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Finding a Place at an HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

This leaves minority students to have to create “counter-spaces of community,” for themselves, on their own. Hollingsworth’s dissertation directly examines this ongoing phenomenon, focusing particularly on the experiences of Black women students leading Black student union chapters at PWIs, says the Ph.D.

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Building Community through Faculty, Staff, and Student Mixers

The Student Affairs Blog

The Faculty, Staff & Student Mixers, hosted by The Office of Multicultural Student Affairs (OMSA) are designed to bring together members of VCU’s diverse communities in a welcoming and celebratory environment.

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Building Assessment Culture One Cup of Coffee at a Time

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

Here is the next installment of our conversation series getting to know the leaders that make up this wonderful group of Student Affairs Assessment Leaders and learning from their personal stories. Hardly anyone started out as student affairs assessment, but just ended up, for a variety of reasons, being really into it.

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TM2 Revival Brings Fresh Approach to HBCU Executive Searches

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Despite earning a biochemistry degree at Lamar University with parental expectations of medical school, Doman found his true calling in student affairs. Working in the student union as an undergraduate led to leadership roles, eventually guiding him toward a career in higher education administration.

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Sorted Into SAAL: How I Found my Place in the Magical World of Assessment

Student Affairs Assessment Leaders (SAAL)

For me, that has been the Student Affairs Assessment community, and more specifically SAAL. This continued into college where some key staff and faculty mentors (my very own Professors McGonagall and Dumbledore) led me to Student Affairs. I’ve known since I was a little girl that I wanted to be a teacher.