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Focusing on Mental Health Challenges Facing Community College Students

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Elisabeth Lackner, director of institutional research at Queensborough Community College (QCC) in New York City, said the report reflects what QCC students experience. “We We also provide workshops in the classrooms,” he added. For example, we’ll do a test anxiety workshop or how to manage stress in college.

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UNCF Announces UNITE 2025 Summit, Offers Complimentary Registration to All HBCUs and PBIs

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The five-day event at the Signia by Hilton Hotel will feature over 100 sessions focusing on institutional excellence, student success, research, economic mobility, and systems change.

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Lumina Convening Focuses on the Power of HBCUs

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A Lumina Foundation convening brought together leaders from historically Black colleges and universities to engage with researchers, policy experts and the philanthropic community to strategize on the future of these storied institutions.

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Breaking Barriers: The Struggle for Inclusion on Community College Campuses

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Some community colleges have already begun implementing Universal Design for Learning (UDL) a framework to improve teaching and learning for allon their campuses, such as Montgomery Colleges Universal Design Center, which Trent highlighted as a model institution in providing faculty workshops and resources focused on inclusion.

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Report Highlights Key Challenges and Support Needs for Early Career Faculty at MSIs

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While MSIs play a key role in promoting faculty diversity by consistently employing more educators of color than other institutions, MSI faculty also face pressures, such as heavy teaching and advising loads, high expectations for research and publishing, and limited resources for career development.

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The Importance of Immigrant-Origin Students to Two Campuses, Higher Education, and the USA

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Researchers indicate that Queens is home to more in use languages - approximately 200than anywhere else in the world. Our institution is approximately one-third first generation immigrant, like my parents, and approximately one-third second generation immigrantthe children of newcomers. On our campus alone, at least 80 languages are spoken.

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A Scholar’s Fight for Community Power - Dr. Jonathan D. Gomez

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Dr. Anne Marie Todd, Dean of the College of Social Sciences, says Gomezs research provides the foundation for his teaching and service. For example, he founded and facilitates the Culture Counts Reading Series, a bi-weekly poetry reading, writing and discussion workshop featuring works by San Jos poets.

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