Active Minds

MAY 10, 2023

Change is difficult and isolating. The transition from high school to college was no different. Leaving home and moving to a different state while experiencing a complete social reset certainly impacted how I understood mental health. When I started college, I did not prioritize mental health due to my simplistic understanding of it — I did not know the value of genuinely connecting with others on a deeper level or the impact that loneliness would have on my ability to manage my mental health du

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Student Minds

MAY 20, 2023

As the end of the academic year approaches, the Editorial Team come together to share their thoughts on what comes next. - Student Minds Editorial Team ✨ What happens next? ✨ ⭐ Grace (Graduate): When I look back as a graduate at how my final year came to a close, it’s safe to say that things ended a little differently than usual. In fact, for me, there wasn’t much of an ending at all.

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Active Minds

MAY 1, 2023

When I founded Active Minds nearly twenty years ago, a few things were clear to me. First, we needed to open up the conversation about mental health — stigma was incredibly pervasive, and far too many people were struggling in silence. Second, I knew where I had to start: college campuses. Young adults were going to be the ones to change social norms because as a generation we just weren’t afraid of talking about mental health anymore, and as a recent college grad myself, I was confident that t

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

Education leaders and researchers discussed the vast disparities in the number of educators of color and potential ways to help recruit them during a panel of the Southern Education Foundation (SEF) Equity Assistance Center-South’s (EAC-South) Educational Equity Indicators Professional Learning Series. Sharif El-Mekki This second session of the “How to Improve Educator Recruitment and Retention: Stories from the South” series took virtually on Tuesday.

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Speaker: Andrew Cohen, Founder & CEO of Brainscape

The instructor’s PPT slides are brilliant. You’ve splurged on the expensive interactive courseware. Student engagement is stellar. So… why are half of your students still forgetting everything they learned in just a matter of weeks? It's likely a matter of cognitive science! With so much material to "teach" these days, we often forget to incorporate key proven principles into our curricula — namely active recall, metacognition, spaced repetition, and interleaving practice.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 15, 2023

By: Kim Dancy Last month, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) announced a series of updates to its College Scorecard —a free online resource designed to help prospective college students compare institutions using data such as tuition costs, graduation rates, and post-college earnings. Policymakers, institutional leaders, and researchers can also leverage this data to shed light on postsecondary education today.

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Steve Keating

MAY 18, 2023

Integrity is the single most important ingredient for Authentic Leadership. From integrity springs trust and absent trust there can be no actual followership. For a leader to truly lead they need the commitment of the people they lead. People cannot commit to someone they do not trust. It is emotionally impossible. When people trust their leaders, they are more likely to be engaged, productive, and willing to go the extra mile.

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Student Minds

MAY 3, 2023

Oscar shares how learning that he’s autistic has impacted on his mental health recovery. - Oscar Sharples I started experiencing symptoms of depression around age 11, and for the next eight years, my life was consumed by the difficulties that these diagnoses presented as I grew through my teenage years. But the journey to another diagnosis also made a huge difference: learning that I am autistic has been one of the most transformative things in my mental health recovery.

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Active Minds

MAY 24, 2023

I remember when I was beginning to struggle with my borderline personality disorder (BPD) symptoms. I asked my psychiatrist, “What is my diagnosis?” and she refused to tell me. I later learned that I fit the criteria for BPD, but my psychiatrist did not want to label me. When I went on the internet searching for support groups, I found stories of people who had been abused by those with BPD, and that marked us as manipulative and attention-seeking.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 10, 2023

University of Delaware (UD) police are investigating after an English professor who is Jewish found a swastika drawn on a poster on her office door with the words, "We Are Everywhere," Delaware Online reported. The swastika was drawn on a poster promoting a drag performance the professor organized years ago. "This incident is in direct opposition to our institutional values supporting diversity, equity and inclusion, and we unequivocally denounce this and all expressions of hate, prejudice and d

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 16, 2023

By: Mamie Voight A few years ago, I had the opportunity to speak with a student about her experience pursuing a college education, and this student left an indelible mark on my mind. A typical day included studying and classwork, feeding and preparing her young children to be cared for by a family member, driving to her rural college campus—if she had gas money that week, counting on her on-campus job to offer granola bars so she could eat during the workday… and hoping that one small disruptio

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Steve Keating

MAY 25, 2023

One of the surest ways to “future proof” your organization is to make developing your future leaders a daily activity. Every day! Not when you “find” time, not when you “make” time and not tomorrow. Today and everyday. If you’re looking at developing future leaders as an expense, even a necessary one, then frankly, you’re looking at it wrong. The development of future leaders is an investment, it’s the one investment that is sure to provide a high rate of return.

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Cal Newport

MAY 4, 2023

Not long ago, my kids’ school asked me to give a talk to middle school students and their parents about smartphones. I’ve written extensively on the intersection of technology and society in both my books and New Yorker articles, but the specific issue of young people and phones is one I’ve only tackled on a small number of occasions (e.g., here and here ).

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Counseling Today

MAY 18, 2023

Approaching diagnosis through a lens that considers systemic, cultural and ecological factors leads to better treatment outcomes for clients. The post Conceptualizing diagnosis through a social justice lens appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Active Minds

MAY 2, 2023

Graduating from high school and college are monumental milestones in life, marked with enthusiasm for the future and bittersweet moments of closing one chapter in life before moving to another: adulthood. A defining moment of adulthood is deciding on a career path to pursue. Thousands of young adults in the Active Minds network graduate from high school and college every year wondering how they can continue to champion a culture that supports mental health as they pursue their careers.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 23, 2023

After large pandemic-related declines the past several years, community college enrollment grew this spring by 0.5%, or 22,000 students, compared to spring 2022. However, undergraduate enrollment at non-profit four-year institutions continued its decline, dropping 0.5% at public schools and 0.2% at private ones. That’s the topline finding from the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s Spring 2023 Current Term Enrollment Estimate report.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

MAY 11, 2023

IHEP President Mamie Voight (left) and U.S. Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary Education Nasser Paydar (right) at the U.S. Department of Education’s May 1, 2023 Raise the Bar Summit. By: Mamie Voight When U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona welcomed postsecondary leaders, researchers, and student success advocates to the U.S. Department of Education’s (ED) recent Raise the Bar Summit, he framed what it truly means to be a prestigious institution of higher education.

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Steve Keating

MAY 14, 2023

Managing is about stuff. We manage stuff like budgets, buildings and inventories. While we may get emotional over too much inventory we never have to worry about inventory getting emotional with us when we decide to have a sale to “blow out excess inventory.” Leadership on the other hand is all about people. People, like you and me and every other human being on the planet are emotional.

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Counselors' Corner

MAY 17, 2023

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. Students are wandering into your office, asking about summer programs that could fill what someone (like Mom or Dad) sees as way too empty of a summer schedule. My heart always went out to these kids, since they didn’t know most summer programs have February deadlines. On the other hand, most of those early registration programs cost way too much, and do way less for a student’s college application than most people believe.

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Counseling Today

MAY 8, 2023

Solutions to the nationwide mental health provider shortage are often as complex as the reasons behind it. The post A closer look at the mental health provider shortage appeared first on Counseling Today.

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Active Minds

MAY 8, 2023

Self-care has become one of the most talked about topics in the conversation of mental health. It dominates the online discourse, has found niches in countless industries, and has helped remove some of the stigmas around taking care of your well-being, whether it be through therapy, journaling, or even just resting. Self-care is critical to maintaining your mental health — but it’s also true that we can’t go through life alone, keeping our struggles and worries internally.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 18, 2023

In my elementary school there was one Black teacher, Ms. Terri Moore. I never had her as my teacher, but I knew she existed. She also knew me. We often smiled at each other in the hallway. In 5 th grade, Ms. Moore asked me to recite a speech for Black History Month. I stood in front of the entire school, my peers, teachers, and administrators, a sea of majority whiteness, and in February, a month dedicated to people who looked like me, and asked by the only Black teacher at the school, I celebra

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The Counseling Geek

MAY 5, 2023

The Ultimate School Counseling Hack ChatGPT for School Counselors How School Counselors Can Use ChatGPT to Enhance Their Comprehensive School Counseling Programs As schools continue to evolve and adapt to new challenges, one thing remains constant: the importance of providing comprehensive counseling services to support student well-being and success.

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Steve Keating

MAY 4, 2023

Dealing with people who use “alternate facts” can be a difficult and complex task. Sometimes the alternate facts are meant to “protect” the person they have been shared with. Other times the alternate facts are small in nature, these are often called little white lies. Occasionally, your relationship with the “truth challenged” individual is so insignificant that it doesn’t matter if they are living in some alternate universe.

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Student Loan Planner

MAY 24, 2023

Getting a loan as a first-time homebuyer can feel like a daunting task. After all, it’s one of the biggest and most complex purchases that you’re likely to make. But getting a home loan as a new physician can also come with its own pitfalls. With possibly six-figure debt from undergraduate and medical school, it […] The post A Physician’s Guide to Mortgage Loans for First-Time Homebuyers appeared first on Student Loan Planner.

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Counseling Today

MAY 12, 2023

Counseling can help adults with bullying behaviors learn to change how they relate to others and accept responsibility for their actions. The post Working with adults who bully appeared first on Counseling Today.

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COE

MAY 23, 2023

TRIO Alumna and Community Advocate Nkauj Iab Yang Works to Advance Equity “So All Communities Can Thrive” May 23, 2023 — by Holly Hexter Nkauj Iab Yang (pictured holding microphone, center) works with state legislators to secure special funds for community-based organizations providing mental health, legal services, and prevention programs in Asian American communities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 19, 2023

Rutgers University. The New School. University of Michigan. The University of California. Temple University. University of Illinois at Chicago. These are some of the schools embroiled in a wave of recent strikes in higher education in the U.S., as workers in the industry demand improvements from their institutions for their ongoing labor. Unions in higher ed may go on strike after months of bargaining and impasse in negotiations on issues and demands from higher ed employees such as wage increas

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CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

MAY 20, 2023

Each year, students and families file the FAFSA to help determine funding for their college careers. The 2023 FAFSA won’t open until December, which is later than normal. With the new updates, the deadline is already going to be stressful. Every year, many families fail. The post How to Prepare for Your FAFSA Application in the Spring appeared first on CFAA.

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Steve Keating

MAY 7, 2023

Somebody really smart once said that our lives our made from the choices we make. I believe, good or bad, we are all only one decision away from a completely different life. That means we need to be certain we are making the best decisions possible in our life. Making decisions is a complex process. It involves weighing various factors and considering the potential consequences of each option.

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Student Loan Planner

MAY 31, 2023

Multiple efforts are underway to repeal President Biden’s signature student loan forgiveness initiative. But there has been a whirlwind of updates during the last several weeks. Biden’s one-time student debt relief plan, if allowed to proceed, would provide $10,000 in federal loan forgiveness, or up to $20,000 if the borrower received a Pell Grant.

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Patter by Pat Thomson

MAY 22, 2023

You often hear that writing about research is story telling. This is partly right and partly not. Partly not, because a lot of academic writing is better thought of as argument. Argument relies on evidence to make a case for a particular research result. And partly not story, because some research writing is reporting results. Reports rely on a standard order of content.

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College Aid Services

MAY 16, 2023

A friendly reminder to all financial aid professionals, as published in the Dear Colleague letter (DCL ID ANN-23-01), the Department’s Better FAFSA® Better Future Webinar Series commences on June 6th. The series of 10 live webinars are presented by Federal Student Aid staff to help prepare schools on implementation of the FAFSA Simplification Act, the… More » Reminder: Better FAFSA Better Future Webinar Series starts June 6 The post Reminder: Better FAFSA Better Future Webinar Series start

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 16, 2023

Patricia Timmons-Goodson will become dean of the North Carolina Central University (NCCU) School of Law , effective Jul. 1, 2023. Patricia Timmons-Goodson Timmons-Goodson is a retired North Carolina Supreme Court associate justice, the fourth woman and the first African American woman in the role. She retired from the Supreme Court in 2012. She is currently a member of the American Bar Association (ABA) and co-chair of the board of the NC Justice Center.

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Thrive Alliance Group

MAY 16, 2023

Teacher Appreciation Is Needed More Than One Week A Year Teacher Appreciation Week is a wonderful idea. It’s a chance to recognize the contributions of staff members who may be undervalued. But a week of gestures isn’t enough to help you build the confidence and competence of your staff, let alone solve the growing problem of teacher retention. Here’s why & how to make an ongoing effort to value teachers, and ideas that can have a lasting impact.

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Steve Keating

MAY 11, 2023

If you ask most leaders who their most expensive employee is their mind usually goes straight to the person they pay the most. But that’s frequently not true. The most expensive employees in any organization are the ones who are least engaged. They “earn” their paycheck by doing the absolute least work possible. They provide little return for the investment the organization pays.

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Civitas Learning

MAY 11, 2023

Colleges and universities are currently facing challenges to their long-term financial stability, including a shrinking number of high school graduates, increasing alternatives to postsecondary education, and a shifting labor market. Higher education leaders recognize that achieving improved student outcomes requires more than a quick fix. Those who’ve found the most success understand that financial stability requires investing in a student success model that supports students and fiscal

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