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Our Advice for Making College Campuses Ready for Diverse Student Populations

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The needs start with physiological essentials such as food, water, shelter, clothing, and sleep. Unfortunately, many campuses fall short in evaluating whether their food options appropriately cater to diverse ethnic and cultural dietary needs. Institutions need to offer holistic services that assist diverse student populations.

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Inside the Mind of Jacob Duran: Newton Hall’s Spiritual RA

PUC

During the 2023-2024 school year, students felt each worship was the same program, leaving them uninvolved with fewer attending throughout the week. Student leaders and staff members wanted to make a change and get them excited to go to dorm worship. How many students do you think go every Tuesday to dorm worship?

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Community Colleges Increase Housing Options

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“As of now, we have over 300 applications for next fall from students that have applied for housing,” says Nicholas Hamel, vice president and dean of student services at Central Maine Community College (CMCC). Its first dormitory opened in 1968, which housed 60 students. This is a growing interest, it seems, every year.”

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California's Community Colleges See the Benefits of Student Housing

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Imperial Valley College (IVC) conducted a student survey seven years ago, they discovered over 200 students experiencing food and housing insecurity. The findings spurred the creation of a basic needs support program on campus, including the IVC Kitchen, which provides emergency food and groceries to hungry students.

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Success Coaching and Online Platform Shown to Improve Retention

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Success coaches aren’t only concerned with academic success; they attempt to help the student as a full person and seek to connect the student with any of the school’s resources that may be helpful, from tutoring to a food pantry. It’s easy for a student who needs help to slip through the cracks.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There, her life in physics began. I thought about how quiet I’d been as an undergrad, and I felt there was something I needed to do and should do at MIT to get more African American and minority students in and to make it more hospitable.” Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union.

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Banishing the winter blues together

Teaching Matters Academic Support

The first event occurred in mid-December, bringing together students, staff, and with resources from the community organisation, ‘Thrive Edinburgh’ for an afternoon filled with activities like crafts, mindfulness, baking, and food. Dec 3, 2024

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