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Beyond the Campus Food Pantry

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As the holidays approach, today’s colleges and universities are increasingly marked by overflowing donation bins containing canned goods collected by every student organization and faculty department to stock the campus food pantry. Over the last decade the food pantry became a higher education trend.

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Eye to the Future

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Our students have a professional advisor on my team who works with them until they earn 24 credits with a minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0 At that time, they transition to either a professional advisor in their school or major or mostly to faculty advisement.” We monitor and follow up with all of those faculty alerts.”

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Integrating Arts as a Healing Force

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

By following the students’ lead, Bennett strives to integrate healing-centered leadership approaches, pleasure activism, and her love for the arts into the center’s programming. Today, the Women’s Center is part of the brand-new Cultural & Equity Center, which was completed during the pandemic.

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Building Community through Faculty, Staff, and Student Mixers

The Student Affairs Blog

The Faculty, Staff & Student Mixers, hosted by The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) are designed to bring together members of VCU’s diverse communities in a welcoming and celebratory environment.

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Housing scholarship aids underrepresented students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” When students travel to and from campus for classes, they worry about commute times, rush hour, weather conditions, Alba adds. Many students take public transportation as well, which can be unreliable. “The spirit of the scholarship is to enrich the student experience,” Alba says.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. Many contingent faculty are shocked to realize that college teaching is a working-class job.

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Sense of Belonging/Acceptance Racially minoritized students who attend PWIs often report feelings of isolation, marginalization, lack of support, and exclusion from faculty and peers. For college students, the most likely SDOH were food insecurity, transportation, safety, social support, and housing (Nazmi et al.,