John Hopkins University Student Well-Being Blog

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Try to maintain a regular sleep schedule, even during study breaks. Here are some tips: Schedule short exercise breaks, even if it is just a quick walk or a few stretches. This can be 50 minutes three times per week, 30 minutes five times per week, or any combination that fits your schedule. Remember, a little goes a long way!

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Trump's executive orders targeting diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs, delivering a significant blow to the administrations efforts to curtail such initiatives in federal contracting and higher education. A federal judge has issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against President Donald J.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2025

During last Thursday's hearing before the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP), McMahon addressed concerns about the administration's stance on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in educational institutions. When pressed by Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.)

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 24, 2025

These conflicts have centered on traditional accreditors' standards related to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, as well as their requirements for safeguards designed to limit external political influence in public higher education governance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Many of the students are working adults with children who may also be caring for elderly parents while trying to maintain jobs with rigorous work schedules. Also, creating an academic schedule that is amenable to the working adult population is necessary. The strategies should also be analyzed and seek student feedback.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Burt “Aspiring to a career in engineering can be daunting for Black males and a less traveled road they are expected to pave themselves,” said Burt, a UW-Maidson professor of education and director of the Wisconsin Equity and Inclusion Laboratory (Wei LAB). Burt is also a 2019 Diverse Emerging Scholar. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 3, 2024

The National Association of Diversity Officers in Higher Education (NADOHE) condemned the University of Florida's elimination of its diversity, equity, and inclusion staff. The association is scheduled to meet in Seattle for its annual meeting later this month and the Florida decision will inevitably be at the top of the agenda.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 26, 2024

As an educator and university president, I have seen firsthand the ADA’s transformative impact on our higher education systems — and how far we still must go before higher education is truly accessible and inclusive of learners from all backgrounds. Lisa Marsh Ryerson The number of students with disabilities at U.S. It’s our starting point.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

With this vote, the Board of Trustees has taken an important step to advance diversity, equity and inclusion at CUNY,” said CUNY Board of Trustees Chairperson William C. I’m proud to see CUNY advance our commitment to inclusivity.” Matos Rodríguez made the announcement following a recent vote by the CUNY Board of Trustees. Thompson Jr.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Rochester was looking to hire faculty whose work focused on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. Because several minoritized professors are being hired at once, they are less likely to be tokenized and burdened with extra diversity, equity, and inclusion work. Louis Filmmakers Showcase and is scheduled to screen at the St.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 26, 2024

Colleges need to review academic schedules for barriers with retention. Are schedules designed with student retention in mind? This shift in focus requires a commitment to first generation college students, equity, and inclusion.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

MARCH 6, 2023

The school is “committed to preparing diverse leaders” and pledges “accountability and transparency, as well as consistent engagement to ensure that we create and maintain an inclusive environment.” It’s an important goal in a profession that serves people of all backgrounds but whose practitioners are over 80% white.

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Active Minds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Whether you’re a student looking for ways to work self-care into your busy schedule or someone who feels weighed down by the internet’s unrealistic expectations of what self-care should look like , remember this: self-care is an act of self-love. It is unique to you, serves your needs at that moment, and can change daily.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 30, 2023

Dr. Amy Wilson, the NCAA’s managing director of inclusion, said that as the NCAA began laying out its Title IX celebrations, there was no doubt that this should be the culmination. All the games leading up to the title game took place according to the normal schedule, which meant the teams had a delay between their semi-final and final games.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 2, 2024

During the spring semester of 2023, he maintained a rigorous study schedule, dedicating 2 to 3 hours each night to MCAT preparation. It reminds us that when we invest in pathways that support underrepresented students in medicine, we create a more inclusive healthcare system that ultimately benefits everyone.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 5, 2024

The schedule quickly proved taxing, overpacked with guest lectures and not inclusive of enough rest or rapport-building time. Throughout the month, the program staff altered the schedule in response to the fellows’ requests for more cohort-only time. The dorms on the SFSU campus weren’t fully accessible.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

There is also training on diversity, equity, and inclusion, featuring modules on implicit bias, intersectionality, and micro and mac ro- aggressions. Schedules are designed to fit working students’ needs, with options for evening, hybrid, and online, synchronous and a synchronous.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Rolanda Johnson, associate dean for equity, diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing. It’s a lot of mental [acrobatics] that go on, I’ll tell you that,” says Mamie Williams, senior director for nurse diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC).

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Wisconsin Republicans have demonstrated clear opposition against the Universities of Wisconsin’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts. The Board of Regents was scheduled to meet again today in closed session to “deliberate and negotiate funding proposals and matters,” ABC News reported.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 20, 2024

Now, Mendoza works with approximately 200 undergraduate students who are part of a leadership program, developing content such as educational seminars and programming for them as well as assisting them in scheduling and budgeting for events and activities.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 18, 2023

Williams, associate dean for inclusive excellence in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. As they explored things such as changing school start times and bus schedules, he saw the equity issues that could arise. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 24, 2024

I also worked as a study consultant, where I was able to empower some of my peers by teaching them effective study strategies and time management scheduling.” This includes having a holistic view and seeing mental health in relation to social issues, such as gun violence and reproductive rights as well as diversity, equity, and inclusion. “We

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

APRIL 22, 2024

The “inclusive” approach to course counseling and scheduling throughout the student’s time at an institution reveals its limitations and complications in the final hour.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The report’s recommendations revolve around themes of flexibility, accommodation, inclusivity, proactiveness, and continuous support. Online courses and programs were both praised by comebackers and suggested by the report’s authors for the flexibility in scheduling that they provide.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JULY 5, 2023

Williams, associate dean for inclusive excellence in the College of Engineering at Georgia Tech. As they explored things such as changing school start times and bus schedules, he saw the equity issues that could arise. Banerjee excels at both teaching and research, according to Dr. Damon P.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Several times, Tajrian asked to meet with Alexander, and despite his busy schedule he made time for her. Alexander says one of the most pressing issues in higher education is diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). It’s all about inclusion, inclusion of everyone, not just those folks who are being singled out or targeted.”

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JUNE 27, 2023

In 2015, Lieberman was named President of the Year by the Association of College Unions International for supporting an inclusive and engaged campus community. Lieberman aimed to raise $125 million and achieved $128 million a year ahead of schedule. Lieberman advocates having pride in community. “Be

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

For example, students who work full-time can benefit from flexible course schedules that include evening and weekend options. I nstitutions can create more inclusive and supportive systems that benefit all students, regardless of their background or circumstance.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Earning the Seal will only deepen our future work in building a richly diverse, equitable, and inclusive campus. It affirms that our commitment to institutional change initiatives and educational and inclusive excellence is creating the conditions necessary for accelerating Latinx student success and college completion.”

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Timely MD

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Inclusive care delivery can help break down these barriers and provide students with the resources they need to thrive. There has never been a greater need for inclusive care delivery that embraces diverse backgrounds, intersecting identities and lived experiences, and the time to course-correct is now.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Opportunity to make a difference For the 49-year-old public scholar who has spent much of his career exploring issues related to diversity, equity, and inclusion and anti-racism leadership across the K-12 and higher education landscape, coming to WMU was an opportunity to help propel the 120-year institution forward.

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Civitas Learning

APRIL 4, 2024

The Challenge: Facing declining retention and cumbersome scheduling, JAX State needed to address barriers to enrollment. The Outcomes: By simplifying the scheduling and registration experience, JAX State is achieving better student outcomes and improving interactions between students and staff.

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IHEP Institute for Higher Education Policy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The spring and summer are when institutional leaders are doing project plans and budgets for the following academic year, so if opportunities are not already scheduled into the institutional plan, it makes it complicated to get the right people and resources in place to maximize the opportunity.” 2. What are our gaps?

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Civitas Learning

JUNE 1, 2023

Schedule a conversation to learn how partnering with Civitas Learning can help your team reach its student success goals. Before implementing a unified student success platform, it was difficult to see the full picture of a student’s interactions across campus. LEARN MORE Ready to proactively support your students?

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

OCTOBER 27, 2022

I wanted to be a dean at a college or school of education that mattered.” Michigan State University stuck out right from the start. “As As I looked at the opportunity from an objective standpoint, it, to me, seemed to rise to the top of opportunities because it was a highly regarded college of education,” says Jackson.

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Symplicity

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

With this concern, as Higher Education Today wrote in 2020 means that “shaping the culture of higher education institutions is one of the most important steps to achieving the goal of disability-diversity and inclusion.”

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Symplicity

AUGUST 16, 2023

They must find a way to meet specific job qualifications, navigate whether to disclose their disability, overcoming initial biases of someone’s capabilities, along with barriers to access from transportation, work equipment, flexible work schedules, interviewing, and much more.

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