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How Project 2025’s War on Higher Education Diversity Threatens Our Global Competitiveness

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

If implemented, its recommendations would likely lead to significant cuts in funding for programs designed to support underrepresented students, including recruitment and retention programs for minority students, financial aid for low-income students, and support services for first-generation college students.

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How College Transforms Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

For all their talk about caring for individual student’s well-being, most institutions failed to do much to accommodate differences in students’ interests or talents or to offer personalized or customized support services. Their students are actively engaged in the school’s academic and social life.

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DEIJ Annual Report for 2022-2023

Goucher DEI

Dear Goucher community, With our fall semester now well underway, I thought I’d provide everyone with a brief update on the progress we’ve made this past year on the diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice goals we spelled out for ourselves in our strategic plan , Cultivating Global Changemakers.

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Drive Enrollment Growth with First-Gen Pathways to Success: Changing Higher Education Podcast 167 with Host Dr. Drumm McNaughton and Guest Dr. Marielena DeSanctis

The Change Leader, Inc.

You have to provide the support structures so they can be caught when they start doubting themselves and then help them navigate the policies and processes they have to go through by going out to their homes, getting them enrolled, and convincing families. Marie DeSanctis 16:06 Absolutely. Either way, it’s wrong.

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Helping Your Global Community: Top 5 Cities for Social Services Internships Abroad

AIFS Abroad

Dublin Dublin is an incredible city for social services opportunities thanks to its robust Health Service Executive (HSE), which offers social services including housing and residential care, navigating welfare rights and legal issues, and family support services.