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Dr. Kimberly Andrews Espy Named First Woman President of Wayne State University

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Previously, she was senior vice president for research at the University of Arizona; vice president for research and innovation and dean of the graduate school at the University of Oregon; and faculty at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. In 2022, Espy was a San Antonio Business Journal Women’s Leadership Award winner.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

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Ford, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Jillian Saraney, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga Key Statement: Service-learning projects designed by students can meet community needs while elevating student learning, engagement, and success by integrating high-impact practices (HIPs) and HIP elements. Photo by Robert Lathrop.

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Supporting LGBTQ+ Students as they Work to Achieve Professional and Economic Mobility

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The increase, the Trevor Project suggests , stems from not only from the negative impact of COVID-19, but other risk factors like barriers to mental health care and a wave of new state policies affecting LGBTQ+ rights. During July 2022 alone, ten anti-gay laws went into effect , all of them relating to education.

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We are Not an ‘Issue’: We are Your Students of Color!!

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teachers, school board members, superintendents, principals) and policy makers to see, appreciate, and honor the cultural capital that students of color bring to education, counseling, and mental health services. Counseling & mental health. Career and Technical Education Research, 43 (1), 77-98. internships).

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Dr. Roberta Waite

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Roberta Waite is a tenured professor in doctoral nursing and associate dean of Community-Centered Health & Wellness and Academic Integration at Drexel University. Waite’s scholarship and research centers on behavioral health, structural influencers of health and racial justice.

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Renewed Push Apace to Return Native American Remains

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Over 117,576 Native American individuals are still in museum and federal agency collections, and 94% of those have not been culturally affiliated with any present-day Indian Tribe or Native Hawaiian organization,” notes Joy Beasley in a 2022 statement before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. 31, 2025.

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Student-athletes are at double the risk of suicide than they were two decades ago, study

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Researchers from the University of Washington, the University of Wisconsin at Madison and Oregon Health and Science University found that between July 2002 and June 2022, the rate of NCAA varsity athlete deaths by suicide rose to 15.3%, an alarm-raising jump from 7.6%.