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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students.

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3 Things I Wish Iā€™d Known About Living Away from Home

Hope College Network

Before coming to Hope, I knew that living on campus would be a huge part of my college experience but I didn’t know what this entailed. My understanding of living away from home came from Gilmore Girls. Moving away from home can definitely be hard!

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Creating Safe Spaces for Black Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us.ā€™ā€ For Dr. Lauren Christine Mims, few challenges are more important in public education than creating spaces for Black students to flourish and thrive. Much of the language that Mims uses in her research is about liberation for Black students.

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Navigating the journey of living away from home

Hope College Network

Especially as a first-year student, it can feel overwhelming and cause you to miss living at home. However, it’s helpful to know that you are not alone, and that there are ways to help ease the anxious feelings of living away from home. At Hope College, community exists.

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A Race Scholar

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Forty-one years had passed since Howard graduated from the school, but his formative years as a student there radically transformed his life and set him on the path to becoming the world class scholar that he is today. Those shifting demographics are broadly reflected in todayā€™s student population. It was like a lifetime away.ā€

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Native American Studies Programs Struggle to Recover from COVID-19 Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Brady DeSanti Recent data from the U.S. declined nearly a year from 2020 to 2021, non-Hispanic American Indian-Alaskan Native people (AIAN) experienced the biggest drop in life expectancy, declining 6.6 years from 2019 to 2021. There are lots of families on the reservations that still do not have running water in their homes.

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MEGA Symposium Tackles Trauma and Healing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Montclair State University The energetic, clear sounds of bomba drums called the room to attention as window screens lowered to shield the audience from the bright blue sky and Manhattan skyline. I came for the opportunity,ā€ said Kash Shahzaman, a 17-year-old from Ewing High School in Ewing, NJ, near Trenton. ā€œI