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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, Black students in P-12 schools tend to be suspended at higher rates than their racial peers and the belief is that this discipline will teach Black students a lesson to behave in class. Teach students how to be self-advocates - asking for help and speaking up about concerns. Dr. Erik M.

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National School Counseling Week and 3 Questions

Counselors' Corner

National School Counseling Week is next week. The last time you thought about this question was probably your first counseling job, where a day didnt go by without you saying They didnt teach me how to do this in grad school, or, Why am I not doing what they taught me in grad school? by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D.

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Inspired by Veteran Grandfather, Therapist Teaches Wellness, Inclusion

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For a decade prior to coming to Claremont Graduate University (CGU), she worked as a clinical therapist in DePauw University’s counseling center. And having served in the counseling center at an undergraduate institution, I was super familiar with the policies and processes. Carter holds a B.S.

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Report: Community Colleges Are Leaving Millions in Medicaid Funding on the Table

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Eligible health services include but are not limited to, psychological services, counseling, nursing services, physical therapy, Medicaid outreach and case management. Goldrick-Rab said she and Stewart hope to offer technical assistance to teach colleges how to manage this process adequately.

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Report: Outdated Funding Law Hampers Community College Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meanwhile, research increasingly shows that comprehensive support services like counseling, basic needs assistance, and mental health care directly impact student achievement, especially for historically underserved populations.

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Mental Health Counseling: Time to Assess

Counselors' Corner

The COVID crisis threw a lot of things into disarray, from families to schools to school counseling curricula. In addition, many counseling offices put together post-COVID mental health programming that was needed to help students remember how to do school in person, and how to move past the isolating effects of the pandemic.

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Fierce Advocate for Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We went around the state and started teaching persons in non-traditional areas that college is a possibility and these are the things you need to do,” she says. She earned a Master of Education degree in guidance and counseling and a doctorate in child development (the doctoral program defined child development as continuing until age 21).