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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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Community College Teams Up with For-Profit for Medical Assistant Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Medical assistants are critical to the operation of doctor’s offices, hospitals, and clinics. And we need more of them than ever: the Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment of medical assistants will grow much faster than the average occupation over the next decade. Nine of them were female, and nine were over 25.

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The Dark Legacy of Elite University Medical Centers

Higher Education Inquirer

(Image: Mass General is Harvard University Medical School's teaching hospital.) For decades, Americas elite university medical centers have been the epitome of healthcare research and innovation, providing world-class treatment, education, and cutting-edge medical advancements.

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Chapman University Receives $1 Million to Reinforce Financial Safety Net for Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The money will support the Women of Chapman Student Hardship Assistant Fund, which helps students with immediate and unexpected hardships, such as costs related to housing, food, transportation, technology, medical bills, and getting home during a family crisis. More than 80% of Chapman’s students receive financial aid.

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A Commitment to Community Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They exist as holistic caregivers, responding to a multitude of different problems that households and neighborhoods face, such as unemployment, insurance, language barriers, food scarcity, and mental health. Do you give them the medical information and then walk away? It’s got all kinds of ingredients,” says Carbajal.

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Classes Move Online at Bronx Community College Due to Persistent Heating Problems

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Employees complained of fingertips turning blue, and those with medical conditions like anemia and neuropathy reported intense discomfort. Loaner laptops are available for students and the campus food pantry will remain open for holiday food distribution, according to BCC. Half of its buildings are at least 80 years old.

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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

It’s where predominantly white institutions (PWIs) – due to their negligence, conscious or otherwise – center “whiteness” in the campus activities they offer, the music they play, the food they serve, and the artists they hire, Hollingsworth says. After she receives her Ph.D.,