Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

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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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 8, 2025

The celebration of equity and access didnt always come with a true sense of belonging. We led programs, mentored, and fought for systemic change, all while carrying the weight of leadership in spaces that were not always ready to change. We believed we were part of something bigger, beautiful, and transformational. Complicated.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

In counseling, racial trauma shapes not only the emotional lives of clients but also the clinical and personal responses of counselors. For instance, one Mexican American graduate student I mentored was supporting a Spanish-speaking client who had experienced trauma from an immigration raid that separated him from his family.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Old Dominion University ODU’s Holmes Scholars program – its primary goal is equity, diversity and cultural competence in higher ed and PK-12 schools – will offer mentorship, peer support, and professional development. It’s really helpful and impactful to be connected to people who are in similar situations.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

They shared a common spirit in their separate spheres: to advance people of color through mentoring and teaching. He mentored generations of students and colleagues, from being one of only three Black faculty members and the first Black tenure-track professor at Indiana University to his long-time service at Howard University.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

This fellowship gives Black, Indigenous, and students of Color (BIPOC) students the opportunity to be mentored by national experts in the mental health field as they complete independent, funded research projects. Baker is a doctoral student in counseling psychology at Columbia University’s Teachers College. Baker Brianna A.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 18, 2024

The panelists expressed gratitude and pride over being recognized for some of the diversity and equity work that they’ve been doing, work that typically does not garner widespread attention. Mayes, an associate professor of counseling in the University of Arizona’s department of disability & psychoeducational studies. “I

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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. By example, the counseling/advising unit uses an intrusive model, monitoring students’ progress and regularly checking in on them. He would counsel me and reassure me.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Additionally, don’t forget to take stock of your social capital and support in your life and at your disposal: friends, family, mentors, and personal and professional networks. Yes, most campuses have counseling centers, but are they accessible, adequately resourced, and inclusive? Because knowledge is power, spread the word.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Another Black student, Ava, was interviewed about the distinctly few counselors of color available at her school’s counseling center. Let’s move to page 47,’” Sabrina, a Black student who was interviewed by EdTrust for the report, said about their school not having enough support for students of color.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Many of the programs that we put into existence are things that I wish that I had had,” says Watford, associate dean of equity and engagement and executive director of CEED. Those freshmen remained bonded and, in time, became mentors. by mentoring girls and young women to keep going in engineering. Watford says.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 29, 2024

But, in your role of diversity, equity, and inclusion officer, as a residence hall director, in those roles as educators in that space, it is your educational responsibility [to teach those identities].” Griffith, chief equity programs officer at Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, first came to know him. “In

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 14, 2023

Toldson, a professor of counseling psychology at Howard University and the national director of education innovation and research for the NAACP. “If The human instructor can place more emphasis on things like giving emotional support to their students, encouraging them, [and] mentoring them.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 26, 2023

However in junior high school, it was a Black American school counselor that influenced my career trajectory into the counseling profession. I also wanted them to mentor me, particularly the Black male instructor, as I could see my future self in him. In other words, I erroneously thought students across the country had Black teachers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 16, 2024

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. Even if he wanted to go to the counseling center, there weren’t counselors competent to discuss issues related to his coming out process. The opposite is true for Leyva. “As

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Based on data gathered, we increased support services such as Ram Pantry, counseling, technology availability, and academic advising,” he continues. CSUN has put an infrastructure in place for faculty and staff recruitment, including equity review officers.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

To ensure fairness and equity in the financial aid process, schools must rely on objective criteria. Social-emotional support services, such as counseling, can help students adjust to a new school environment and build strong relationships with their peers.

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School & Student Services by Community Brands

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Mentorship and Support Programs: Academic Support: Provide academic support services, such as tutoring and counseling, to ensure the success of financial aid recipients. Mentorship Programs: Pair students with mentors who can provide guidance, support, and role models.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

v To ensure stakeholders can answer important, equity-minded questions, policymakers should establish a student-level data network that connects data to illuminate student pathways and outcomes , especially for transfer students.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 21, 2024

Hines Our co-edited book, Black Males in Secondary and Postsecondary Education: Teaching, Mentoring, Advising and Counseling, is one of the most comprehensive textbooks on Black males. An antiracist approach to counseling gifted Black boys with disabilities. Dr. Erik M. Hines and E.C. Fletcher (Eds.). Emerald Publishing Limited.

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EAB

DECEMBER 8, 2022

That’s because on campuses that are predominantly white and majority female , it’s harder for Black and Latino men to find peer groups, mentors, role models, and places where they can just be themselves. Early mentor matching not only helps reduce summer melt, but it also means each student sees at least one familiar face at orientation.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

They have general programs like mentoring programs, orientation and things of that nature, but nothing very specific to those populations. So starting from the very beginning, going all the way through graduation when they're becoming mentors to the new incoming class of students. AS: Yeah, and I think it's harder for men.

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COE

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Recording notes about our students is now a breeze, ensuring that every counseling session and important detail is documented. Schedule a demo empower ’ s individual student services tracking goes beyond grades and testing, providing insights into financial aid, application status, and other crucial data.

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EAB

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

So Let's Get Ready is a national near-peer mentoring organization. We're committed to educational equity and we focus on students from 11th grade all the way through to college graduation. And just to put that in perspective too, the National School Counseling Association actually recommends a ratio of 250 to 1. JS: Yes, yes.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 6, 2024

While states decide how long a young person can remain (or elect to remain) in the foster care system, many lose their financial and counseling supports at the age of 18 or 21. These students are offered financial aid, housing priority, counseling, and opportunities for career and leadership development.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

When I started my doctoral work, what I started to sort of realize is, even as someone who had a really strong awareness of equity and justice and all the various different issues, there were still people in groups, in concepts that were missing,” Stewart says. psychology, Ohio State University; M.A., He dove even deeper into the research.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 22, 2023

We have a long way to go to achieve equity in the academy for Black males. Partner with community members, especially Black men, to serve as mentors and role models in the college-going and transition process. Hines, Fletcher, & Moore, in press, p. Fletcher Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 6, 2023

De los Santos, a posthumous recipient of a 2023 Diverse Champions Award, is remembered by colleagues as a great friend, an outstanding mind, and a determined educator who placed access and equity at the center of his work. Gerardo de los Santos said his father mentored numerous individuals and pushed them to get their doctorates.

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COE

MARCH 14, 2024

Hamm Although not a TRIO alumnus himself, with hard work and the support of quality educators and mentors, Secretary Cardona became a first-generation college graduate. Although not a TRIO alumnus himself, with hard work and the support of quality educators and mentors, Secretary Cardona became a first-generation college graduate.

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Timely MD

MAY 2, 2023

This type of care can include counseling services, gender-affirming resources, and support for hormone therapy and gender-confirmation surgery. Offering support groups and counseling services Many TGNC students experience mental health challenges related to their gender identity , including depression, anxiety, and gender dysphoria.

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COE

APRIL 10, 2024

My Journey of Resilience and Gratitude for TRIO Student Support Services April 10, 2024 Fast forward 16 years, I now have a master’s degree, a house I bought myself, a non-profit I co-founded that supports women and girls locally, and a career counseling practice I’m proud of.

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Timely MD

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Peer mentoring programs are very successful in this regard. And, equitable implementation incorporates equity and inclusion into implementation practice to ensure the needs of students of color and underserved groups are being addressed at all stages of the approach on college campuses.

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Timely MD

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Peer mentoring programs are very successful in this regard. And, equitable implementation incorporates equity and inclusion into implementation practice to ensure the needs of students of color and underserved groups are being addressed at all stages of the approach on college campuses.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

As a teacher, mentor, colleague and friend, he was beloved." Sandridge, who worked alongside Casteen for more than 20 years, noted that Casteen's experience as a first-generation student drove his commitment to educational equity. "He As president, he transformed UVA into a world-class university.

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Active Minds

AUGUST 21, 2023

She is a youth mentor, mental health advocate, and entrepreneur who is interested in Active Minds because she wants to change the stigma surrounding mental health and how African-Americans feel about mental health and mental health resources. She even started her own nonprofit, Beyond Taiwan.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Department of Education and to penalize institutions that fund diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. Hotchkins, an associate professor of higher education in the department of Educational Psychology, Leadership, & Counseling at Texas Tech University, has been coming to the annual conference since 2010. “It

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