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They Don’t Really Care About Us? Ensuring a Better Connection Between Research, Policy, and Practice to Ensure Success for Black Men in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Aside from writing about the plight of Black men in higher education, in our scholarship, we have employed an anti-deficit approach to highlight critical factors that help to facilitate the access, retention, and persistence of Black men in college. This stifles Black student success and contributes to low graduation rates from high schools.

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An Inclusive Approach to Increasing Access to Student Mental Health Services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An Inclusive Approach As educators passionate about and dedicated to the success of our students, we have an obligation to step in and play a role in alleviating this issue. For students with limited means to pay for counseling or psychiatry, it is critical we do all we can to facilitate access to the right care at the right time.

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UNCF's Career Pathways Initiative and HBCUv Platform are Driving Transformational Change Through Innovation and Alliances

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The success was due in part to the interinstitutional collaboration fostered by CPI. We had an overwhelming majority of our students who were gainfully employed when they walked across the stage because they had anywhere from two to three years of experience with internships, says Richardson in an interview with Diverse.

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Where is the Love? Compassionate Pedagogy is Needed Now More Than Ever Before

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In this practice, educators are committed to the success of historically marginalized student subgroups by countering oppressive pedagogies. To implement a sense of compassion, educators must be committed to a flexible process facilitated through positive communication and transparency.

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Promises, Promises: Agency, Self-Actualization, the Higher Ed Social Contract

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial allocations must reflect an understanding of the institutional effectiveness goals, what is required to attain them, and the real value for target student success outcomes. Higher education leadership must emphasize its key role in a vision of a society that centers, involves and supports people in the community.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The tutoring and academic counseling were crucial to her success. We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. Then, you see the successes.” Alexander is studying the success and impact of various programs within AAP.

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New Jersey's Free Teletherapy Program Delivers 78,000 Mental Health Sessions to College Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

New Jersey is rethinking student mental health — not as an add-on, but as a cornerstone of student success and our statewide college completion strategy," said Dr. Brian K. Bridges, New Jersey's secretary of higher education. With typical therapy copays estimated at $30 per session, New Jersey students have collectively saved $2.2