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Many New Jersey Colleges Eligible to Apply for Mental Health Services Funding from State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

State agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke of a mental health emergency among youth and schoolchildren in 2020, citing steadily rising rates of suicide from 2010-2020. “I And an additional $21,739 is available to each school in grants for professional development. .

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Page Appointed President of Stillman College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Page has been lauded for her work, having been given the Council of Independent Colleges Chief Academic Officer Award in 2020 and recognized as one of Diverse’s 25 leading women in higher education in 2017. Over her career, Page has secured about $40 million in funding to support curriculum redesign and faculty professional development.

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New Technology and Attitudes Emerge from the Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

At the start of 2020, there was robust availability of online higher education, but no one anticipated that a worldwide pandemic called COVID-19 would soon usher in a new world of distance learning. “The Making the shift and continued development Luoma was on Yale University’s faculty initiatives team when the COVID-19 pandemic hit in 2020.

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Student Affairs Professionals Gather to Discuss Future of the Profession

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This has translated as mentoring in my professional life. Mentoring remains one of the most viable and critical tools for professional development.” During Tuesday’s panel discussion, Terrell encouraged student affairs professionals to go on and earn a master’s and doctoral degree and then connect the research to the practice.

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College Sports: A Work in Progress

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Action taken While there has been steady advancement over the past 40 years, the murder of George Floyd in 2020 has proven to be a seminal moment that has propelled student-athletes, coaches, and administrators to face issues of race and racism in college sports.

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Create a Trauma-Sensitive Learning Environment Using Container-Setting

The Scholarly Teacher

We have also used container-setting in nontraditional learning settings, such as professional development, clinical preceptorship, workplace mentorship, and client coaching. How can you tweak these strategies to improve the quality of your container-setting in your teaching environment? References Bowen, B. link] Cheon, S.

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Higher Ed, Performative DEI, Corporate America, and the “I Told You So!”

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In the summer of 2020 during the time of painted sidewalks, murals, along with street and building renamings, some of the easily convinced proclaimed the period of what seemed to be a racial reckoning as a start. With the recent passing of Senate Bill 17 a.k.a. SB 17 in Texas, all of the “starting” is vanishing in rapid succession.

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