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HBCUs Continue to Meet Their Mission During Tough Times

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is always looking to center the story of Black women in history, particularly to find ways to make those stories resonate with the students of today. “We These stories help us understand women and race in this nation. That’s the goal of coaching: to help students grow into the individuals they came here to be.”

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New Construction Promotes Housing Security at Cal State Long Beach

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Cal State Long Beach recently broke ground on a new five-story, 424-bed residence hall. This project helps us to provide for the demand and puts us in a stronger position to help students with the greatest need for a roof over their head.”

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NASPA Centers the Stories of Diverse Student Affairs Professionals

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

SEATTLE-- Prominent student affairs practitioners of color shared powerful stories of leading in higher education amid major challenges, including the recent COVID pandemic and ongoing attacks to diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. He paid homage to the l ate Dr.

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University of Maryland Reckons with the Past

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“The political environment we’re in now, it’s pushing back against the ideas of democracy—whose stories get to be told, who gets valued in this country—it’s turning us backward,” said Hughes-Watkins. We’re going to push forward and tell the stories that aren’t easy to tell.” It helps them feel seen.”

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Achieving the Dream Convening Highlights Student Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

ATD activates coaches to help institutional leaders formulate action plans for achieving demonstrated outcomes around student success. “Our And honesty is evident in not only what we do when we’re doing career counseling and career services work but also in how we teach our collective stories as well as our histories.”

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Panel Dives into Social Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It was clear that social mobility is increasingly important, but the best ways that colleges can help students achieve it and the best ways that it can be measured and communicated were less certain. A school might be offering access to a great many low-income students, but not graduating many of them. Or vice-versa.

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Unveiling An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An Accidental Triumph: The Improbable History of American Higher Education tells the unique story about what Americans think of higher education. Gittleman cleverly weaves in stories about how, as a child of East European immigrants who did not read or write English, he would come to learn about this phenomenal enterprise.