Building Inclusive Campuses by Carlota Ocampo - ISBN: 9781433847929
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Transforming higher education for inclusive student success and campus-wide wellbeing.
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Building Inclusive Campuses

Promoting Mental Health, Wellness, and Success for Students of Color

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    238 pages

  • Release Date

    13 October 2026

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Summary

This guide equips faculty, administrators, and psychologists in higher education with practical strategies for initiating institutional, curricular, and classroom reforms that will create academic communities where all students can thrive.

Mental health and emotional wellness are central to retention, persistence, and learning, yet longstanding structural barriers and embedded biases continue to undermine these outcomes for students of color. When schools fail to address these conditi…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781433847929
ISBN-10:1433847922
Author:Carlota Ocampo, David P. Rivera
Publisher:American Psychological Association
Imprint:American Psychological Association
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:238
Release Date:13 October 2026
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm
About The Author

Carlota Ocampo

Carlota Ocampo, PhD, is provost and CAO at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC, a predominantly Black and Hispanic-serving women’s college, where she implements student-centered initiatives to support flourishing. A neuropsychologist, her APA work includes serving on the Leadership Institute for Women in Psychology advisory council and task forces on teaching and assessment; she was also an American Psychologist predoctoral fellow. On the board of The Steve Fund, she was a national advisor for the Excellence in Mental Health Framework. Her research interests encompass diversity, inequity, health, racist incident-based trauma, and pedagogical reform with changing student populations.

David P. Rivera, PhD, is associate professor and coordinator of graduate programs in mental health and school counseling at Queens College, City University of New York, and is founding director of the LGBTQI Student Leadership Program. His research, guided by critical theories and social justice, explores cultural competency and the wellbeing of marginalized communities. He coedited the award-winning books Affirming LGBTQ Students in Higher Education and Critical Theories for School Psychology and Counseling. Dr. Rivera holds leadership positions with The Steve Fund, the Society for the Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity, and the Council for Opportunity in Education.

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