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Embracing Change: Crafting Forward-Thinking Strategic Plans for Colleges in a Dynamic Society

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The study also found that 8% of undergraduates and 5% of graduate students are experiencing homelessness, accounting for more than 1.5 million students. In addition to food and housing insecurity, in 2021, data showed that 51% of students cited transportation as an area where they struggle.

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Black Men’s Mental Health Addressed During Black Men’s Research Institute Symposium

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

He spoke to an audience of AUC students, administrators, and fellow physicians about what society can do differently in mental health. Mental health issues are ubiquitous, and they have a tremendous impact on our community,” Evans said.

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Student housing used to be affordable. Why has it become an ‘asset class’ to enrich the already wealthy? | Leilani Farha

The Guardian Higher Education

It is no longer, with the issue now an emblem of how our society is failing younger generations. In Canadian cities like Toronto and Calgary , where student residences are full and rents are soaring, some have little choice but to sleep in their cars or in homeless shelters.

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Can Cheating on Steroids in Colleges and Universities be Stopped?

Higher Ed Ethics Watch

Everyone cheats in society; this is the expected standard of behavior. Changing Ethical Standard in Society The underlying cause of cheating is a changing ethical standard about right and wrong in society. We live in a no consequences society. We need to have an open and honest dialogue about our cheating society.

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Resilience Inspiring Success

The Scholarly Teacher

Resilience is especially fundamental today due to the changes forced upon individuals and the collective society by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Valerie Sheares Ashby on leadership and succeeding a legend

Confessions of a Community College Dean

She started a homeless shelter for men in the city of Raleigh and ran it for 30 years after she retired from teaching, and she did community college higher education. This is, “How are we going to solve some of the hardest problems facing our society in the world? That tells you a lot about how I lead.

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Morehouse Joins Initiative to Bring College Courses to Disadvantaged High Schoolers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Morehouse College’s Social Problems course typically fills up with freshman and sophomores who want to wrestle with some of the knottiest issues of our time, including interpersonal violence, political corruption, pollution, homelessness, and racial and ethnic conflict. I think they bring that ethos to their work.”