January, 2023

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Higher Education Can Connect Diverse Students to Lucrative, Technical Careers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Technical jobs are receiving fewer applications from younger generations. According to Handshake, a network of institutions and employers that helps connect students with early career opportunities, trade careers saw 49% fewer applications in 2022 than 2020. Applications for jobs like automotive technicians or respiratory therapists went from an average of 10 applications each to only five.

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How Active Minds’ Interns Champion Mental Health

Active Minds

Welcome to this semester’s cohort of Active Minds interns ! We are so excited to work with this wonderful group of students in advancing our mission of changing the culture around mental health. Get to know them below: Dee Cox 1. Where are you from? I’m from Cleveland, Ohio, but I moved out to Maryland to go to school. I really love it out here. 2. Where do you go to school and what are you studying?

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Overcoming the Frustration Challenge

Steve Keating

It’s a fact that sometimes people are promoted into leadership positions when they have, shall we say, some shortcomings. At least some perceived shortcomings. How you react under those circumstances says a lot more about you than it says about the person in the leadership position. It is common for a person being “led” by someone they feel is unqualified to hold a leadership position to “resist” that person.

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3 Easy New Year’s Resolutions to Save for Your Child’s College Education

CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

The start of the new year is always filled with our resolutions and plans for another successful year. While you’re thinking about financial goals for the next year, don’t forget to consider your child’s financial future and goals. Too often, parents don’t plan for their. The post 3 Easy New Year’s Resolutions to Save for Your Child’s College Education appeared first on CFAA.

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Can Brain Science Actually Help Make Your Training & Teaching Stick?

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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Modified REPAYE Guide: How Biden’s New IDR Plan Would Reduce Payments for Millions

Student Loan Planner

In one of the most potentially transformative policy changes in the history of higher education policy, President Biden’s Department of Education proposed on January 10, 2023, to completely redo the Revised Pay As You Earn (REPAYE) program to make it more generous for millions of borrowers. Two groups of borrowers will see the biggest benefits: […].

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What I want to say

Student Minds

A poem detailing a young person's silent battle with depression. - Muskaan Admani When someone asks how I am I want to say I really do feel Unloved And Worthless And like A burden This d e p r e s s i o n Is a ravenous parasite Sucking out all the light I have left I have lost my sight. I want to say That my thoughts Are incessantly pushing weight against my shoulders And that is why I shake sometimes I am relentlessly fighting a boxing match That you cannot see But my energy Is now fleeting.

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New Year, Same Me: What 2023 Means for Mental Health

Active Minds

Let the new year begin – hello 2023! When people think of the new year, what first comes to mind, alongside fireworks and parties, is often a fresh start. Many of us are anticipating the excitement of the months ahead, crafting a list of 2023 resolutions in our notes app – including an unprecedented amount of mental health-centered goals.

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Human Speed Bumps 

Steve Keating

Authentic Leadership can be complicated. It’s about people and every person you lead will have the own experiences, challenges and motivations. There is no “one size fits all” leadership approach. That’s what makes it so much harder (and rewarding) than managing. We manage things, stuff like budgets, buildings and equipment. None of those things are capable of adding emotions into the mix.

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How to Boost Students’ Low Self Esteem – CBT Tips

Black Students Mental Health Blog

Many students feel inadequate and unworthy of what they hope to accomplish during their education – unfortunately, these feelings can impact academic achievement and overall well-being. Thankfully, evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) techniques can help boost your self-esteem. To understand how CBT works read my blog about the Different types of Therapy for Mental Health.

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Helping youth who self-harm

Counseling Today

As increasing numbers of youth turn to self-injury, counselors can offer empathy while guiding young clients to better tolerate their emotions and find healthier ways to cope. The post Helping youth who self-harm appeared first on Counseling Today.

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2023: A Fresh Start

Student Minds

Sub-editors, Sarah, Madeleine and Joe, have come together to share how they're taking 2023 as a fresh start. - Student Minds Editorial Team ✨ How do you see 2023 as a fresh start? ✨ ⭐ Sarah (Student): Every new year, like many of us, I think about the goals I’d like to achieve over the next year. This year, I want to prioritise my personal growth by pushing myself a little bit more outside of my comfort zone.

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Choosing an Executive Leadership Coach: What Matters

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the realities of moving up the executive leadership ranks, whether in higher education or other sectors, is that the higher you ascend, the fewer people you have with whom to commensurate or in whom to confide. The truth be told, for numerous reasons, even the most confident executives are often hesitant to turn to persons inside their organization, in ranks above them, to run an idea past them or to seek advice.

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The Impact of Bullying on Mental Health, From a K-8 Expert

Active Minds

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me.” A common phrase often used to imply that the words people say to us don’t, or shouldn’t, have an impact on us. But let’s be honest: especially when it comes to the impact of bullying on mental health, we know that this is far from true. We all have a voice in our head whispering encouragement, doubt, or everything in between.

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Personal Motivation

Steve Keating

I wish every person in a position of leadership understood how important recognition is to their people. They don’t just want recognition, they need it. For many people recognition is the fuel for their engine of productivity. Most people are people pleasers and one of the people they most want to please is their boss. They want a few things in return for pleasing their boss and one of those things is “credit” or recognition for a job well done.

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How to Help Your High School Junior Prep for FAFSA and College Applications

CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

High school juniors need to step up their game when it comes to applying to college. Believe it or not, the FAFSA for your freshman year in college will come online October 1, 2023. Parents and students are completing their FAFSA applications by the end. The post How to Help Your High School Junior Prep for FAFSA and College Applications appeared first on CFAA.

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Does your personality make you more vulnerable to abuse?

Counseling Today

Here are four personality characteristics that make a person more vulnerable to psychological abuse. The post Does your personality make you more vulnerable to abuse? appeared first on Counseling Today.

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The Family Conundrum

Student Minds

Artemis's short story explores the complexity and difficulty of relationships with family, especially over the Christmas and holiday season. - Artemis My family is the Christmas gift you say you love with an abnormally high-pitched voice and a festively plastic smile. We are tightly wrapped, us four, in our own awkward packages, and the doors are closed.

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New Book Focuses on Anti-Asian Racism, Stereotypes, and Catholic Teachings

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As an undergraduate student at the University of Southern California, the Reverend Dr. Joseph Cheah said that he would spend hours at the bookstore, reading about Asian American studies. Dr. Joseph Cheah “The whole notion of Asian American things like that, I've been interested in that for a long time,” Cheah said. “I would just stand there for hours, reading one book after another in Asian American studies.

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Your Guide to Creating Mental Health Communities at HBCUs

Active Minds

Our Active Minds Chapter at Morgan State University was definitely created out of necessity. Prior to the creation of the chapter at Morgan State – one of the nation’s historically Black universities (or HBCUs) – there were no student-led organizations dedicated to addressing mental health on campus. Close to the end of her freshman year, our founder and president, Gabrielle Thompson, went through a challenging time, but knew she wasn’t the only person who was in need of suppor

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Looking Ahead

Steve Keating

First off, Happy New Year. Thank you to everyone for investing a bit of your time each week to read this blog. There are a ton of blogs out there and every time someone reads one of my posts I take it as a compliment. So, here we are in another New Year. Many of you will have made New Year’s resolutions by now. Some of you will have already fell short of making those resolutions happen.

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5 Money Lessons to Teach Your Children for Better Financial Health

CFAA College Financial Aid Advisors

As parents, there’s so many things we need to teach our children. How to manage money is definitely one of those things. Learning how to be fiscally responsible is an important life lesson for every child. The money management skills we teach our children will. The post 5 Money Lessons to Teach Your Children for Better Financial Health appeared first on CFAA.

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Generational trauma: Uncovering and interrupting the cycle

Counseling Today

Counselors who understand the complexities of generational trauma can help clients acknowledge the role it plays in their lives, find healing and ultimately break the cycle. The post Generational trauma: Uncovering and interrupting the cycle appeared first on Counseling Today.

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The Common Bond That Ties

Counselors' Corner

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. A representative from College Board was talking about some boilerplate changes to the SAT—changes in registration procedures, notifications of new products—but she held almost all her enthusiasm for what she clearly saw as a big deal. “As you know, we’ll be recentering the SAT this year” she gushed, even though she was battling a head cold.

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Howard Earns $90 Million DoD Contract, a First for an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

About 30% of African American STEM professionals begin their higher education at a Historically Black College or University, according to the United Negro College Fund, but only around 1% of the Defense Department’s research funding is directed towards HBCUs and other minority serving institutions. This week, the U.S. government took a major step towards remedying these disparities by awarding a five-year $90 million contract to create a university affiliated research center (UARC) to Howard Uni

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Preventing Academic Burnout as a Medical Student

Active Minds

Medical school is a very exciting yet challenging time, with each year revealing different challenges. For example, first-year students often struggle with coping with work demands and adjusting to study habits. Second-year students find themselves stressing about the first part of the national board exam and juggling classes and clinic rotations. Third-year students are faced with the challenge of integrating coursework into real-world clinical settings and applying for externships for the foll

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How to Get What You Want

Steve Keating

There is actually more than one way to get what you want. Some people steal it. Some people luck into it. Some people have it handed to them. But there are “problems” with all of those. You’ve likely heard the saying that crime doesn’t pay. Well sometimes it does pay, but it never pays for very long. People who get what they want by stealing it will eventually lose it, it’s only a question of time.

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6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023

EAB

Blogs 6 trends impacting community college enrollment in 2023 For the past two years, it’s been difficult to focus on anything beyond the immediate consequences of the pandemic. But now as we find ourselves stabilizing, it’s time to pause and take stock of the full landscape facing community colleges. These six trends will have long-term impacts on how community colleges interact with students and getting ahead of them now will position you for success in the future. 6 trends to watch in 2023 1.

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Grade 11 Math Functions And Relations Algebra 2 Final Exam Review (PDF)

Tutor Ocean Corp

You’ve studied hard all semester and you are nearly at the end. Let us help you do your best when it counts the most: the final exam. There’s nothing better than doing a practice math exam to prepare yourself. You need the grade 11 math exam questions and their answers. Doing this exercise with a private tutor will help your brain “chunk” the information.

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The Return of the SAT Essay?

Counselors' Corner

by Patrick O'Connor, Ph.D. It didn’t take long for the worlds of artificial intelligence and college admissions to meet—or, depending on your perspective, collide. Computers have long played an important role in admissions, but the skillset AI brings to the table leaves all kinds of areas where technology can do what humans are currently doing, typically much more quickly.

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HBCUs Utilizing the Common App See an Increase in Applications

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s still early in application season, but North Carolina Central University (NCCU) has already seen a 57% boost in its application numbers from last year. “Compared to then, we were at 9,629 applications last year on January 24,” said Michael Bailey, director of undergraduate admissions at NCCU. “This year we’re at 15,187.” Michael Bailey, director of undergraduate admissions at North Carolina Central University.

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What Are The Responsibilities FAFSA Preparer?

College Aid Consulting Services

Many people that inquire about our Financial Aid advisor services want to know what are the responsibilities of a FAFSA preparer? College Aid Consulting Services are FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) preparer experts who assist individuals and families complete the FAFSA form, which is required for most students to be eligible for financial aid for college.

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The Engine of Success

Steve Keating

I used to do a lot of Goal Setting workshops for older kids with special needs. These were primarily high school age kids that for a variety of reasons were no longer able to go to school in the mainstream public education system. I was asked to do a Goal Setting session for one class and it went well enough that it turned into a long-term thing. While I was never paid for any of this work I was richly rewarded.

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6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023

EAB

Blogs. 6 ways leaders are rethinking their student affairs organizational charts in 2023. Between a pandemic, a national racial reckoning, and increasing challenges to the higher education business model, student affairs leaders have spent the past few years looking for ways to innovate and collaborate more effectively across the cabinet. One avenue leaders have explored to do so is changing their org chart: moving units, combining units, or setting up dual reporting lines.

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What is Happiness?

Student Minds

Virginia discusses different concepts and the individuality of happiness and if there is a one-sentence answer to the question "What is happiness"? - Virginia Just a few minutes ago I was asked what happiness is for me. Normally I am the great question master. always ahead with the next question, the next concept in mind. I sometimes ask hard-hitting questions and the ones that take us down a spiral: the kind where the more you answer, the more questions arise.

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California School Counselor Advocacy Tips

Ed.gov Homeroom

As a school counselor in the Livingston Union School District, I have seen firsthand the vital role that school counseling positions play in supporting academic achievement, social-emotional development, college and career readiness, and mental health and wellness in our students. My Superintendent, Andres Zamora, has been a leader in expanding and supporting school counseling positions, recognizing the Continue Reading The post California School Counselor Advocacy Tips appeared first on ED.gov

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Spaces of Belonging: Schools Look to Design to Help First-Gen Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over half of undergraduate students in the U.S. are the first in their family to attend an institution of higher learning. These first-generation students are likelier than their peers to be from minoritized backgrounds, to face economic challenges, and to juggle jobs and families in addition to school. And they may be less familiar with the “hidden curriculum”—the implicit norms and knowledge that help students navigate college life.