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For HSIs, “Servingness” is a Journey, Not an Endpoint

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The federal government, on the other hand, uses a straightforward numerical definition to classify as Hispanic Serving Institutions any two- or four-year nonprofit degree-granting college or university where enrollment is at least 25% Latine. Latine students graduate from college at lower rates than many of their peers.

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Dismantling the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We allow “elite” institutions to define excellence; we support the “screening out” of students in the name of academic rigor; and we presume there is but one way to legitimately make it through college — on a fixed timeline and with a particular experience.

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Dear Tyler and Jay: How do you maintain a strong connection in an LDR?

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

It’s definitely becoming cozy season. appeared first on Johns Hopkins University Student Well-Being. Hello Blue Jays! We’re really starting to see and feel autumn (at least here in Baltimore) these past few weeks. But what should you do when you’re in an LDR and your person isn’t physically close to you?

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Dear Tyler and Jay: Does true love exist?

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

Had I been given a clear definition of love earlier in my life it would not have taken me so long to become a loving person. appeared first on Johns Hopkins University Student Well-Being. And this not knowing feels like a terrible secret, a lack that we have to cover up. The post Dear Tyler and Jay: Does true love exist?

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Poll Highlights Top Concerns of Enrollment Leaders

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MR: Her observation is that some of the students that she's serving, these are very able students. Well able to go to college, are just like, "Whoa." And kind of stiffen their spine of thought, "Okay, I can push through this, I can figure out how to make it work." And it starts to make them think, "Maybe this isn't for me."

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Is it cute or creepy: Media’s normalization of stalking behavior

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

A Legal Definition of Stalking. The issue with the definition of stalking is that it varies by jurisdiction, the respective locations of the stalker and the target, requires proof of intent to harm, and that the behavior causes ‘reasonable fear’ or causes a ‘reasonable person fear.’ Love Is Respect.