Promoting Racial Equity in Student Mental Health: Considerations and Strategies for Returning to In-Person Instruction (USC Race & Equity Center)

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.

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.

Flex Credit

Flex credit is available for this event.  Event Code 210845.

Audience

All are welcome.

Moderator

• 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,
  The Ohio State University
• Cirleen DeBlaere
  Associate Professor in Counseling Psychology,
  Georgia State University & Steve Fund Mental Health Expert
• William Lopez
  Clinical Assistant Professor in Health Behavior & Health Education,
  University of Michigan

Organizers

In partnership with the National Center for Institutional Diversity, University of Michigan and the University of Southern California, Race & Equity Center

ADA Accessibility

For ADA accessibility accommodations, please contact David Lockwood at LockwoD@scc.losrios.edu. Contact David for disability accommodations only. For general inquiries, please use the contact information listed above.