Promoting Racial Equity in Student Mental Health
Hosted by National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan, The Steve Fund, and University of Southern California, Race & Equity Center
August 19, 2021
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Location
Zoom Webinar
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Mental health remains a significant concern for students of color in higher education. Students of color often report experiencing daily micro-aggressions, harassment, alongside racial discrimination, as they navigate classroom and institutional contexts at their college or university. As such, promoting and ensuring supportive and responsive learning environments can alleviate the stress experienced by students of color as well as strengthen and reframe how we define student success.
As their campuses prepare to welcome them back for in-person instruction, recognizing, attending to, and ameliorating the effects of the past year’s accumulated racial trauma will be critical to support and promote student thriving and healing. Participants will gain a deeper understanding of the unique racial traumas that undergraduate and graduate students of color may face in and outside of their classrooms.
Join the University of Southern California, Racial & Equity Center, The Steve Fund, and the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan for practical and culturally sensitive recommendations and strategies to help instructors foster mental well being for students of color as many return to in-person instruction.
Moderated by Carlota Ocampo, Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs; Associate Professor of Psychology at the Trinity Washington University; Steve Fund National Advisor
Panelists
Stephen Quaye, Associate Professor in Education Studies at The Ohio State University
Cirleen DeBlaere, Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at Georgia State University & Steve Fund Mental Health Expert
William Lopez, Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Behavior & Health Education at University of Michigan
Date posted
Aug 11, 2021
Date updated
Aug 16, 2021