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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

What happens when students design their own service-learning projects involving collaborative and research-based work? This article describes two examples of public health service-learning combined with other HIPs that have resulted in high student engagement and success. Instructors can start small and build capacity over time.

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Navigating Pathways to Success

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Mental health and well-being The increasing focus on mental health and well-being has become a vital concern in higher education, as institutions strive to address the complexities and pressures faced by students and staff. The Future of Higher Education: How Colleges Can Transform Their Financial Strategies. Arizona State University.

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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 Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Due to the program’s success and the employment rates of students who participated in the translation certificate program, in 2013 additional faculty was hired, which allowed for the development of the interpreting certificate and the major in Spanish Translation and Interpreting.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

Postsecondary institutions are uniquely positioned to support a demographic of students who experience the greatest risk of first onset of mental illness as a result of the developmental trajectory of many common mental illnesses (within the 16-24 age window; Jones, 2013). Adult mental health disorders and their age at onset.

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FAQ’s: Spring Semester Questions Regarding Housing Returner Process, Housing Availability, and Off-Campus Housing

The Student Affairs Blog

Since 2005, VCU has built and opened: Brandt Hall (2005), Cary & Belvidere (2008), West Grace South (2012), West Grace North (2013), Grace & Broad 1 and 2 (2015), and Gladding Residence Center (2018). Over the past 10 years, $176 million has been allocated for building updates or system replacements.

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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.