Active Minds

APRIL 2, 2025

Each of these K-12 schools joined our mental health movement by bringing Active Minds to their school, demonstrating a prioritization of mental health in their communities. This achievement marks a monumental step forward in our mission to transform mental health norms in schools and communities across the nation.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2025

These dynamics affect household incomes, mental health, academic success, and long-term aspirations. That includes offering mental health support tailored to trauma and grief related to incarceration and expanding caregiving support and emergency financial aid that considers household disruption due to incarceration.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

A transformational paradigm shift is needed in the curation of how Black boys and young men are seen and how educators and practitioners - school counselors, teachers, resource officers, administrators, postsecondary faculty and staff - work with them. Communicate. Have courageous and vulnerable conversations with Black boys and young men.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are needs with food, housing, mental health support and counseling. … This report is intended to inform policymakers and legislators about legislative and administrative changes needed to prioritize the success of institutions that serve underserved students. Dr. Dwayne L.

Low income student

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2025

Many essential professionsincluding mental health clinicians, school administrators, nurse practitioners, and physical therapistsrequire graduate degrees but do not guarantee high earning potential upon graduation. Interest rates on graduate loans have reached their highest levels since 2006, adding to the financial burden.

Student loans

SRI Education

JULY 22, 2025

What Should Schools Prioritize to Support Youth Mental Health? In the 2023-24 school year, 84% of public school administrators across the country reported that their school staff provided students with individualized mental health services ( National Center for Educational Statistics, 2024 ).

Mental health

Counselors' Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In addition, many counseling offices put together post-COVID mental health programming that was needed to help students remember how to do school in person, and how to move past the isolating effects of the pandemic. Is there overlap with community mental health services? Now is the time to ask.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 23, 2025

We believe that educational and governmental leaders must work intentionally to ensure that research informs policy and practical changes to address the multifaceted areas of concern for Black male students, including but not limited to higher education, criminal justice, economic justice, and mental health. Dr. Robert T. Dr. Larry J.

Higher education

Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

Mental health

SRI Education

JULY 22, 2025

What Should Schools Prioritize to Support Youth Mental Health? Through these conversations, coupled with survey responses from more than 1,000 school staff, these school community members shared several important ways they think their schools can better support student mental health.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 19, 2025

For determining student aid amounts, the most common factors were administrative data, Pell Grant eligibility, and specific methodologies developed by the institutions. Most institutions provided some form of guidance to students about the emergency financial aid grants.

Community college

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 6, 2025

The institution’s approval of its first graduate program—a Master of Business Administration—represented a broader trend reshaping the landscape of historically Black colleges and universities across the nation. When Bluefield State College in West Virginia achieved university status in 2022, it marked more than just a name change.

Teaching

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

Mental health

Timely MD

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A recent nationwide survey by TimelyCare, higher educations most trusted virtual health and well-being provider, shows that 71% of college students experience mental health challenges like stress, anxiety, and depression. Why is help-seeking among underrepresented students important?

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

CSUSM’s inclusive hiring practices have increased Latino representation among faculty, administrators and staff. All faculty and administrator searches must have a DEI advocate who completes specialized training. The current administration is led by a Latinx president and provost and includes more female leaders than ever before.

Retention

The Counseling Geek

JULY 25, 2025

Welcome to the modern school counselor’s dilemma—expected to be walking encyclopedias of child development, mental health research, and educational trends, all while the knowledge landscape shifts faster than a middle schooler’s friendship dynamics. The pros/cons analysis helps with administrative buy-in conversations.

Counseling

Civitas Learning

JULY 28, 2025

As students navigate mental health challenges, academic pressure, and growing concerns spurred by policy changes, effective support must extend beyond the advising office.

Student success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Later, President Joe Biden responded by asserting that his administration provided billions of dollars to these institutions because "any Black student is capable of doing what any white student can do." Today, amidst increasing racial violence, hostility, and divisiveness, HBCUs are, for many Black students, the option of choice.

Mental health

Timely MD

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

For university administrators, understanding this topic is essential for supporting both student success and institutional goals. Financial literacy is more than knowing what a credit card is or how interest rates work. It’s about empowering students to make informed decisions about their money and setting them up for long-term success.

Literacy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 18, 2025

I reached out because I was leading a study on first-generation Black and Latinx students and the mental health impacts of the impostor phenomenon. Ive taken on administrative roles by choiceserving as a program director, department chair, and leader of a large-scale initiative. In many ways, my institution has been good to me.

Higher education

Single Stop

JANUARY 29, 2025

Upswing currently works with external partners to provide mental health support, academic workshops, and more. Upswing and Single Stop Announce Partnership to Empower Marginalized Students NEW YORK, Jan. For more information, visit [link] or schedule a demo to learn more.

Students

Timely MD

JANUARY 24, 2025

If youre a university counselor, mental health professional, or college student, heres everything you need to know about how CEEP works and its critical role on campuses. Reducing the strain on on-campus mental health resources. What is the CEEP program? Who is eligible? The sudden loss of faculty, staff, or students.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Kevin Cokley There is a lot of confusion surrounding the Trump administrations interpretation of Title VI, the federal law that bans race, color, or national origin-based discrimination in education. At the core of the current administrations concerns about illegal programs is the use of racial classification.

Mental health

COE

MAY 2, 2025

The Trump Administration’s budget proposal claims that access to college is not the obstacle it was for students of limited means. This proposal is a direct attack on students who dare to dream of college in the face of adversity, said Kimberly Jones , President of the Council for Opportunity in Education. However, data from the U.S.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

With the Trump administration setting its sights on eliminating all DEI or diversity, equity and inclusion programs in higher education and other sectors, thefuture of AANAPISIs one of the youngest types of federally-designated MSIs, or Minority-Serving Institutions is uncertain.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. He explained that many campus administrators are self-imposing various versions of DEI rollbacks even when not legislatively mandated. The re-election of President Donald J.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Sailesh Maharjan, a lecturer and mental health first aid trainer at California State University, San Bernardino (CSUSB), wasn’t quite sure he would fit in at the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education (ASHE). “I Maharjan's dissertation is focused on student mental health and engagement.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 30, 2025

The National Institutes of Health, which awarded $36.94 The report documents that approximately 780 NIH grants were terminated or faced cancellation by March 2025 under new administrative priorities. The economic impact extends far beyond university campuses.

Grant

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. More Than 10,000 TRIO Alumni Urge Congress to Protect Federal TRIO Programs June 3, 2025 by Terrance L.

First generation

COE

JUNE 11, 2025

Targeting TRIO for complete elimination in its most recent budget proposal to Congress, the Trump Administration wrongly claimed that “access to college is no longer the barrier it once was for low-income students.” She served as White House Deputy Director of Hispanic Media in the Obama Administration.

First generation

COE

JULY 8, 2025

Collins says she helped secure Upward Bound funding for Maine Massachusetts: Trump cuts would devastate community colleges, undermining lower-income students striving to better their lives Massachusetts: Programs to support N.H.s Blog Revised FAFSA Release Date Pushed Back – What You Need to Know!

First generation

Believe in Students

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Believe in Students was founded in 2016, at the dawn of the first Trump administration. And in the wake of the pandemic, these challenges were exacerbated by the strains on mental health experienced by all Americans, college students or not. Those endowments the incoming administration is talking about taxing?

Grant

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2025

The action comes just weeks before the new school year begins, with school districts across the country scrambling to address massive budget shortfalls created by the Trump administration's funding freeze. "As The largest portion consists of $2.2

Title IV

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2023

Taken place at the Atlanta University Center’s Woodruff’s Library, the “Changing the Paradigm” symposium began its two-day conference with a discussion on mental health. Kimbrough , Interim Executive Director for BMRI, wants the symposium to dive deeply into mental health and how it affects Black men and their communities.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

University administrators have been reacting in various ways to student activism, from canceling graduations to involving the police to arresting or dismissing students from school, and many schools have begun this school year with all-out encampment bans. Make mental health a natural part of the conversation.

Mental health

Active Minds

MARCH 16, 2023

“You can’t afford to not pay attention to what’s going on with student mental health.” That sentiment has inspired Active Minds’ work for nearly two decades, including the recent release of our report “Lessons from Black Colleges on Mental Health and Wellbeing.”

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The United Negro College Fund (UNCF), mental health nonprofit The Steve Fund, and the Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF) are partnering for a national initiative to support mental health at Black colleges and universities. The initiative is a response to the declining mental health of U.S. Dr. Michael L.

Mental health