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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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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. In 2020, George Floyd, a Black man, was extrajudicially murdered. Dr. Robert T.

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The Impact of Affirmative Action on the Mental Health of College Students of Color

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Primm We believe that the discontinuation of affirmative action will increase isolation and decrease a sense of belonging among students of color, both of which pose risks to mental health. For nearly a decade, the Steve Fund has promoted the mental health of young people of color.

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Cultural Competence: A Critical Skill for Today’s Police Officers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As noted by Dennis (2020), community colleges in the U.S. Recruits develop cognitive skills that facilitate trust, legitimacy, and policing practices. Surprisingly, understanding behavioral health needs and communication was identified, but sparsely. police officers.

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Fellowship Program Highlights the Work of Disabled Scholar-Activists

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One of the fellows, Bowen Cho, had been attempting to complete their project since early 2020, but had struggled to find collaborators — as disabled scholars often do, they said. Locust and a third-party mediator held listening sessions and facilitated the fellows’ efforts to process their feelings and sort out their group dynamics.

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Fostering Success

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We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. Peer learning facilitators are students who successfully passed the course they are being hired for, and some have previously been recipients of AAP peer learning.

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Providing Wraparound Services for UCONN’s Asian American Studies

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Census Bureau’s 2020 Census. The TEAS project is approaching the need to support its significant Asian student body from multiple angles, seeking out what would be the most beneficial: mentorship, mental health, and curriculum. More than 170,000 Asian people reside in the state of Connecticut, according to the U.S.

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Open to Change

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Opened earlier this year, Coe College Center for Health and Society is an interdisciplinary/multi-disciplinary space for collaboration and conversation about health, wellness, environments and communities. It enables an intentional health focus across the liberal arts and facilitates dialogue on the future of healthcare.