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Focusing on Mental Health Challenges Facing Community College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The report, funded by The Kresge Foundation, "Supporting Minds, Supporting Learners: Addressing Student Mental Health to Advance Academic Success" explores the data of the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for returning students and the 2023 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) for entering students.

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Taking Physics to the People - Dr. Christina Love

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Notably, as an astroparticle physicist, Love has joined the IceCube collaboration, giving her access to data from the worlds largest neutrino observatory. focused on the direct detection of dark matter with the DarkSide Collaboration, a group of scientists working on the dark matter experiment. Love also collaborated as co-P.I.

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LGBTQ Leaders in Higher Education: Building Bridges and Breaking Barriers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

and the board asked me to stay on as executive director in 2023,” he explains. The organization’s first formal strategic plan, adopted in October 2023, outlines ambitious goals for the next three years. Esterberg reinforces this collaborative imperative. “In

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Kessler Collaborative Breaks Down Silos to Help First-Generation Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

What started as an innovative program to support limited-income and first-generation students at the University of Michigan in 2008 has since grown into a 16-institution collaborative program that has helped hundreds of first-generation students across the country find success in post-secondary education.

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Cultivating Tomorrow’s HBCU Leaders: The H.E.L.F. Foundation Effect

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“This is an HBCU-centric program, and we are unapologetic about it,” says Dr. Elfred Anthony Pinkard, who served as president of Wilberforce University from 2018 until his retirement in 2023. Collaboration: The Future of HBCUs” in Charlotte, N.C. From May 12-14th, H.E.L.F. will sponsor “Ideation. Innovation.

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Paul Quinn College to Create an Innovative Housing Model and a Mixed-Use Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Through a collaboration between Wells Fargo and T.D. The college has also partnered with the Jakes Divinity School since 2023 to offer a T.D. Jakes Foundation, Paul Quinn College received another $236,000 earlier this year to build the Corporate Work Program and housing security funds.

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An Inclusive Approach to Increasing Access to Student Mental Health Services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) for returning students and the 2023 Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE) for first-year students, 66% of the student respondents to both surveys indicated they felt nervous, anxious, or on edge to the point where it was affecting their lives.