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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With the demise of affirmative action, threats to diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives (DEI), and policies in higher education there might not be an immediate increase in the number of Black men seeking to enroll in higher education.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To implement a sense of compassion, educators must be committed to a flexible process facilitated through positive communication and transparency. Moreover, school counselors are positioned to facilitate individual and group counseling to assist with study skills, stress, anxiety, and social-emotional learning development. Dr. Erik M.

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Ariella Robbins, Villanova University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Ariella Robbins is Vice President for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Villanova University, a post she has held since November 2024. Robbins also established Employee Resource Groups to provide support and engagement to faculty and staff.

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A Tribute to Dr. James A. Banks — The Father of Multicultural Education: In These Troubling Anti-EDI Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I had an immediate epiphany: How timely Banks’ book is in these most troubling anti-EDI times (EDI - Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion) I must not only continue to proactively teach my students the goals of multicultural education, but I must also remind larger audiences. 1. To problem-solving? · An Equity Pedagogy.

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Celebrating the Incredible Emerging Scholars of 2025

Active Minds

Active Minds is proud to facilitate change by supporting our fellows through funding, mentorship, and amplification. His lived experience has shaped his commitment to mental health equity and systemic change. He is passionate about the intersections of racial health equity, health policy, and social justice activism.

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Empowering Change: Four Key Strategies for Supporting Student Affairs Administrators in the New Affirmative Action Landscape

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mentorship, Community Building, & Collaborative Partnerships : Encouraging administrators to establish mentorship programs and affinity groups can facilitate connections and provide spaces for minoritized students to share experiences, challenges, and successes. We cannot support people if we do not know what they need.

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Identifying Gladiator Institutions: Welcoming Institutions for Athletes of Color Only

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

These future collegiate athletes, and their families, will be informed in no uncertain terms that the institutions represented by the coaches offer welcoming and supportive environments to facilitate their development and meet their needs. For these young men, this is their time, and they are ready. Dr. William B.

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