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$2.59M Grant Supports Nurse Training to Support Underserved Patients

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

million grant through the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce Program of the Health Resources and Services Administration. “We Students develop competency in leading therapeutic groups, implementing crisis and case management, prescribing psychotropic medications, and conducting psychotherapy.

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Melvin C. Terrell Scholars Dive into Research

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

But this spring, Evans and Cerano, along with three other first-year graduate students in higher education and student affairs from underrepresented backgrounds, presented preliminary research findings at the annual conference organized by NASPA, the leading national organization of student affairs professionals, in Boston.

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NASPA Survey Reveals Further Declines in Campus Mental Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The COVID-19 pandemic only exacerbated the problem, with over 60% of college students meeting the criteria for at least one mental health issue in the 2020-21 school year. The report is based on survey responses from student affairs leaders at over 100 institutions, representing more than 150,000 students. “By

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UP cuts Title IX position amidst budget shortfall - Brie Haro, University of Portland Beacon

Ray Schroeder

The administration has eliminated the Title IX coordinator position in an effort to deal with the University’s $13.4 Tammy Herdener, associate vice president for student development, will be acting as the interim Title IX coordinator while the program undergoes restructuring. million budget deficit.

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Report: Caring Campus Program Tied to Increased Connection for Students and Faculty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“People, in different ways, became less connected, and there were fewer students coming back to college and so on. So I think a lot of institutional leaders have been concerned about making sure students develop that sense of connection. And I think that sense of disconnect due to the pandemic didn't just happen for students.

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It’s official: Joe Paul is named president of the University of Southern Mississippi

University Business

.” Paul, a Southern Miss alumnus, retired in 2015 after he served as an administrator in student affairs for the university for more than 40 years. in the administration of higher education from the University of Alabama and was named the Most Outstanding Doctoral Student in the field in 1985.

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Librarians' "new normal" includes pain points

Confessions of a Community College Dean

But Ioana Hulbert, Ithaka S+R researcher and survey author, confided to a packed ballroom that she had been anxious during the survey’s administration in the fall of 2022—mostly because of question 17. “Maybe that’s too high of a bar to say that you have an explicit, documented strategy somewhere.”

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