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An Inclusive Approach to Increasing Access to Student Mental Health Services

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Its a place where students can receive a variety of mental health and non-academic resources, including online mental health counseling, resource coaching, food resources, and collegiate recovery programming. This space also includes our food pantry, where students with food insecurity can stop by to secure essentials.

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Formerly Incarcerated Students Are Humans First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Yet the humanity of formerly incarcerated Dr. Sara Goldrick-Rab students is too often marginalized, even overlooked, in campus programs addressing issues like food and housing insecurity. That effort and others like it are essential services for basic needs in college.

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Here are the 5 academic programs emerging in 2025

University Business

AI in healthcare The ramification of artificial intelligence is impossible to overstate on universities’ academic programs; three out of five of GrayDI’s emerging programs list 2024 centered on it. Its implementation in healthcare, however, may be the most significant. Healthcare expenditures in the U.S. reached $4.9

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Providing Students a Holistic and Supportive Experience

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“[In the Central Valley], we exist in a healthcare desert, so we are in critical need of expanding our healthcare and behavioral healthcare training opportunities,” Ogle says. “In Together, we are ensuring an educated, well trained workforce dedicated to our mutual success.”

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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

A warm and safe place to live with hot food on the table is non-negotiable. Holiday Food Drive Have your students organize a food drive to collect non-perishable items and deliver them to local food banks or shelters to support families in need. No, winter sports gear itself is not a necessity like food and shelter.

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TICAS Policy Agenda Tackles the Flaws in the Higher Ed System

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“It’s been really cool to see how TICAS acknowledges how so many things are related — affordability, basic needs, addressing food insecurity and not just loans,” said Fernandez. Can students get childcare, or food? Can they have healthcare? Because you can’t have student success without those things.”

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Looking Back to See Forward - Dr. Nic John Ramos

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I helped all sorts of hospital workers – from resident physicians to nurses to respiratory therapists to phlebotomists to food service and environmental service workers (janitors and housekeepers) – form their unions for better pay, working conditions, and benefits.”