Active Minds

APRIL 22, 2025

By tailoring events for both undergraduate and graduate students and collaborating with mental health professionals, UC Riverside ensures widespread access to resources throughout their community. Every Wednesday, we host SWIFT mental health clinicians in our space, allowing students to connect with and access mental health support.

Mental health

The Counseling Geek

JULY 25, 2025

Share on X Learn About Using ChatGPT as a School Counselor If you missed my last post about using ChatGPT in school counseling – be sure to check it out for additional reading on another cornerstone AI tool for School Counselors. Goodbye hallucinations - hello citations.

Counseling

School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

However, the cost of tuition can be a barrier for families considering private school options, limiting access to these institutions. To address this challenge, private K-12 schools can proactively implement strategies to ensure equitable access to financial aid. Key Strategies for Equitable Access and Promoting Diversity 1.

Financial aid

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

The barriersranging from cultural stigma and financial constraints to limited access to tailored supportare significant and deeply rooted. Unclear systems: Overlapping or confusing systems for accessing resources can deter already overwhelmed students. Simplifying access and offering proactive guidance can make a huge difference.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

For example, as a staple in the community, the Black church can collaborate with college campuses or minority student organizations to implement spiritual wellness, a component of psychological health for racially minoritized populations, cited as being helpful. This may make accessing support like food banks or religious services difficult.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 22, 2025

Lomax highlighted the importance of financial literacy, advocating for better financial counseling to help students avoid over-borrowing on student loans while still accessing the transformative power of higher education. Kendi, who is slated to join the faculty at Howard University in a few weeks.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

On behalf of students, we must confront this crisis with compassion, collaboration, and conviction. Mental health must be multifaceted, not solely focused on individual counseling. Wyoming has found success in telehealth, particularly in reaching students in rural areas where staff shortages and budget gaps limit access to care.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

On behalf of students, we must confront this crisis with compassion, collaboration, and conviction. Mental health must be multifaceted, not solely focused on individual counseling. Wyoming has found success in telehealth, particularly in reaching students in rural areas where staff shortages and budget gaps limit access to care.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 16, 2024

Danielle Lopez has been appointed the inaugural director of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) for Accessibility Services at Hudson County Community College (HCCC). She will lead and support our accessibility and accommodation programs for students and employees.

Accessibility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 17, 2024

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.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Keith Curry, president of Compton Community College, and Dr. Pam Luster, President Emerita of San Diego Mesa College, focused on creating an equitable higher education landscape and increasing access for those historically marginalized by academia. She began as a professor of psychology counseling at Chabot College.

Equity

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

He also addressed utilizing evidence-based issues like homelessness and systemic barriers for people without access to mental health physicalities, recognizing trauma as a public health issue, and reframing the language in mental health through early detection screenings and in-person community screening events. Funded by a $1.4

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 7, 2023

Program participants get access to early advising from their college of choice, academic counseling, and financial aid, while not having to face specific tests or transfer application fees. This agreement also creates SAU’s third national HBCU Urban Access Hub. “I

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

Excelencia in Education, an organization working for increased access and completion of Latinx students in postsecondary education, has released its latest report on programs that have qualitatively and quantitatively shown to improve and increase the success of Latinx students in higher education.

Database

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

teachers, school board members, superintendents, principals) and policy makers to see, appreciate, and honor the cultural capital that students of color bring to education, counseling, and mental health services. Counseling & mental health. collaboration, critical thinking, problem solving, work ethic), technical skills (e.g.,

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2024

Rana is also director of the annual International Conference on Stigma , which — when it convenes in November — will enable the college to train college-age peer educators to use performing arts engagement to raise awareness and promote access. Gilead’s executive vice president of corporate affairs and general counsel, Deborah H.

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

The pandemic exacerbated long-standing education equity issues and could ultimately reverse decades of work on access and completion,” the report noted. “We can't just be a student affairs or a counseling center priority or responsibility,” Brown said. So there's a lot of collaboration and engagement across campus that needs to happen.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 30, 2023

Sherrá Watkins The panel discussion – hosted by higher ed mental health provider Mantra Health and the Steve Fund, which focuses on mental wellbeing for youth of color – was centered around how a major part of student success hinges on mental health, and how some communities may not be getting equal access to the resources they need.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 27, 2023

Collaborating with area workforce partners to fill the needs in MetroWest is a winning combination for the local economy.” Participants will be able to get individual career service assistance, career counseling, resume-building and interview skill workshops, and wrap-around services such as childcare and transportation stipends.

Community college

Active Minds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Foster open dialogue by establishing peer support systems, counseling services, and mental health resources. Encourage collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. Provide Access to Resources : Ensure that teachers have access to mental health resources and support networks.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

I propose the following policies and strategies to disrupt this pipeline: Embed Mental Health Counseling into Early Intervention Programming Early intervention is crucial for at-promise students to prevent behaviors that may lead to arrest and involvement in the criminal justice system.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

These students are provided academic supports that include counseling, scholarships, and opportunities to participate in innovative science programs. “Dr. Alexander is very accessible, very approachable for students,” says Dr. Claudia Salcedo, who adds that administrators can sometimes be perceived as separate from the students they serve.

Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 21, 2024

The authors argue that these results support the continued importance of diversity initiatives in higher education, both for increasing access and for promoting students' academic and social development. Their findings demonstrate the significant educational and civic benefits of interracial and interethnic interactions during college.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 11, 2024

We’re committed to affordability and access, to do everything we can to make sure every student has the opportunity to attend an institution of higher education, earn a degree, and be successful in taking their first steps into a career path.” Liann Herder can be reached at lherder@diverseeducation.com.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

Scholarly research should be made accessible and legible for people not in academia, the scholars agreed. "My Dr. Terah “TJ” Stewart views those that he research and writes about as collaborators and said that he takes into account how they want their stories shared. I'm not going to be an academic forever,” said Dr. Renae D.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 14, 2024

Accessible healthcare services, mental health counseling, and accommodations for individuals with chronic illnesses are essential components of a supportive academic environment, yet they remain elusive for many students. We must collaboratively implement comprehensive support systems that cater to the diverse needs of students.

Mental health

EAB

MAY 2, 2023

Podcast How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Episode 149. Dindo and his team have focused on connecting students with the right information, counseling, and other mental health resources in places and ways that students find most helpful. I am from the Director of NAU Counseling Services. May 2, 2023.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 1, 2023

While the majority of college presidents say that providing mental health support for students is a priority, lack of resources and funding, a negative stigma, and an overall unfamiliarity with identifying mental illnesses can keep learners and educators on campus from accessing the support needed during trying times.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Related to student success, CEED has a robust center that includes tutoring, mentoring, and advocacy for students to ensure they are on the path to achievement and graduation,” adds Dr. Karen Eley Sanders, associate vice provost for College Access. Sanders has worked with CEED in various capacities throughout her 22 years at Virginia Tech.

Mentoring

Timely MD

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

However, 78% of students expressed still needing help managing their emotions , though only about half (36%) received counseling or therapy in the last year. Effective, accessible, and equitable mental health care remains essential to student success. Here’s how counseling can benefit a patient.

Counseling

Timely MD

JUNE 4, 2024

Transform Your Campus With Virtual Care College students who feel supported, connected and have access to mental health care they need are more likely to graduate and experience better mental health outcomes while on campus and in the future. We always say, ‘your counseling center is built for you, by you.’

Collaboration

Timely MD

APRIL 4, 2023

Lack of virtual resources: Although virtual therapy has become more widely available in recent years, access to these resources can be limited for college athletes who may not have access to technology or may not be familiar with how to use these types of resources.

Mental health

Timely MD

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Community colleges are vital in providing accessible higher education opportunities to diverse student populations in rural, suburban, and urban communities alike. Access to mental health is something I think a lot of people take for granted. Access to mental health is something I think a lot of people take for granted.

Mental health

EAB

JANUARY 12, 2023

Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet. Student Mental Health & Well-Being Collaborative. November 21, 2022.

Student affairs

COE

APRIL 7, 2023

By partnering with the Pell Institute, Ascendium is working to reduce institutional barriers to accessing and completing college and to help more learners from low-income backgrounds achieve their educational and career goals. As a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, we fund initiatives across the U.S.

Grant

Active Minds

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We held meetings to come up with ideas for fighting the stigma of mental health and making sure that everyone on campus has access to the support they need, knows how to find it, and never feels alone. Our advisor wrote a grant to the KyleCares foundation and before we knew it we had an Active Minds chapter at Whitman-Hanson.

Mental health

Timely MD

MAY 9, 2023

These educational institutions and technical colleges offer affordable and accessible education, which is often tailored to meet the needs of the local job market. Collaborating with local businesses to create training programs that meet specific industry needs. million for bachelor’s degree holders and $1.6

Community college