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UNCF Spotlights HBCUs as Engines of Social Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This includes sponsoring some events, such as the upcoming UNITE conference. They learned that social mobility is in the DNA of how many HBCUs think about their mission, systems and how their faculty and administrators engage with students and other communities. Julian Thompson The Lumina foundation often partners with UNCF.

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Scholars at AABHE Conference Discuss Strategic Responses to Anti-DEI Legislation

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College and university administrators should be strategic about how they respond to government attempts to root out diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (DEI) on campus. And the presidents commission on diversity, equity and inclusion at her university has since become the presidents commission on access, opportunity and community.

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A Blueprint for College Students’ Sense of Belonging

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This is the topic we took to task in Fostering Healthier Campuses: Applying Sense of Belonging Theory to Student Affairs Research and Practice at the recent annual meeting of NASPAStudent Affairs Administrators in Higher Education. Feeling unsafe and unwanted off campus heightens students need for belonging on campus.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

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The event offered pro-bono legal consultations and support from community organizations providing social services, health care, financial services, and employment. On an unseasonably warm November weekend, people gathered on campus for a record clearing and expungement clinic organized by the Community College of Philadelphia Foundation.

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Promoting Higher Education for Native Americans in Minnesota

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COIN has an elders-in-residence program through which UM students have access to cultural knowledge speakers and language speakers. Events and activities happen throughout the academic year. We can be the connecting piece to bridge them to those opportunities and provide them the access that they need.”

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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

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He had been very excited to attend, until the week of the event. “We I didn’t understand why everybody didn’t have access. And I was determined to have access,” says Williams. I made sure everyone had access, especially my Black classmates and friends,” says Williams. Tapping into access became a deliberate decision.

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CCP Board Ousts Generals Without Explanation After Decade of Growth

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On April 10, the CCP Board of Trustees voted to relieve Generals of his duties, placing him on paid administrative leave until his contract expires in June. million agreement with the Navy pipeline project," Generals noted, defending his administration's performance. We just landed a $2.7