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Dr. Maxine Roberts Takes the Helm of Strong Start to Finish

Dr. Maxine Roberts started as the director of Strong Start to Finish this March. She’s ready to take a deep dive into why developmental education reforms aren’t working for all students.

Report Details COVID-19’s Massive Impact on Student Food Insecurity

Five urban public universities participated in research to identify the impact of food insecurity and present viable solutions.

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Report Highlights Industry Partnerships Established by HBCU Presidents

A new report reveals how some presidents of historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are building business and industry partnerships to improve the stability of their institutions.

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Report Shows How COVID-19 Is Impacting the Community College Experience

On Thursday, the Center for Community College Student Engagement (the Center) at the University of Texas at Austin released “The Impact of COVID-19 on Entering Students in Community Colleges,” a report which spotlights the ongoing issues of students who have enrolled despite the obstacles caused by the pandemic. The survey was administered in fall 2020 to 5,193 entering students at 38 colleges around the country.

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2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Felipe Blanco

Academia is where Felipe Blanco, a third-year public administration Ph.D. student at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), feels he is meant to be.

Conference Highlights Improvements to Student Affairs Practices on Campuses

Student affairs practitioners shared personal practices and examples on ways to confront inequities within the student conduct process at this year’s NASPA virtual conference.

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2021 Diverse Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Danielle Baker

Danielle Baker has long been concerned with human trafficking — the process whereby individuals are forced to endure inhumane abuses such as being forced into sexual slavery or subjected to organ removal and selling. But her mission to promote awareness about the growing multibillion-dollar industry has grown even stronger in the wake of recently losing someone close to her who was trafficked.

A Q&A with Jessica Gray, Assistant Athletics Director at Texas Tech University

Jessica Gray, assistant athletics director at Texas Tech University, discusses student-athlete activism, COVID-19-related challenges and the little things that have helped her get through the pandemic.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Vinicius Rios

Dedicated to swimming, Vinicius Rios had hopes of reaching the Olympics. That passion led to a swimming scholarship at West Virginia University Institute of Technology (WVU Tech). But, after not realizing his swimming dreams, Rios shifted his focus to business and marketing. However, his true interest was in videography and photography.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Amanda Parks

The daughter of mental health professionals — a mother who is a licensed clinical social worker and a father who heads a behavioral health care organization — Amanda Parks says she was “taught at a young age to use my voice to uplift those who may be voiceless as a result of what I now know to be oppression.” She is currently using her voice and training to advocate for Black and Brown children and their families as a doctoral student in clinical psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Jaylon Uzodinma

Jaylon Uzodinma knew he wanted to design aircraft since he was eight years old. A kid “infatuated with speed,” he read a book in his third-grade class called How Things Work with a diagram of the inside of an airplane. That was the “first moment” he saw the career path lying ahead of him.

2021 Rising Graduate Scholars: Meet Cherish Taylor

For Cherish Taylor, having the opportunity to spend her 11th and 12th grade summers at the Massachusetts Institute for Technology exploring engineering and science opened new horizons and provided a foundation for her future research.

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