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How Active Minds’ Interns Champion Mental Health

Active Minds

My comfort movie is any movie from the Barbie film series, specifically the ones from 2001–2005. I recently graduated from Santa Clara University, where I studied communication and sociology. I am interning for the Communications Department! This semester, I am a returning intern with the K-12 Initiatives Department.

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The Income-Driven Repayment (IDR) Account Adjustment: Moving Millions of Borrowers Closer to Cancellation

NCLC Student Loan Borrower Assistance

One significant barrier between borrowers and an IDR plan was poor communication: loan servicers failed to tell borrowers that they were eligible to enroll in an IDR plan or provided them with inaccurate information about their repayment status and options. In 2001 that loan went into repayment. Mary then was in repayment for 9 years.

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Students Increasingly Don’t Remember the 9/11 Attacks

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

College seniors were born in the fall of 2001. 9/11] is just this mystical thing I’ve always heard about,” said Evangelica Alcantara, a first-year student at Riverside City College who was born in 2001. “I For them, 9/11 is a historical event, little different from Pearl Harbor. I don’t have very much connection to it.”

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Colleges Prepare to Protect Dreamers, Undocumented Students Amid Trump’s Threats

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Silence is yeast for fear to grow, so we need to be constantly communicating, being real but as positive as possible, keeping everyone in the loop as new information emerges, she added. as childrenfrom policies that could affect their safety and ability to pursue higher education. as children to obtain legal status.

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2022: Year in Review

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Simmons, the first Black president of an Ivy League institution, Brown University, which she led from 2001-12, retired as president of Prairie View A&M University after five years. It recounts her weekly visits to a segregated library during her childhood. History-maker Dr. Ruth J.