Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 10, 2024

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. As such, Shivers said, it's important that student affairs professionals practice self-care.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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“In Fall 2022, our first faculty mentor pairings were made,” says Ben Telesca, vice president for student affairs, SRSU. The program began in Spring 2023 with 153 students, 87 of whom were Hispanic. Of the more than 7,500 students enrolled at Wright College, 62% are Latino.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

As students cast a wider net when considering their options, it’s critical that community colleges make early, meaningful interactions with students, follow up with inquiries, and create a recruitment communications strategy that will allow them to stand out against the other options the student might be considering.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Long Beach College Promise is another Latino-serving program in which students are tracked from the K-12 system (the Long Beach Unified School District), through community college, and into CSULB to make sure students are fully supported through all the educational pathways.

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MARCH 15, 2023

He explained how he's likely to benefit from his current experience: "I didn't realize how much of these academic and student affairs, the learning and research environments, are actually on the vice chancellors' and vice presidents' plates. It starts creating a culture that, when something's wrong, it's okay to say it.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 10, 2024

It was fall 2016 and the nation was alive with activism in the wake of Donald J. He came out on the social media platform formerly known as Twitter in December 2016, something that his mother and church rejected at that time. As far as Howard was concerned, Ross’s journey started on the same day he met with student affairs.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 17, 2023

“With it being the pandemic, the challenge was enrollment because a lot of students were taking time off or…they had to take classes virtually and online, so there was a dip [in enrollment] during the pandemic, but the interest was there.” Hudson, vice president for student affairs. “We In February 2023, there were about 2,500.

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