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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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March 2021

03/26/2021
Portland Press Herald

The positivity rate remains below the state average but some students and staff are not participating in weekly COVID-19 testing.

03/25/2021

A new report by the Center for Community College Student Engagement sheds more details about the impact of the pandemic on first-time students at community colleges, which have seen staggering… Read more »

03/24/2021
KTNV

A local program is empowering students to make school a better place for everyone. Bully Busters 702, run by Big Keith Bowen, teaches students to speak out and help their fellow student who… Read more »

03/24/2021
WGN9

Chicago Public Schools is partnering with five community groups to rethink school safety without resource officers.

CPS said they concluded the first phase of what they call the Whole… Read more »

03/24/2021
Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Many of the state’s largest public universities said they’re planning to increase access to the COVID-19 vaccines after the governor announced he’s directing the state to expand vaccine… Read more »

03/24/2021
Diverse Issues in Higher Education

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.

03/24/2021
Diverse Issues in Higher Education

Have we entered a season of hope for student mental health? The outlook for student well-being may finally be improving with COVID-19 cases going down, vaccinations going up, and more schools… Read more »

03/24/2021
Inside Higher Education

Students reflect on what has worked, what has not and what they want from their colleges post-COVID. (Hint: Keep that lecture recording button handy and virtual support options available.)

03/23/2021
Acadiana Advocate

Enthusiasts for Louisiana’s community colleges and technical programs say they’ll emerge from the Covid-19 era with robust resources and rebounding enrollments.

03/22/2021
New America

Enrollment is down almost ten percent across community colleges. This spring, declining enrollment has continued disproportionately impacting Indigenous, Black, and Latino students. We wanted to… Read more »

03/21/2021
USA Today

From grade school to graduate school, developing young minds in close physical proximity halted abruptly in mid-March 2020.

03/20/2021
Washington Post

In mid-March in a normal year (remember those?) college seniors would be counting down the days to graduation, administrators would be finalizing commencement ceremony plans and family members… Read more »

03/19/2021
Reuters

With schools nationwide locked down amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the mental health consequences on students have come into a sharp focus.  Reuters surveyed school districts nationwide in… Read more »

03/19/2021
U.S. Department of Education

To provide ongoing relief from the COVID-19 emergency and implement provisions in the American Rescue Plan recently signed by President Biden, the U.S. Department of Education (… Read more »

03/18/2021
The 74

As its moniker suggests, the madness in March is about much more than basketball. For the past four years, we have also participated in March Madness bracketology. We have done so by creating a… Read more »

03/18/2021
12 WBOY

West Virginia University has launched a new texting service that is aimed to reinforce safe choices regarding alcohol and to curb binge drinking among students.

03/18/2021
LAist

Campus administrators say its First Year Experience program has provided support that has kept the vast majority of LACC students enrolled during the pandemic, as other community colleges across… Read more »

03/17/2021
ABC 13 Community Impact Newspaper

A group of Clear Creek ISD high school students has earned statewide recognition from the Texas School Safety Center's School Safety Spotlight Program for their work on the district's Safely… Read more »

03/17/2021
WSILTV

Middle school children in Charleston, Missouri are getting a valuable lesson in bullying with a St. Louis area mother on a mission to honor the memory of her daughter.

03/17/2021
Ed Source

Campuses hand out gift cards and organize outdoor activities as incentives for students to stay local.

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