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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 24, 2024
Throughout the year, mentors can provide mentees with information about mental health resources available on campus. When a peer is talking to you about it, itβs a more real perspective,β said Setzer. The data and the voices of the students tell you what you are doing or not doing as effectively as you can.β
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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
Gina Garcia, professor of policy, politics, and leadership at Berkeley School of Education, University of California, Berkeley, to serve as our fall professional development day opening speaker β to provide insight for our campus as we continue our journey, serving as an Hispanic Serving Institution.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
As the technological world continues to rapidly change and progress, it can leave users in underrepresented communities behind. I call myself a futurist, because Iβm not just thinking about how we reinterpret information to be used now and in the future, but what do we need to be thinking about in the future?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
OCTOBER 30, 2023
CHICAGO-- The journey to diversify the workforce can be long and arduous, but should be one of the nationβs top priorities, said a group of corporate executives who appeared on a panel at the Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities (HACU) annual conference. We can never be complacent in the work,β she warned. βWe
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 22, 2024
Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab Here are ten things Iβve learned can be helpful when you decide to speak up. 8) Set a Google alert on your name so youβll know promptly if people are talking badly about you. 10) Talk to your loved ones about what you are doing. It also made me admire the incredible scholar activists who lit the way.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 5, 2024
What the Mellon grant does is it allows us to bring the department to full scale, meaning that we can actually hire up to nine to 12 people in a three-year period," McCune said. We had to find outside funding that would facilitate the expedition of hiring,β he said. McCune, Jr.,
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 28, 2024
βIf I have students living on campus in housing and they get sick, what are we going to do, say βgo in the morning?ββ If I can meet your basic needs, and if I can get you here because of basic needs, I can get you out of here,β he says. Curry isnβt just talking about career and technical education (CTE) programs.
Active Minds
MARCH 26, 2024
” Young girls can now watch Barbie and see a woman as president or listen to BeyoncΓ© and hear the most decorated Grammy-winning performing artist of all time. The key lies in how we socialize many young girls to be self-conscious whereas boys the same age are being taught self-control.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 16, 2024
This study, for us, was about seeking to understand the scale of the gender and race issues we face as a field and to document the disparities we see as baseline data to help track our progress towards more equitable work environments over time.β We gravitate toward color-blindness and approaches that value equality over equity.β
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
APRIL 6, 2023
The non-verbal form of trash-talking or trolling is familiar to contact sports like basketball. I'm from Baltimore, where you hoop outside & talk trash. "If Reese is not the only basketball player who has faced backlash for trash talk within women's sports. Athletes trash talk. I'm too ghetto.' I'm not done.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 1, 2024
We think itβs crucially important for the growth and development of student athletes and for everyone involved that we have DEI, always. We want to be leaders in that,β says Hoeg. The states where the terminology DEI is under attack β we didnβt see that part coming,β says Hoeg. The strategy is groundbreaking.
Active Minds
JANUARY 20, 2023
But letβs be honest: especially when it comes to the impact of bullying on mental health, we know that this is far from true. We all have a voice in our head whispering encouragement, doubt, or everything in between. For some, this self-talk might be more positive where the whispers are: βWe got this!β Youβre awesome!β.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 24, 2024
Roslyn Artis, president of Benedict College, aptly put it when talking with us, "HBCUs serve their communities by understanding that they must be engines of economic growth and prosperity." Economic needs can only be met sustainably when HBCUs actively engage residents in decision-making processes and foster economic growth collaboratively.
Active Minds
DECEMBER 11, 2023
In my ten years at the organization, I have seen the power of grassroots advocacy in improving mental health culture nationwide β but Iβve also seen the toll it can take on young changemakers. Anyone over the age of 18 can also access free professional peer support sessions through our friends at Peer.net. Not sure what to say?
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 6, 2024
Well before the first college lecture, however, newly enrolled college students should consider a couple questions and a few simple steps that can lower barriers to college success. The βWhoβ list can remind you that you are stronger, better, less alone, and more resilient that the current situation would want you to feel.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 7, 2022
Cochrane is a member of the Faculty Academy, a statewide initiative that trains faculty in a pedagogy called βReal Talk,β created by Dr. Paul Hernandez, senior advisor to the president and CEO at Achieving the Dream (ATD), a partner network of over 300 community colleges working to equitize higher education.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 13, 2024
The growing prominence of artificial intelligence tools in the mainstream can strengthen the work of higher education in a variety of ways, according to a report commissioned by HBCU support organization the Partnership for Education Advancement. " Finch, vice president for enrollment management at the institution.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
A lot of parents respected that he was trying to raise the bar of where he thought we could go,β says Howard. βHe A connection to Compton Itβs impossible to talk about Howardβs impressive and meteoric rise, both in and outside of academe, without interrogating Comptonβs impact on his life. He was elected and served a three-year term.
Active Minds
MAY 1, 2023
First, we needed to open up the conversation about mental health β stigma was incredibly pervasive, and far too many people were struggling in silence. Weβre teaming up with youth and young adults nationwide to say, βLetβs Talk About Mental Health.β Share the link with your circle too β we want as many advocates involved as possible.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 26, 2024
College leaders serious about improving student success and graduating the learners who enroll in their institutions should ask themselves these five questions as we head into 2024: Do we have programs that work for someone living day to day? Four- and eight-week courses and shorter terms can accelerate student learning.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 19, 2024
βWeβve been working to close the gap in education for nearly 30 years, to dismantle racial, gender, social and economic inequities that plague so many of our students across the country, and we do it in partnership with you,β said Marshall. We are living through the inevitable backlash,β she added.
Active Minds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
Although talking about mental health and suicide can be challenging, it is a conversation that we canβt avoid. can be incredibly valuable in allowing someone to feel heard and valued. It is just as important to understand the warning signs of suicidal ideation and be aware of available resources that you can tap into.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 11, 2023
Elections are so essential to who we are as a country,β Alexander said. βI That includes things like just talking with each other. It requires us to talk with each other and to engage in self-governance.β He advises people to look for a way to at least talk to each other. And you might find a way to talk to them.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
NOVEMBER 1, 2023
Thereβs work as a field, as a sector that we have to do in order to ensure that equitably, our numbers are rebounding.β The upscale in the numbers, said Gordon who founded Diversity Abroad 17 years ago, is largely due to resource allocation and the student leaders who have championed the importance and benefits of education abroad programs.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 13, 2023
Jackson said she was eager to help create an environment where solutions can be developed by HBCU leaders. βI kept thinking they have their finger on the pulse of all things, and I mean they are training the next generation of workers,β said Jackson, with regards to HBCU leaders. βSo Many are second career.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JULY 17, 2023
When weβre talking about our communities in D.C., especially our underrepresented communities, we know that we need people we can trust,β said Charletta Washington, PHIT4DC program director at UDC. βSo,
Active Minds
MARCH 8, 2023
As a woman, mother of three, and student, Iβd like to talk about the impact of recently proposed policies concerning reproductive freedom on student mental health and the importance of reproductive rights in protecting our well-being. I was talked down to or treated like an ignorant person; I was not offered options.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MARCH 6, 2024
Excelenciaβs leadership recommended these institutions should be models for others, to create more pipelines from which promising Latinx talent can connect with high-wage earning jobs. Increasingly, we are seeing an increase in institutions that are Seal certified for intentionality in serving students.β
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 3, 2024
Culture is this place where we try to make sense of a really complex world in our own little local context,β says McMillan Cottom. He's like this really great methodologist and this really sophisticated theorist, but, you know, love him or hate him, Du Bois absolutely understood his work as needing to talk to other people.β
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 2, 2023
Recruitment in Indian country is not as simple as recruiting in a city where you can in one day hit five high schools,β said Dr. Charles M. We have an enrollment of about 1,500 students every year,β said Roessel. βWe We lose 500 every year, and we gain 500. Jon Edelman can be reached at JEdelman@DiverseEducation.com.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 17, 2024
Ellen Pinderhughes, Tufts University; Angela Patton, Girls for a Change; and Eunique Jones Gibson, Because of Them, We Can Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: βIn the words of Wilma Rudolph, βnever underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
DECEMBER 12, 2023
With courses ranging from βSociology of Race and Ethnicityβ and βContemporary Issues in the Black Communityβ to βThe Black Arts Movementβ and βThe Civil Rights and Black Power Movement,β students at Massasoit can now pursue the interdisciplinary degree at the two-year school, both online and in-person.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
FEBRUARY 25, 2024
We, as an education community, can apply some lessons from Freedom Summer and help guide these students toward successful pathways that include acquiring industry-recognized credentials. They would sleep on the plantations and work them just to try to talk to people.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 18, 2024
None of that will work unless we first find our footing, and that requires saying the quiet parts out loud. Those people donβt appreciate jargon, being talked down to, or feeling duped. All of that can be true at the same time and still not help us find ways forward. We spend a lot of class time building upper body strength.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JUNE 16, 2023
Together, we have built a community that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and the belief that education can transform lives.β Together, we have built a community that thrives on collaboration, innovation, and the belief that education can transform lives.β Dr. Ben Vinson is slated to replace Frederick in September.
Active Minds
NOVEMBER 29, 2023
Change can take on many forms and manifest in several ways, from minor adjustments to our daily routines to more significant transitions such as a new job, ending relationships, or relocating to a new city. These shifts can be planned or unexpected and, above all else, a daunting experience. We see parallels happen in our own media.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 8, 2024
What we need to do is make a funding model thatβs based on an attainment goal, work it backwards with equity at the heart so that we can actually have these colleges act as the engines of social mobility that theyβre supposed to be.β We still need to keep pushing to get the reforms in place that work.
Active Minds
JUNE 23, 2023
To normalize talking about how we’re doing, we must recognize that these emotions play intensely into our ability to be vulnerable and open. Once they recognize these patterns in their thinking, they can reframe them into thoughts that help them. Several factors prevented me from getting the help that I needed.
Active Minds
DECEMBER 11, 2022
Iβll be honest: talking about mental health and Active Minds with Rory McIlroy was not on my 2022 bingo card. Students are experiencing mental distress before they even step foot in a high school β itβs so important that we meet them where they are, and now, weβre prepared to do just that. .
Active Minds
MARCH 10, 2023
Professional athletes like Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka have made clear the impact their mental well-being has on their athletic performance, and we are better understanding how we can support student athletes in protecting their mental health in the same way we work to safeguard their physical well-being every day.
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
MAY 22, 2023
What would motivate me to talk to some white boy over in the gymnasium?β Scott devoured the book and arranged to have coffee with Freeman, where they talked for two hours, sharing their journeys. We began to realize that if we, as old folks, had come to a reckoning with our own selves, certainly young people would too,β said Scott. βWe
Active Minds
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Self-advocacy is a powerful tool, especially as we navigate a world with systems that are not structured to serve us. Growing up in a Hispanic household where mental health was not talked about nor prioritized, it was tough for me to know what resources were available to serve me. We hope to see you there!
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
JANUARY 23, 2023
I think weβre trying to figure out how we reach a new normal.β 93% of respondents thought that students have become more comfortable talking about mental health. By and large, students are really talking about it more than the so-called adults on campuses,β said Dunkle. Weβve been traumatized as a nation,β he said. βI
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