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Maryland Teachers Receive Tuition-Free National Board Certification

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I firmly believe perception informs pedagogy. This process facilitates the introspection required for transformative teaching and learning our students deserve.

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An Inclusive Approach to Increasing Access to Student Mental Health Services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At Montgomery County Community College (MCCC), we take a slightly different approach to supporting the mental health of our students, centering around facilitating access and removing barriers to care. A primary component of this approach involves integrating mental health support with other basic student wellness services.

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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

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Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college.

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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.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

To facilitate and sustain positive changes in the academy, influence and pressure from both internal and external sources are necessary. The closing sentence would express the writer’s intention to review the website on a regular basis for information about how the institution will address the concerns, thus ending phase one.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the first 10 questions that a student encounters in the FAFSA is ‘Who is your parent or guardian and what is their income information?’ Demographic information about the recipients was not available. The Minnesota State system is seeing a 7% increase in enrollment. The state’s FAFSA filing rate is up 11% from last year.

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Don’t Just Witness History; Seize the Opportunity to Shape It

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institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students. If political leaders are going to use the acronym HBCU as a dog-whistle, then it is high time we reclaim it and inform the constituency ourselves around what these political leaders are or are not doing–regardless of race or party.