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Housing scholarship aids underrepresented students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

“It begins to change how someone thinks about their academic career, how they take on leadership opportunities on campus and how they take on relationships with other students.” ” When students travel to and from campus for classes, they worry about commute times, rush hour, weather conditions, Alba adds.

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Christmas at Hope

Hope College Network

Especially with snow on the ground, it feels like I’ve been transported into an idyllic Christmas painting. Vespers In case you don’t know, Vespers is a Christmas music extravaganza featuring all three of Hope’s vocal ensembles, our orchestra, and a few student organ players. Christmas at Hope is nothing short of magical.

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A Call to Action: Higher Education Must Implement Culturally Responsive Mental Health Practices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

For example, as a staple in the community, the Black church can collaborate with college campuses or minority student organizations to implement spiritual wellness, a component of psychological health for racially minoritized populations, cited as being helpful.

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11 Effective Self-Directed Student Fundraiser Project Ideas

Experiential Learning Depot

Students would need rakes (shovels for snow removal), and some bags for leaf collecting. Students would also need transportation. I encourage students to advertise their services in their own neighborhoods for that reason. My students usually make fliers and pass them out around the school community.

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Student Spotlight: Alexander’s Semester Abroad in Budapest

AIFS Abroad

By choosing to spend an entire semester in Budapest, Hungary instead of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, I was giving up half a year of memories with my friends, opportunities with multiple student organizations, and the opportunity to learn from multiple professors at UA in my field of Economics and Finance.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

Second, it helps us understand and appreciate graduate student’s efforts to win the right to be recognized as employees (not “apprentices” on a stipend) who rely on their jobs for living. Such coalitions create power through the interdependency of all the workforces in a college or university.

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What Keeps Facilities Leaders Up at Night?

EAB

But oftentimes, for universities, it's the scope three emissions, which are things related to tangential activities like travel, transportation, study abroad, that are the real open questions. And what consequences that might have on what services we provide and our relative position in the rankings and prestige across the world?