Counselors' Corner

JANUARY 15, 2025

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. In your book, you seem to suggest students should think about college as early as eighth grade. Doesnt that approach just expose them that much sooner to the stress and expectations of a complex process that can take the joy out of learning? I could understand why the questioner seemed a little, well, hostile.

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JANUARY 7, 2025

The foundation will distribute $935,000 in grants to 10 local nonprofits in San Diego providing services including tutoring, counseling, and college application assistance. "We are grateful to our donors for these significant gifts that will help local young people pursue a quality education and grow our region's future leaders."

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FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Only 29% of colleges have a counseling center that is accredited, and just 28% conduct formal wellness screenings of their students. Forty-four percent of institutions do not have a fully staffed counseling center open year-round, and 13% lack a website that consolidates information about the schools mental health services.

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JANUARY 22, 2025

The center serves as a one-stop destination where students can access tutoring, academic advising, career counseling, and various support services designed to help them navigate their academic journey successfully. The introduction of the Fannie Jackson Coppin Scholars program has been another game-changer in student success.

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JUNE 5, 2025

Jason King Jason King has been named senior vice president for legal affairs and general counsel at Hofstra University. Earlier in his career, King was an associate at Akers & Boulware-Wells, LLP, and assistant general counsel for the Texas Ethics Commission. billion research portfolio from foreign influence and misconduct.

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Counselors' Corner

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

The COVID crisis threw a lot of things into disarray, from families to schools to school counseling curricula. 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.

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JUNE 17, 2025

This helps reduce the stigma that prevents students from seeking help, counseling, and accommodations — free from fear of judgment, discrimination, or being singled out. By fostering proactive, community-wide approaches, higher ed institutions can ensure that support is accessible and responsive to the experiences of the entire student body.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The CCAMPIS program allows colleges to use grant funding to subsidize child care costs for Pell Grant-eligible students, support campus-based or community-based child care programs, provide before or after-school services, or offer student support like financial and career counseling.

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MAY 15, 2025

Bonner II is Professor and Endowed Chair in Educational Leadership and Counseling, and Executive Director and Chief Scientist of the MACH-III Center at Prairie View A&M University. We will continue to innovate, to challenge, and to lead in developing the next generation of equity-minded higher education professionals. Dr. Fred A.

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JANUARY 26, 2025

His research spans multiple disciplines, including school counseling, urban education, and STEM. A nationally recognized expert on African American males, Moore has had a distinguished career in higher education as a researcher and a champion for diversityboth in his work at the National Science Foundation and at OSU.

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MARCH 27, 2025

Ifill previously served as the seventh president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund (LDF) for nearly a decade. Civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill, who holds the Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., Endowed Chair on Civil Rights at the Law School, will lead the center.

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OCTOBER 31, 2024

There are needs with food, housing, mental health support and counseling. … “Title V allows us to meet academic needs in really wonderful ways with tutoring and professional development for faculty, but our students have a lot of other needs and we’re seeing that more and more,” said Fabrizio.

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JANUARY 14, 2025

in counseling & human development, University of Georgia Career mentors: Dr. Darris Means, Clemson University; Dr. Tiffany J. Title: Assistant Professor of Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration, University of Vermont Tenured: No Age: 34 Education: B.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Hampshire College; M.A.

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MARCH 13, 2025

Meanwhile, research increasingly shows that comprehensive support services like counseling, basic needs assistance, and mental health care directly impact student achievement, especially for historically underserved populations.

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JANUARY 24, 2025

Eligible health services include but are not limited to, psychological services, counseling, nursing services, physical therapy, Medicaid outreach and case management. Unfortunately, the demand for student health services often exceeds a community colleges resources.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

We know that many early childhood educators face a host of layered challenges: economic insecurity, family obligations, language barriers, and more.

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JANUARY 27, 2025

Hines is Professor of Counseling in the College of Education and Human Development at George Mason University. Ford is Distinguished Professor of Education and Human Ecology in the College of Education and Human Ecology at The Ohio State University. Dr. Erik M. Dr. Tanya J.

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MARCH 12, 2025

Their approach includes mental health counseling, on-demand emotional support, medical care, and various coaching services, providing students with accessible options beyond traditional campus hours.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Companies like TimelyMD want to fill the gap that can be created when institutions (and their counseling centers) close for the winter break, said Seli Fakorzi, director of mental health operations at TimelyMD. TimelyMD helps students connect with counseling services no matter where they go home for the holidays.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2025

Holcomb-McCoys long career in higher education leadership includes serving as vice provost for Faculty Affairs campus-wide and vice dean of Academic Affairs in the School of Education at Johns Hopkins University, where she launched the Johns Hopkins School Counseling Fellows Program and the Faculty Diversity Initiative.

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OCTOBER 22, 2024

She has also been an associate professor in the Department of Counseling and Personnel Services at the University of Maryland College Park and director of the School Counseling Program at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. "Dr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2025

School counselors can provide individual and group counseling or classroom guidance lessons on matching the courses needed for STEM careers and explain the why in which they are needed to be successful. Teachers and administrators must join forces with them to improve Black student achievement and overall well-being.

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JULY 31, 2024

The university plans to enhance its existing on-campus counseling capabilities with additional teletherapy that matches students seeking help with a licensed therapist based on student needs and preferences.

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MARCH 31, 2025

Toldson, professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and recipient of AABHEs Distinguished Cultural Award, urged attendees to fiercely defend academic freedom. They expressed frustrations about feeling hamstrung in their efforts to serve students from underrepresented groups and conceded that many of them had begun to self-censor.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

The report, “ From Burnout to Breakthroughs ,” conducted by Appily , a division of education company EAB , released the findings on Thursday at the National Association for College Admission Counseling ( #NACAC ) annual conference. “The

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JULY 23, 2024

Beard holds a bachelor’s degree in rehabilitation counseling from FAMU and a master’s and Ph.D. in rehabilitation counseling from Florida State University. “In Larry Robinson , who received heavy critique of his handling of a dubious $237.75

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JANUARY 14, 2025

At Moorpark, equity initiatives aimed at fostering student belonging and engagement include the use of secure two-way texting by admissions, financial aid, counseling, and other departments. Students learn that they have a person who cares about them at the college.

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JUNE 16, 2025

TRIO doesn’t provide free tuition, but offers academic tutoring, mentoring, financial guidance, personal counseling, and career services that help students. TRIO helped me as a first-generation college student in ways my family couldn’t.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

His academic credentials include a doctorate in pastoral counseling from Loyola University Maryland and a Licentiate in Sacred Theology from the former Weston Jesuit School of Theology. Thomas University in Miami, he entered the Society of Jesus in 1991 after earning a master's degree in theology from Providence College.

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JANUARY 11, 2024

Rachel Nosowsky Rachel Nosowsky has been appointed chief counsel for University of California, San Francisco Health. She served as an advisor for the University of California Office of the General Counsel based in Oakland. Nosowsky holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law.

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Active Minds

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Campus and Community Counseling Centers For students, we recommend reaching out to the counseling centers at your schools to find affordable mental health care options or connecting directly with trained professionals provided by your school. For example, residents of Washington, D.C.,

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School Counselor Blog

JANUARY 24, 2025

To add an interactive element to our ACSCA Winter Meeting and to promote National School Counseling Week, I got the idea to create a photo wall and selfie station. To make the National School Counseling Week Photo Wall and Selfie Station I used the following: Photo Wall Backdrop (I have used this many times and it holds up so well!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Gretchen Groggel Ralston has been appointed vice president and general counsel at Smith College in Massachusetts. Groggel Ralston previously served in a similar role at Simmons University, a women-focused university in Boston. Groggel Ralston has a bachelor’s degree from Colby College and a J.D.

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MARCH 29, 2023

Morehouse Finance major Anthony Hunter, President of Counseling Humans in Life Lessons (AUC CHILL), gave his perspective on this subject regarding students in the AUC. “The purpose of creating our organization 11 years ago was to be a bridge between students and administrators- students and the campus counseling center,” Hunter said.

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MARCH 1, 2023

And the Know Before You Owe Federal Student Loan Act would strengthen current loan counseling requirements for higher ed institutions, require loan counseling annually, and allow students to decide exactly how much they would like to borrow. “We And we’ve introduced a bill to improve loan counseling.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Mpoli Simwanza-Johnson Mpoli Simwanza-Johnson has been named general counsel for the Colorado State University Foundation. She served as director of legal affairs at the University of Wisconsin Foundation in Madison. Simwanza-Johnson holds a juris doctorate from the Thomas M. Cooley Law School in Lansing, Michigan.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Extending financial aid counseling hours: SLU will offer extended financial aid counseling hours to accommodate families' questions and concerns, both online and in person, meeting them wherever they are in the process.

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