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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Greater diversity also has numerous well-documented benefits for all students. The Steve Fund’s 2020 Crisis Response Task Force Report , Adapting and Innovating to Promote the Mental Health and Emotional Well-Being of Young People of Color: COVID-19 and Beyond , describes the pandemic’s disparate impact on students of color.

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How to Achieve HSI Status: Intentionality

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s programming that benefits all students, but in particular focuses on the success of our Hispanic and Latino students.” Northern Arizona University (NAU) received HSI status in 2020, which Dr. José Luis Cruz Rivera, NAU’s president, said was very much intentional.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This shift includes investments in mental health technologies, such as teletherapy and wellness apps, and providing faculty with training to better support students’ needs. Dr. Barbara J.

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Advancing the #RealCollege Movement

Believe in Students

I arrived at Believe in Students in April 2020, just as the pandemic was rocking the world and changing college campuses, in some ways permanently. My job when I arrived was to figure out how to utilize incredibly generous philanthropic support to provide emergency grants to students. We believe in students.

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Annual influenza vaccine

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Annual Influenza Vaccine Since 2020, Johns Hopkins University has required all JHU students, trainees, postdoctoral fellows, faculty, and staff to receive an annual influenza (flu) vaccine. Other respiratory viruses, such as the flu and RSV, will also affect our campus community.

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The Eight Dimensions of Student Wellness

EAB

Podcast The Eight Dimensions of Student Wellness Episode 158. EAB’s Lindsay Schappell, Matt Mustard, and Ed Venit explore the eight dimensions of wellness as they related to keeping students engaged, healthy, and on path academically. They've been polling students since fall of 2020. July 18, 2023.

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The moment you are in will not last forever

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

In August 2020, I published a book about college student mental health and suicide from a student perspective that include an extensive amount of research, time, interviews, etc. My book came out on August 6th, 2020. I thought I was beginning to understand suicide. I thought I was beginning to understand suicide.