Stephen Quaye, PhD
“Mental health remains a significant concern for students of color in higher education. Students of color often report experiencing daily micro-aggressions, harrassment, 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. In addition, this session offers practical and culturally sensitive recommendations regarding how instructors can foster mental well-being for students of color in their courses.”
August 19
3:00 pm-4:30 pm ET
Zoom Registration: Closed
In partnership with the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan and the University of Southern California, Race & Equity Center
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 Ohio State University
Cirleen DeBlaere, Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology at Georgia State University & Steve Fund Mental Health Expert
Bill Lopez, Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Behavior & Health Education at University of Michigan
