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A forgotten minority: Why we must better serve student parents

University Business

Fortunately, I was soon introduced to the colleges Family Resource Center , which offered not only a dedicated lactation room and refrigerator but also parenting groups where my daughter could come with me and mental health services. Sadly, my success story remains somewhat of an anomaly in a system where nearly four million U.S.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The mission of Excelencia in Education, founded in 2004 by Dr. Deborah A. Among the expanded resources are mental health services, food security initiatives and tailored educational pathways. The path to higher education success has many obstacles and barriers for Latinos across the U.S. Santiago and Sarita E.

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The interplay of occupational subcultures and HE curricula changes how and what student professionals learn

SRHE

My EdD viva in 2021 followed an ethnography over several years (starting in 2013) which explored university paramedic students’ enculturation (the process of being socialised in a certain culture), into a traditional National Health Service (NHS) Ambulance Service Trust. 1 st, edn, Open University Press.