undoubtedly played out in an already busy storm season this fall. Disconnection and increased isolation Natural disasters can lead to isolation due to physical displacement, loss of communication, or breakdown of social connections.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For them, 9/11 is a historical event, little different from Pearl Harbor. Marita Sturken is a professor of media, culture, and communication at NYU, who teaches about 9/11 as a case study of memorialization and as a global media event. They are just as capable of thinking of it as a historical event with meaning.

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Education Law Center to Host Annual Lecture

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The event will feature remarks from former Washington Post editor Valerie Strauss and a response panel including NJ Spotlight News education writer John Mooney and Rally Principal Ashley Burns. to 5:30 p.m. Mooney is the founding editor of NJ Spotlight.

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University of Maryland to Investigate Fraternities, Sororities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Maryland, College Park, has suspended social events involving alcohol and new member recruitment for 21 fraternities and 16 sororities pending an investigation into alleged misconduct.

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Building a Foundation that Positively Impacts Los Angeles

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To be able to examine the context of the academy after we have been through some of these world events that we have had recently, I am intrigued to see what people find out,” says Eanes, a widely published scholar in the field of social work.

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As Decision Day Looms, Colleges Try to Boost Minority Enrollment

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We adjusted our communication to be focused on where the student is in the journey, instead of centering Queens,” said Adrienne Oddi, the vice president of strategic enrollment and communications. Other schools are making diversity a part of their communications from the beginning. So, we eliminated that.”