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  • Demand for immigration legal services spikes at California colleges

    February 03, 2025 |

    CalMatters |

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    Response Location: United States, California

    In the University of California and California State University systems, undocumented students have access to Dream resource centers where they can get support with financial aid, mental health services, community-building, and legal aid for immigration cases. These services have seen demand skyrocket since the 2024 presidential election and subsequent executive orders around immigration.

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  • Inside the Bridge's 'fight to stay alive'

    January 16, 2025 |

    The Stanford Daily |

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    Response Location: United States, Palo Alto, California

    The Bridge Peer Counseling Center provides 24/7, free, anonymous counseling to students, by students. The student counselors are trained in crisis response and volunteer over 30 hours each week to keep the center running, ensuring mental health support is always accessible on campus.

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  • AttackAgainstAsthma: An initiative tackles Nigeria's asthma crisis on college campuses

    December 09, 2024 |

    Prime Progress |

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    Response Location: Nigeria, Ibadan, Oyo State

    The Attack Against Asthma initiative uses crowdfunding initiatives to purchase inhalers that are then distributed to university students with asthma. Since launching in 2023, the campaign has distributed over 700 inhalers in the country’s southwest region and has even extended support to people who aren’t students if they can provide proof of need.

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  • Campus Food Recovery Network Serves Local Community

    November 12, 2024 |

    Pepperdine University Graphic |

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    Response Location: United States, Malibu, California

    Pepperdine University’s Food Recovery Network club rescues unconsumed food from events on campus and a local Starbucks and gives it to nonprofits in the area that distribute it to those in need. Since forming in the Fall 2016 semester, the club has rescued 14,603 pounds of food that would have otherwise ended up in a landfill.

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  • Black women lean into leadership program to build power and sisterhood

    October 22, 2024 |

    USA Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    The Power, Innovation and Leadership executive education program brings Black women together to train them to become strong leaders, spearheading causes around issues like reducing poverty, advocating for reproductive justice and protecting voting rights. 25 women have graduated from the program already, and the next cohort is set to start in January, as they work toward their goal of training 100 Black women leaders.

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  • Purdue program works to revive liberal arts as key part of the college experience

    October 21, 2024 |

    PBS NewsHour |

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    Response Location: United States, West Lafayette, Indiana

    Amid a decline in students pursuing degrees in the liberal arts, Purdue University created the Cornerstone program, which integrates liberal arts concepts into the freshman curriculum, allowing students to learn about a wide range of subjects through the lens of classic texts. The initiative has allowed the university to hire more than 100 new liberal arts faculty and the model has already spread to more than 70 colleges across the country.

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  • The 'Covid Cohort'

    September 28, 2024 |

    Encore Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Kalamazoo, Michigan

    After the pandemic left youth stunted academically and socially, several programs emerged to help prepare them for college and the working world. Kalamazoo Valley Community College’s Valley Advantage program is a three-week, state-funded program that allows incoming students to brush up on their academic and social skills. These “catch-up” programs pay students to participate, and an analysis of last year’s program shows participants achieved higher GPAs and reported increased self-confidence.

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  • Catching up with CAST, CSULB's crisis prevention workers

    September 20, 2024 |

    Long Beach Current |

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    Response Location: United States, Long Beach, California

    The Campus Assessment & Stabilization Team (CAST) assists the University Police Department in mental health-related emergency and non-emergency calls, both on and off campus. CAST consists of a team of social workers who assist law enforcement in handling calls, particularly those where a person is experiencing an emotional crisis.

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  • The Need for Period Products in Private Universities

    September 10, 2024 |

    Pepperdine University Graphic |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    Aunt Flow provides period product dispensers to colleges and universities so students can access free menstrual care. The company is currently partnered with over 800 universities.

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  • How colleges can become 'living labs' for combating climate change

    July 30, 2024 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Colleges across the United States are adopting the “campus as a living lab” approach to integrate climate change mitigation and environmental education into curriculums and combine them with efforts to make campuses more sustainable. Students across departments work on projects relevant to their degrees and the environment, many of which are implemented by the schools.

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