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The National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments (NCSSLE) tracks trends and developments in issues related to school climate and conditions for learning through online media sites, blogs, syndication and aggregation services, and other news resources from local, regional, and national media outlets. Browse this ongoing collection of posts to learn about what’s happening in communities near you and across the nation.

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April 2024

04/09/2024
The Justice

The annual event included a gathering against sexual violence and walked through campus to the Lights of Reason. TBTN is a global movement against sexual assault. According to TBTN’s website, the… Read more »

04/09/2024
Inside Higher Ed

The University of Nevada, Las Vegas is launching an employee survey to better understand how university initiatives are supporting minority groups on campus and where the institution could invest… Read more »

04/09/2024
Diverse Issues in Higher Education

Achieving the Dream (ATD) has announced its selection of seven community colleges to participate in the second cohort of its Accelerating Equitable Outcomes initiative. “America’s rural… Read more »

04/09/2024
The DA

Students, faculty and community members who responded to a West Virginia University Police Department campus community safety survey reported feeling unsafe or extremely unsafe the most in… Read more »

04/09/2024
Higher Ed Spotlight

Even though access to college degrees and high-quality credentials has increased, completion rates still need improvement. With more than 40 million Americans in the "some college, no degree”… Read more »

04/09/2024
WBUR

Benard McKinley will soon be among hundreds of men and women attending Northwestern University's prestigious Pritzker Law School this year—but his path is unlike any of his fellow students.… Read more »

04/08/2024
WYSO

After a 12-year hiatus, Wilmington College is back to teaching in-person classes at several Ohio prisons. English professor Ursula McTaggart has been one of the driving forces behind the program,… Read more »

04/08/2024
Health Affairs

Decades of data on campus sexual assault show (again and again) that roughly 25 percent of college women experience a completed or attempted rape; among heterosexual men, the prevalence of campus… Read more »

04/08/2024
MedPageToday

Real-time instant messaging was more effective than text messaging at reducing alcohol intake. 

04/08/2024
New York Times

More than 60 percent of Baruch students receive Pell grants, which means they typically come from the bottom half of the income distribution. About 75 percent of undergraduates are people of color… Read more »

04/08/2024
State Press

Safety is a prevalent and important issue at any university. With ASU's main campus being located in the heart of Tempe and open to the public — excluding dorms and on-campus housing — there are… Read more »

04/08/2024
Diverse Issues in Higher Education

The profile of the average community college student is changing. While two-year institutions still have significant populations of adult students and people desirous of enhancing their career… Read more »

04/08/2024
Daily Iowan

The workshop was created in response to criticisms surrounding the safety of fraternity and sorority life on campus. 

04/08/2024
Christian Science Monitor

Nomi Badboy’s journey—more than 12 years sober after nine bouts of treatment—has created a structure in her life that supports college success as much as it supports her well-being. Her peers in… Read more »

04/08/2024
Runner

A study done by the National Sexual Violence Resource Center describes that one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted on college campuses across the United States. California… Read more »

04/08/2024
BU Today

Community organizer and poet Elizabeth Barker was an untenured instructor at Boston University in the early 1970s when she brought a group of BU students to the medium-security prison MCI Norfolk… Read more »

04/08/2024
KIMA

Yakima Valley College is offering first-generation students new support to help them navigate and graduate from college. The trio student support services program offers current YVC students… Read more »

04/06/2024
Michigan Public

A new study led by Harvard University researchers finds a jail education program in Michigan is lowering recidivism rates. Started in 2020 in the Genesee County Jail, the IGNITE (Inmate Growth… Read more »

04/06/2024
Robesonian

Harm reduction organizations around the Triangle, including a student-led program at UNC Chapel Hill, are working to prevent unintentional overdoses. Educating people on the use of naloxone is… Read more »

04/05/2024
Pennsylvania Pressroom

The Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE) has launched a new anti-stigma campaign to support postsecondary students struggling to meet basic needs such as housing, transportation, financial… Read more »

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