Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 4, 2025

Ed Smith-Lewis Through digital and innovative platforms, UNCF is building a connected ecosystem where institutions can learn from one another, scale what works, and shape a stronger, more equitable future for their students, says Ed Smith-Lewis, senior vice president of strategic partnerships and institutional programs at UNCF.

Guided pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 13, 2025

For example, Black students in P-12 schools tend to be suspended at higher rates than their racial peers and the belief is that this discipline will teach Black students a lesson to behave in class. This happens by first acknowledging structural issues and then reducing negative impacts on students (Hill et al.,

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

But like other free tuition initiatives for Native American students, it’s not quite as simple as it sounds. One of the concerns I have is many college-bound students do not have the tools or the know how of securing adequate funding before they go to college,” says Dr. Karen R. The basics are very appealing. Dr. Gresham D.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

They serve more economically disenfranchised students than most U.S. institutions, and they do so successfully, facilitating the upward mobility of the majority of their students. HBCUs have a 34% mobility rate of moving their students from the bottom 40% in household income into the top 60%.

Mathematics

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro. His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at?

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 5, 2025

Ambitious, and often anxious, students enter collegiate Alicia P. At any age, collegiate students feel the intensity between their desires for differentiation and longing for belonging and a clear sense of purpose. Peoples environments aspiring to find answers, solve problems and create systems to support themselves and others.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 15, 2025

Ed Smith-Lewis, senior vice president for strategic partnerships at the United Negro College Fund facilitates a session at the H.E.L.F Attendees were encouraged to talk through case studies and were guided by facilitators: Ed Smith-Lewis, senior vice president for Strategic Partnerships at the United Negro College Fund; Dr. M.C.

Higher education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 30, 2025

For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets. He also facilitates a leadership retreat for Chicanx/Latinx Student Success Center, also known as Centro. His 2022 essay, Wheres the Gig at?

Teaching

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JANUARY 14, 2025

And how do they inform the ways I navigate campus culture and focus on student success? I came to America as an International student and became a legal immigrant. We endeavor to develop practices and protocols that reaffirm our Latinx students sense of belonging, and we aspire to go beyond the Black/white racial dichotomy.

Leadership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 9, 2025

They needed long-term, data-driven, institutionally customized strategies to build financial resilience, promote academic innovation, and drive student success models that work for their institutions. DIVERSE : In addition to policymakers, faculty, and administrators, students play a major role in UNITE.

Collaboration

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 11, 2025

DeQuan Smith-Murry As the Morehouse School of Medicine seeks to expand its reach by establishing regional campuses throughout the nation, providing effective and efficient student services will be paramount to its success. That job falls to Dr. DeQuan Smith-Murry, assistant dean of student affairs at Morehouse’s medical school.

Student wellbeing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 5, 2025

Her area of research is in Whiteness Studies and Critical Discourse Analysis, tracing how whiteness is reproduced in everyday narratives.She is a two-time winner of the Students Choice Award for Educator of the Year at the University of Washingtons School of Social Work. In addition, she holds two Honorary Doctorates.

University

Knowledge Avatars College

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

This event, aimed at empowering the next generation of leaders, attracted over 150 high school students for a day dedicated to exploration, empowerment, and enrichment. The summit featured a standout event sponsored by Knowledge Avatars, led by the distinguished facilitator Dalond Bidonne.

Facilitation

Active Minds

JANUARY 29, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

As Black educators, we are constantly mindful of the quality of lived experiences in the academy, mainly predominantly white Institutions (PWIs) for minoritized students. The paper cites a 2021 study that found that graduation rates for Black students at HBCUs are 32% compared to 44% for Black students at other institutions.

Mental health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

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. This oversight results in significant gaps in equipping students for clinical practice related to race. immigration policy.

Counseling

Civitas Learning

APRIL 17, 2025

Start by asking these three essential questions to ensure your investment drives real results: How will this software help more students succeed? Begin by asking: How can this tool help us support more students? What features will help us be more proactive, scale support, and still create a student-centered environment?

Advising

Active Minds

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The Emerging Scholar Fellowship , generously supported by the Scattergood Foundation for Behavioral Health and Macys , is a unique opportunity for students who identify as Black, Indigenous, and/or Persons of Color (BIPOC) to work on their own groundbreaking mental health-related independent research.

Mental health

Knack

JUNE 12, 2025

For many students, becoming a peer tutor, facilitator, or SI leader is the first time they see themselves not just as recipients of education, but as contributors to their campus communities. And according to new research, that kind of meaning might be exactly what students need most. That sense of purpose isn’t incidental.

Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 4, 2025

Racial classifications can be used to promote a sense of belonging that is so important for the well-being and achievement of Black and other minoritized students. The Education Departments guidance document says that all segregation is illegal and that schools cannot separate students by race even if they treat all students equal.

Mental health

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

AUGUST 13, 2025

A: It’s a six-to-10-week time frame when many students are going to parties, gatherings, and other social events to celebrate their return to campus. New students can be especially vulnerable during this period, due to their unfamiliarity with the campus, new social experiences, and the resources available to survivors.

Facilitation

College Planners of America

MAY 7, 2025

A Parent PLUS Loan (PPL) is a Federal student loan program that helps parents finance their dependent children’s college education, making it a vital resource for families facing rising college costs. However, the credit check for a PPL is less stringent than those for private student loans.

Financial aid

COE

MAY 2, 2025

Hamm President Trumps newly released 2026 budget proposes the complete elimination of the Federal TRIO Programs, which have helped millions of low-income, first-generation students – including veterans, adult learners, and students with disabilities – succeed in higher education for over 60 years. WASHINGTON, D.C.

Education

College Aid Services

JUNE 13, 2025

These enhancements aim to support processing for various federal student aid programs, including the Federal Pell Grant, Iraq and Afghanistan Service Grant, TEACH Grant, Direct Loan, and Campus-Based programs. Department of Education will implement additional updates to the COD System for the 2025–26 award year.

Facilitation

School & Student Services by Community Brands

JUNE 17, 2025

For private and independent K–12 schools, where student records, family financial data, and tax documents converge on digital platforms, IT Directors are increasingly the guardians of both compliance and confidence. The SSS platform doesn’t just meet compliance—it facilitates it.

Access

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

MARCH 27, 2025

Event: World Health Day at Peabody Date: Monday April 7, 2025 Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm Location: Peabody Plaza, Peabody campus Registration: [link] Details: The fair is an opportunity for our students to engage and receive resources on JHU’s eight dimensions of well-being. Lunch is provided. Snacks will be provided.

International student

School Counselor Blog

JANUARY 22, 2025

This issue highlights the importance of school counselor and student mental health. In Tools for Self-Care , I provide practical ways to promote, model, and encourage self-care to students, educators, and graduate students! Below are links to initiatives I've facilitated that are mentioned in the article.

Facilitation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MAY 13, 2025

Mike Hoa Nguyen As a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut Hartford, Dr. Qazi Arka Rahman leads a Critical Refugee Studies course that encourages students to see refugees as more than simply victims, objects of rescue, problems, and crises. He published his fi ndings in a 2024 study for The Review of Higher Education.

Tutoring

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 9, 2024

As the year winds down, undergraduate and graduate students, faculty, staff and administration are left to wonder what comes next in higher education. Student debt issues loom, and problems due to the rollout of the 2024-25 FAFSA linger. In tandem, many non-profit and for-profit partners are doing the same thing.

Mental health

Catherine Cronin

JANUARY 16, 2025

And what does it mean for individual lives: teachers, students, and especially those whose humanity continues to be the subject of debate? We created and facilitated an inclusive workshop space, inviting participants to personally reflect on these ideas and questions, and to create an artefact to express their ideas.

Humanities

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MARCH 3, 2025

in the Ballroom East in Plaster Student Union. The recipients of this award have demonstrated excellent advising to Missouri State students. Advisors are nominated by students, faculty, and staff. Rhonda Stanton, Azaria Hogans, and Karmen Brewer will be recognized as the recipients of the 2025 Curtis P.

Advising

John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

APRIL 8, 2025

This April, as a part of Sexual Assault Awareness Month , Health Promotion and Well-Being has invited EndTAB founder Adam Dodge to a series of workshops for students focused on emerging topics around digital safety and privacy and addressing technology-facilitated abuse. About EndTAB Gender-based violence has gone digital.

Facilitation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 23, 2025

From dorms and lecture halls to labs and student clubs, these institutions function as scaled-up enrichment ecosystems for young adult human minds—and their payoff, both neural and societal, is profound. Residential living is common, boosting student engagement and peer interaction. return on investment for students.

University

Close the Gap Foundation

JUNE 25, 2025

From Fellow to Leader Yuki, a high school student from Irvine, California, joined Close the Gap as a fellow in 2024. Whether it’s in student council, where she serves as treasurer, or through initiatives like Intercultural Week at her school, which she helped implement to promote cultural understanding.

Mentoring

COE

JUNE 3, 2025

The Trump Administrations claim that access is no longer an obstacle for low-income students is flatly contradicted by data and by the lived experience of more than 6 million TRIO alumni. Talent Search students are 33% more likely to enroll in college than those from the bottom income quartile.

First generation

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 24, 2025

The Trump Administration has issued warnings to colleges and universities nationwide that continuing race-based decision-making could jeopardize federal fundinga critical resource many institutions depend on for Pell Grants and federal student loan programs. The policy reversal has generated divided responses along political lines.

Community college

Missouri State Academic Advising and Transfer Cent

MAY 1, 2025

Missouri State News Refer a Future Bear Know a high school or transfer student who would thrive at Missouri State? This forum is important to understand changes that will impact how we advise students. Whether its a family member, a friend, or someone you mentor, you can help them become a Bear!

Advising