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Ring The Alarm: A Call to Action for Black Women to Address Wellness in the Academy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The pressures of leadership as a Black woman are daunting enough without adding a lack of full disclosure when taking on positions such as chairs, deans, and executive presidencies. We each have only so much time to do the good work, but work cannot be the totality of our lives. Dr. Nadrea R.

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Biden and Harris Thank Efforts of Congressional Black Caucus

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our democracy is still at stake, don’t kid yourself.” Steven Horsford (D-NV), adding that this year’s 58-member caucus was the largest yet. At the Phoenix Awards during the CBCF Annual Legislative Conference, the duo thanked the groups and said that such efforts are more important than ever in a pivotal upcoming election year. “I

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Diversity, Equity and Student Success Conference Plots Agenda for the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

One of the foundational truths about Hip-Hop culture is that it completely rejects –I mean it absolutely will not allow you to shrink yourself for your dreams.” Hip-Hop requires truth telling, regardless of how bad or ugly that truth is,” Jenkins said.

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Celebrating 50 Years of Hip-Hop

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As long as you keep yourself true to who you are in that experience, you will always have someone outside of that inquisitive enough to buy in. … And if you look at some of the most successful artists that we have in hip-hop, they have been true to their own identity without selling themselves short trying to appease other people."

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Virtual Mental Health Conference Tackles Black College Experience, Grief, and Seeking Help

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If it’s good for your well-being, do more of it, she added. Your walk doesn't have to look like everyone else's, to give yourself the spaciousness to have both your joys and your sorrows that will come up,” O’Reilly said. College is conventionally thought of as a time for leaving the nest, self-exploration, and individual growth.

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A Persevering Spirit

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Diane Finley, Prince George’s Community College; and Dr. Christine McDermott, Delaware State University Words of wisdom/advice for new faculty members: “Don’t stretch yourself out too thin. Learn how to say no as a junior faculty member but say it with poise and some grace. If you didn’t know what was going on, you would not have known.”

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What to do when you are deferred from your first choice college

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First, it will just make a whole lot more work for yourself in trying to get new applications out the door. Second, these schools may be added to your list without full consideration of whether you even want to attend. ” These updates will then be automatically added to your file. Let’s just be honest.