Media mentions: Campell quoted on supporting students' mental health; Love and Dillard discuss white fragility, racism; Delgado-Romero featured in video at !DALE Pa’lante! Accepted Students Day
**Campell quoted on supporting students’ mental health**
With the recent return to school, Hall County School District officials said they have prepared to meet the physical and mental health needs of their students.
According to the CDC website, social distancing can make people feel isolated and lonely and can increase stress and anxiety, and students are no exception.
Linda Campbell, a professor in the College’s Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, said that middle and high school students deal with stress differently than younger students. According to Campbell, it is likely that students are experiencing stress from not completing their previous school year and from being quarantined with family over the summer.
“[Reactions] could range anywhere from depression, anxiety, and levels of conflict, to other kinds of emotional dysregulation that they really can’t help,” Campbell told AccessWDUN. “Everyone has been affected and continues to be affected by this virus, and it is not an embarrassment.”
[Read the full story on AccessWDUN](https://accesswdun.com/article/2020/8/930847/hall-county-school-faculty-ready-to-support-students-mental-health).
**Love and Dillard discuss white fragility, racism**
Bettina Love, the Georgia Athletic Association Professor in Education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, discussed white fragility and racism in her essay, which was posted on Education Week.
In “There Is Nothing Fragile About Racism,” she said that “white fragility legitimizes white people’s belief that they are powerless as they continue to benefit from and consume unearned privileges, positions, and power.”
In the essay, Love calls upon Cynthia Dillard, the Mary Frances Early Professor of Teacher Education in the Department of Educational Theory and Practice, to discuss her perspective on white fragility. According to Dillard, there is nothing fragile about racism.
“Our current education system does not provide white students with anti-racist curriculum, language to call out racism, or teachers of color to learn from,” Love said. “After 13 years of schooling, many white students end their K-12 experience without ever having a teacher of color or being challenged to disrupt their learned racism. If we are going to begin the hard, anti-racist work of systemically eradicating racism from institutions and the everyday practices of white people, then we need white people to know just how powerful they are, how destructive racism is, and how managing inequality is not racial progress.”
[Read the full essay on Education Week](https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2020/08/25/there-is-nothing-fragile-about-racism.html).
**Delgado-Romero featured in video at !DALE Pa’lante! Accepted Students Day**
The New Approaches to Diversity and Inclusion grant program is one of many ways UGA is demonstrating a commitment to recruiting and retaining underserved, underrepresented, and first-generation students.
The Graduate School used funds from the grant to host !DALE Pa’lante! Accepted Students Day, a virtual recruitment event geared toward Latinx students who have been accepted to a UGA graduate program.
Edward Delgado-Romero, associate dean for faculty and staff services and professor in the Department of Counseling and Human Development Services, was featured in a recorded video shown at the event along with Vice Provost Michelle Cook and more.
Additionally, the Graduate School is using its funding to increase Latinx enrollment and create an inclusive and supportive campus community. To accomplish those goals, the Graduate School used funds to translate many of its recruitment materials into Spanish, including a [new website for prospective students](https://grad.uga.edu/index.php/prospective-students/en-espanol/).
[Read the full story on UGA Today](https://news.uga.edu/new-approaches-diversity-grants/?utm_source=ugatoday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ugatoday-20200824).