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Many New Jersey Colleges Eligible to Apply for Mental Health Services Funding from State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Several New Jersey public colleges and research universities can apply for mental health services funding from the state, NorthJersey.com reported. The funds will come from the $15 million allocated for mental health services by the state. Phil Murphy This comes amid rising suicide and depression among students.

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Seal of Excelencia 2024

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

San Francisco State University From 2010 to 2022, Latinx-identifying undergraduate enrollment at San Francisco State University (SFSU) increased from 19% to 39%. Among the expanded resources are mental health services, food security initiatives and tailored educational pathways.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Financial crises and their impact on higher education (2008-2010) The 2008 financial crisis had far-reaching effects on higher education, ushering in an era of budget cuts, rising tuition fees, and an intensified focus on financial sustainability.

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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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A review of HE policy? It’s déjà vu all over again

SRHE

If former NUS President Wes Streeting were Education Secretary, no doubt he would be proclaiming that, like the National Health Service, ‘higher education is broken’. The boulder was slipping down the mountain in 2010 as the money and faith in the government ran out and the Browne Report was commissioned.

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President Sasse to face protests and demands on first day

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Critics have questioned how Sasse emerged as the sole candidate from a pool of hundreds who presumably had more higher ed experience than the former senator, who previously served as a college president at the private Midland University in Nebraska from 2010 to 2014.

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College Student Health Coverage Improves but Disparities Persist, GAO Finds

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) report found that overall health coverage rates among undergraduate and graduate students aged 18-64 increased from an estimated 81% in 2010 to 92% in 2022, following the enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA). million students still lacked health coverage in 2022.

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