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How to address student wellness, post-pandemic

Karen Gross | May 25, 2020

First, respond to trauma; then, create (and assess) wellness programs to facilitate ongoing student success, says UB guest columnist Karen Gross, who emphasizes the importance of incorporating the values of transparency, tranquility, tolerance and temperance.

Thousands will be out of college: What does that mean for students and institutions?

Karen Gross | March 15, 2020

UB guest columnist Karen Gross considers the implications of closing campus and/or turning to online learning, and offers 10 concrete suggestions for higher ed leaders to help students cope. She is the former president of Southern Vermont College.

The international language of help—and hope

Xochitl Cervantes | September 23, 2019

A group of students from Notre Dame de Namur University in California went to the South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley, Texas, to interpret for Spanish-speaking women and children who had crossed the border from Mexico, and were seeking asylum.

6 keys for an effective school or university investigation

Ty E. Howard &JD Solomon | March 05, 2019

School investigations pose special problems for administrators and counsel. While there is no one-size-fits-all approach to any investigation, here are six keys for any school faced with a situation requiring an investigation.

UB op-ed: Education's many stakeholders (An article revisited)

Karen Gross &JD Solomon | February 25, 2019

Five observations stand out when we revisit and reconsider a stakeholder question from 2005.

Colleges must work to mitigate concussion risk now and in the future

Web Editor | August 28, 2018

Insurance carriers working in the higher education space are taking a keen interest in understanding and evaluating how colleges and universities manage brain injury risk in collegiate sports. Almost all markets now require more detailed underwriting information about the risk of traumatic brain injury and verification that insureds are following NCAA guidelines. Additionally, insurance carriers […]

Designing higher ed for a healthy democracy

JD Solomon | June 14, 2018

Governors State University in Illinois opened in the 1970s as one of a handful of two-year “upper division” schools for students finishing their degrees. It quickly proved unsustainable as far as attracting students and providing a complete education experience. In Leading Academic Change: Vision, Strategy, Transformation (2018, Stylus Publishers), the university’s president, Elaine Maimon, discusses […]

Concussion crackdown in higher ed athletics

chrisni | August 25, 2015

Fans at a University of New Haven football game might notice an odd sideline sight: medical personnel with their heads hunched over smartphones. But these athletic trainers are not checking text messages or updating their Facebook status. Rather, they are monitoring real-time data about the force of their players’ on-field collisions. In 2013 the Connecticut […]

English: 399-101 – Trauma Narratives

Melissa Ezarik | June 20, 2014

English: 399-101: Trauma Narratives Shenandoah University (Va.) Taught by Michelle Brown, assistant professor of English in world literatures “Trauma Narratives is a hybrid creative writing and literature course. We will study fictional and autobiographical traumatic narratives from around the world, and trauma theory to understand why and how traumatic experiences are artistically narrated. Simultaneously, students […]

‘Trigger warnings’ trigger college debate

JD Solomon | June 13, 2014

We’ve all seen the familiar warning preceding TV shows: “The following program contains material that may be disturbing.Viewer discretion is advised.” Online, the term “trigger warning” is a common notation on women’s blogs and forums to alert readers, particularly victims of sexual abuse, of content they might want to avoid. Now several universities, spurred by […]

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