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Here are 3 ways the international student landscape is changing

University Business

While domestic student enrollment is poised for a small comeback of its own, international student enrollment is playing a bigger role in institutions’ revenue-generating playbook. “There is always a pathway for them to get a permanent residence, and that makes us stronger as a country and as a society,” he says.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Marginalized sociodemographic groups navigate more barriers and challenges (stressors) within our society, and postsecondary education institutions. transgender care teams, sexual violence and trauma-informed care expertise, competency in offering mental health supports for LGBQ students). Building Community and Visibility.

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Ethics and Title IX

Higher Ed Connects: Ethics

How colleges and universities—and even grade schools —handle reports of gendered harassment on their campuses (including but not limited to reports of sexual misconduct, domestic violence, stalking, sexual assault, and rape) remains a persistent topic. . The Department of Education recently handed down a $4.5

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The case for teaching about gender violence (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Toews’s imaginative reconstruction, inspired by true events, reminds us of the importance of talking in the aftermath of violence, what Amanda Hess calls the “intellectual life of the survivor.” They have been told by their bishop and elders that they have imagined this violence, or that Satan is to blame.

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Scholar Fuses Advocacy and Scholarship to Move Equity Needle Forward

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“What we’re trying to do is create a world that is moving toward justice, perhaps a little faster than the arch of history that bends toward justice, and in so doing education is such a major tool,” says Jakobsen, whose courses include theorizing activism; knowledge, practice and power; and religion, gender and violence. “I Dr. Janet R.

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Top 12 Young Adult Books for High School Women's Studies Units

Experiential Learning Depot

This is because of trafficking, gendercide, domestic violence, etc. In this patriarchal society, women are forced into a variety of roles. About ten years ago I picked up a book called "Half the Sky". Within the first chapter I read this quote: "More than 100 million women are missing." at any given time.

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A People's History of Higher Education in the US?

Higher Education Inquirer

At the front end of the higher ed pipeline, the US is not producing enough domestic students with the resources or skills to succeed in college and beyond. Drug and alcohol abuse, sexual assault and other forms of violence and brutality are long-standing parts of the US higher ed landscape that have not been fully dealt with.