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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Its satisfaction leads to positive gains such as happiness, elation, wellbeing , achievement, and optimal functioning (Strayhorn, 2019, p. Hosting trans awareness events, safe zone training, Take Back the Night, and Walk a Mile in Her Shoes, for instance, are effective strategies for creating inclusive campus climates.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The needs of freshmen are also carefully considered, with INSPIRE (Incoming Student Program for Inclusion, Retention and Excellence) as well as student support programs like EOP (Educational Opportunity Program) and EXCEL, which create strong networks of support.

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Seven Best Practices in 40 years of Reporting on Diversity in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

14, 2003) While there is no shortage of higher education news outlets, none has covered two-year and four-year colleges and universities and their efforts to promote equity and inclusivity quite like this one. See “A View from the Founders,” July 11, 2019) To Mr. Matthews, I say — MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. White House Honoree, Jan.

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Lifting As They Climb

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Vanessa Siddle Walker, the Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Educational Studies Emerita at Emory University, served as president in 2019-2020 and was followed by Dr. Shaun R. Carter Professor of Child Development and Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

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2023 Seal of Excelencia

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Earning the Seal will only deepen our future work in building a richly diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. It affirms that our commitment to institutional change initiatives and educational and inclusive excellence is creating the conditions necessary for accelerating Latinx student success and college completion.”

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All the Right Notes: TRIO Star Ethan Camperon-Vaupel

Castleton Trio

For that reason, he became a Summer Transition and TRIO Texting mentor. Again, Ethan sought additional challenges, serving as Lead Summer Transition Mentor his junior and senior year. As a mentor, Ethan strives to be personal and inclusive. “I I try to become friends with someone before I mentor them,” he says. “I

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Partnering with Forbes to launch national mentorship program

Close the Gap Foundation

”  â€“Tai Tran, co-founder and president at Close the Gap Foundation and a Forbes 30 Under 30 Lister These 30 cohorts, or mentoring circles, led by Forbes 30 Under 30 listers spent their monthly meetings tackling topics ranging from inclusion in the workplace to career pivots.