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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Institutional leadership must show a commitment to transformation and creating an environment in which Latino students thrive. These are the institutions that can show you with their data, with their evidence-based practices and with their leadership what they’re doing,” says Santiago. and graduate 19%.

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Worthy of More: Systemic Failures Women of Color Face in Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This double standard manifests in insidious ways: Overrepresentation in Service Work: We are disproportionately asked to lead diversity initiatives, serve on equity committees, and mentor students from historically excluded or systemically marginalized backgrounds. Pauline Clance, the psychologist who coined the term impostor phenomenon.

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Graduating Into The Unknown

Active Minds

Don’t hesitate to reach out to mentors for a virtual coffee chat or connect with individuals in roles that intrigue you for informational interviews and advice via email. Cause & Career offers resources for exploring mental health careers and job opportunities. Your network remains a powerful resource.

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Report: Latinos Essential to Growing STEM Workforce

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One issue highlighted in the report was the shortage of Latino mentors to encourage students to pursue STEM fields. Citing the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the report authors also noted that more than half of Latinos with serious mental illness – among young U.S. Latino community,” the report suggested.

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Overcoming Barriers to Mental Health Care in College Sports

Timely MD

The mental health crisis in higher education was simmering long before the shutdown, isolation, and dramatic changes that occurred during the early days of COVID-19. However, the pandemic fanned the flame and flared up major mental health concerns for college athletes. 2x since 2020. 2x since 2020.

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Fostering Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We hire a lot of students to be peer mentors, peer counselors, peer learning facilitators, which are basically tutors,” he continues. The peer mentors are recruited from UCLA’s undergraduate student body and are usually former participants in AAP. With that kind of structure and those kinds of environments we create.

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How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources

EAB

Podcast How NAU Streamlined Student Access to Mental Health Resources Episode 149. Carl Dindo, the Director of Campus Health Services for Northern Arizona University, to discuss innovative approaches to meeting student mental health needs. May 2, 2023. Welcome to the Office Hours with EAB podcast. music] 0:00:49.0