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Alumni Influence to Facilitate Diversity Starts With a One-Dollar Donation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Harvey Nevertheless, some of these alumni maintain various levels of contact with their alma maters – ranging from attending reunion events, to regularly reviewing materials they receive from the college or university, to making monetary donations they hope will help produce a more inclusive atmosphere for current and future generations.

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How to Support LGBTQ+ Young Adults With Silence

Active Minds

Creating inclusive spaces for historically oppressed communities, like individuals who identify as LGBTQ+, is pivotal in facilitating a more just, and thus healthier, society. The impact of this behavior, coupled with a lack of safe spaces, contributes to LGBTQ+ youth reporting higher rates of depression, anxiety, and suicidality.

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OER23 part two: inclusive, hopeful and “warm space*”

Catherine Cronin

After returning home from #OER23 I wrote a short blog post about the joy of returning to the conference as an in-person event – and the privilege of sharing an update on Higher Education for Good (co-edited with Laura Czerniewicz), particularly with several of the book’s contributors in the room.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas, partners with over 62 high schools across the state, facilitating college access for Latino, rural, and other marginalized communities. Earning the Seal will only deepen our future work in building a richly diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. Dr. Erika D.

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Bringing Mental Health to Middle Schools (And to the Fairway)

Active Minds

They participated in golfing events where they helped shine a spotlight on destigmatizing the conversation about mental health while elevating the need for athletes to take care of their own mental health. Our program is research informed, developmentally appropriate, and celebrates and promotes diversity and inclusion.

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Have you seen these 10 Terrible Tenure Decision Making Patterns?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We present the problems/solutions as an easily accessible 10-point checklist, so that you can grade your own processes, identify your challenges, and proactively incorporate de-biasing practices in the spirit of equity, diversity, and inclusion. Committee members often arrive unprepared. Recommendations: · End re-do meetings.

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4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders

EAB

Blogs 4 takeaways on combatting faculty burnout from our gathering of academic leaders EAB recently launched the first two-part event series for our partners focused on combatting faculty burnout and integrating a culture of well-being in academic affairs.

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