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Supporting LGBTQ+ Students as they Work to Achieve Professional and Economic Mobility

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2007, it became the first school in Kentucky to add gender identity to its non-discrimination policy. Double Down on Mental Health Services. For traditional brick-and-mortar schools, those services could include dedicated on-campus staff that specialize in the LGBTQ+ community.

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Anchors Away: Building Community, Mindfulness, Equity, and Reflection

The Scholarly Teacher

2007), was incorporated to emphasize the importance of prioritizing self-care. For example, the health services medical director led the participants through breathing exercises. How (Faculty Development): The facilitators led several of the mindfulness moments including waving ribbons, blowing bubbles, and storytelling.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By example, initially funded in 2007 by a grant from the U.S. Among the expanded resources are mental health services, food security initiatives and tailored educational pathways. Enrollment has risen by 2% from fall 2023 to fall 2024, following a 1% increase the previous year.

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Discovering Issues with IPEDS Completions Data

Robert Kelchen

To provide an example, the Mental and Social Health Services and Allied Professions master’s program at Rollins College did not report data for 2015 after reporting 25 graduates in 2013 and 24 graduates in 2014. We found consistent evidence from websites that programs continued to exist during their hiatus in IPEDS data.

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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.

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Black Youth Mental Health: Understanding and Being Culturally Responsive to Promote Homeplace and Black Joy

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Further, rates of death by suicide for Black youth have risen since 2007 at a rate that is faster than any other racial/ethnic group. These discussions can also normalize and provide referrals for mental health service providers in schools and the community that have already been vetted as culturally responsive practitioners.

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Higher Education Inquirer - Untitled Article

Higher Education Inquirer

Healthy Minds Study This research database houses data collected as part of the Healthy Minds Study, an annual survey that asks college students about their mental health and their school environment, including campus safety, peer support and mental health services.