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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That is largely because these justice-impacted students are often invisible to educators, their identities simply erased.

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Student Success Systems Show Dramatic Impact on Course Failure, Chronic Absenteeism Rates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Schools implementing comprehensive student success systems are achieving substantial reductions in chronic absenteeism and course failure rates — two critical predictors of high school graduation — according to new data released by the GRAD Partnership.

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The Missed Opportunity: Student Affairs and Human Resources Collaboration to [Re]engage College Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jonelle Knox When I reviewed the question posed to me about [re]engaging the college community, I started thinking about a missed opportunity that many colleges and university leaders are not taking advantage of; the collaboration of student affairs and human resources to create [re]engagement activities.

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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this practice, educators are committed to the success of historically marginalized student subgroups by countering oppressive pedagogies. This happens by first acknowledging structural issues and then reducing negative impacts on students (Hill et al., This marriage is needed now more than ever before. Dr. Erik M.

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UNCF Spotlights HBCUs as Engines of Social Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a funder, she envisions HBCUs working collaboratively with each other, noting, “Collaboration is a force multiplier when it comes to thinking about things like scale and impact.” For the last three years, ACE has worked to develop a classification that is more directly focused on student success.

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Intentionality is Key in First-generation Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Education is a human right regardless of one’s background, and access and support should be readily available to those in need. We are fully committed to first-generation students, but commitment is just the start. In addition to our CAMP scholars, the number of first-generation students at St.

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Leger Fernández Introduces Campus Prevention, Recovery Services Legislation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The bill, which promotes evidence-based prevention and intervention strategies on college campuses, encourages integration and collaboration in campus-based health services to address substance use and mental health. Addiction is painful for everyone involved,” said Leger Fernández. Families suffer when we lose loved ones to overdose.