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Section: Opinion
Opinion
Outdoor Equity and Mental Health: A Pathway to Healing for Underrepresented Students
The intersection of diversity, equity, and inclusion and outdoor recreation is not just about representation, it is about healing, empowerment, and resilience.
July 1, 2025
Opinion
Leading by Learning: How TRIO Powers Generational Change
TRIO programs assist and empower students from disadvantaged backgrounds, especially low-income, first-generation college attendees, and those with disabilities. TRIO programs not only support students but also invest in staff, cultivating leadership and scholarship among those who walk the same paths as our students.
June 30, 2025
Opinion
The Board of Trustees Governance Model Is Ineffective in Higher Education
Debating the effectiveness of boards of trustees is not a new conversation topic in higher education. However, the events of 2025 so far have proven that debate to be a central question into the sustainability of American higher education itself.
June 27, 2025
Opinion
Leaders of Color Must Grieve, Rise, and Reimagine as DEI Is Dismantled
As I read the latest reports on DEI policy rollbacks and watched institutions quietly walk back their commitments to equity, I am reminded of the many times I sat in rooms where justice was treated as optional. Where belonging was discussed in metrics, not in truth and the people most impacted by harm were expected to stay silent to keep the peace.
June 26, 2025
Opinion
Why Inclusive Education Is So Difficult to Defend and Deliver
Even when we try to do everything right, teaching is hard. Inclusive teaching? That’s harder still. To make matters worse, our missteps — especially when they touch on race, identity, or systemic injustice — don’t always stay in the classroom. In today’s political climate, they can be distorted, weaponized, and used in broader attacks on DEI efforts.
June 25, 2025
Opinion
Supporting Counselor Trainees and Practitioners in the Wake of Racial Trauma
Unlike traditional trauma, which often results from a single event, racial trauma typically builds over time through repeated exposure to microaggressions, exclusion, and structural violence. In counseling, racial trauma shapes not only the emotional lives of clients but also the clinical and personal responses of counselors.
June 24, 2025
Opinion
How American Universities Cultivate Our Most Precious Resource
What’s the best investment we can make for our future? Based on nearly four decades of neuroscience research, I’d argue it’s not what’s in our wallets — but what’s in our brains.
June 23, 2025
Opinion
Removing Credit Transfer Barriers Key to Improving Higher Ed Completion Rates
Reforming the credit transfer process won’t solve every challenge facing higher education, but it’s a clear and necessary step toward improving the system for the good of both students and institutions themselves.
June 20, 2025
Opinion
Reflections on Juneteenth, Immigration Protests, and Liberatory Education
The Juneteenth holiday commemorates emancipation and offers higher ed staff and faculty an opportunity to reflect on their actions in support of diversity within their institutions. The Umoja Community Education Foundation’s Summer Learning Institute and recent immigration-related protests confirm that we can do more to support Black and other diverse groups in their pursuit of higher education as a path to freedom.
June 18, 2025
Opinion
Neurodivergent Minds, Traumatized Hearts: Recognizing PTSD in College Students
According to The National Center for PTSD, June is PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) Awareness Month.
June 17, 2025
Opinion
Proposed TRIO Cut Jeopardizes At-Risk Students’ Future
A proposed budget cut to TRIO programs could shut the door on opportunity for nearly one million students and erode the strength of the American middle class.
June 16, 2025
From the Magazine
National Junior College Athletic Association Head Coaches Reveal Athletic Equity is Present
Continuing the conversations around the best practices of athletic equity through the voice of the coaches is imperative for the future of collegiate athletics.
June 13, 2025
From the Magazine
Defining “Servingness” At Black-Serving Institutions
The concept of “servingness” is not new. It has long been associated with the Hispanic-Serving institution (HSI) designation that the Federal government established in the 1992 reauthorization of the Higher Education Act to recognize and provide funding and resources to colleges and universities that had a fulltime undergraduate enrollment of at least 25% Latinx.
June 11, 2025
Opinion
Going from Family Engagement to Family Partnerships With Black Marginalized Families
We give recommendations to improve family partnerships that will build rapport and strengthen relationships that leverage students' academic success and their learning experience.
June 11, 2025
From the Magazine
Leading With Purpose: Reflections on My Journey and Tenure at HACC
Throughout my career, I have been privileged to learn from some of the most thoughtful and respected leaders.
June 10, 2025
From the Magazine
Who Are We Becoming? Higher Education and The Cost of Moral Decline
Higher education is at an inflection point, but perhaps not for the reasons we may think.
June 9, 2025
Opinion
You Can’t Say You’re Pro-Life and Defund Job Corps
You cannot say you're pro-life and defund Job Corps. You cannot force someone to give birth and then strip away the services that would allow that child to succeed. If life is sacred, then it must be supported at every stage, not just at conception.
June 5, 2025
Opinion
May May Be Over, But Mental Health Challenges on Campus are Far from It
We cannot afford to relegate mental health to a single month on the calendar. Mental health is essential to student well-being and must be central to the work of educators, advocates, and policy leaders throughout the year.
June 5, 2025
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