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Maryland Launches $1 Million COVID-19 Vaccination Scholarship Program

Maryland Gov. Hogan announced earlier this month, the launch of the $1 million VaxU scholarship program. The effort is to incentivize those eligible, kids between 12-17 to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the governor said. Anyone between those ages who was vaccinated in the state is automatically entered to win. Winners will receive a $50,000 scholarship […]

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Iona College To Establish Health Science School on Former Concordia College Campus

NewYork-Presbyterian, an academic health care network, has donated $20 million to establish a NewYork-Presbyterian Iona School of Health Sciences, in partnership with Iona College, reports The Journal News. The new school will be on Concordia College’s former campus in Bronxville, which Iona College bought after Concordia announced that it would be closing. Iona’s plans to […]

ACCT Offers New Ways for Rural and Tribal Colleges to Connect and Grow

Rural colleges and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) could be strengthened by federal and statewide efforts to make broadband connection a telecommunications utility, through better funding, and more support for student’s basic mental health care needs. That’s the findings of the Association of Community College Trustees (AACT), who spent 18 months researching the issue at […]

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Cultural Competence, Equity Practices Key Themes of Campus Prevention Network Summit

Stepping onto Paul Quinn College’s campus for the first time as president in 2007, Dr. Michael J. Sorrell faced a school on the verge of closure. The historically Black college in Dallas held a mere 1% graduation rate and hovered at about a 30% retention rate. This made recruiting high-quality faculty members difficult. Read More

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Coping with Mental Health Concerns Amid COVID-19

I currently live with anxiety and depression. I have lived with mental health concerns for over ten years, and I am still ok. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I would not have been able to publicly admit the first line of this article because of feelings of embarrassment and shame. However, by acknowledging my mental health […]

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National Community-Based Health Teams Reflect on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

A group of public health researchers across the country recently convened to discuss their work and outreach efforts around the coronavirus pandemic in African American and Latino communities, both rural and urban. It’s no secret that COVID-19 has ravaged low-income communities of color at disproportionate rates. As a result, many public health officials are strategizing […]

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Marquette University’s College of Education Receives Grant to Strengthen Behavioral Health Workforce

To meet the growing need for child and adolescent clinical mental health counselors, the United States Department of Health and Human Services gifted $980,000 to Marquette University’s College of Education. Through the funding, 62 students in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology will receive internship stipends until 2025 to complete clinical placements in […]

Penn State’s College of Nursing Receives Historic $27M Gift

Penn State’s College of Nursing has received a pledged gift of $27.125 million from Ross and Carol Nese, longtime supporters of the college. It is the largest gift ever given to the College of Nursing and the second-largest single commitment to an academic unit in Penn State’s history. In honor of the Neses’ “landmark commitment,” […]

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Steve Fund, JED’s Equity in Mental Health Framework Shows Promising Results

Students of color are almost twice as likely to not seek mental health care, compared to White students, according to the Steve Fund, a mental health nonprofit devoted to young people of color, and The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide. That’s why, in 2017, the two nonprofits provided institutions with a set […]

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N.J. To Distribute $30M More in Federal COVID Aid to Colleges and Universities

New Jersey is doling out $30 million more in federal aid to help its colleges and universities recover from the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for the future. The majority of the funding, $28.5 million, will go to nearly three dozen schools that applied to the state’s competitive grant program, “Opportunity Meets Innovation Challenge,” in which the money […]

Study Shows 42 Percent of Incoming College Freshmen Say the Pandemic Influenced Their Choice in Major

MILWAUKEE — The pandemic is affecting our college freshmen’s choice of major. Statistics builder Intelligent surveyed more than 1,200 incoming college freshmen. Eleven of them were from Wisconsin. The survey shows 42-percent of incoming freshmen said the pandemic did influence their choice of major. More students are wanting to pursue the legal area, as well as […]

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Arizona’s Ban on Mask Mandates in Schools Criticized by Health Experts

PHOENIX – Health experts are concerned that Arizona’s recently approved budget, which bans public schools and universities from enforcing mask mandates and COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated students, is endangering public health across the state. In a virtual panel assembled by the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national advocacy organization that aims to “fight for […]

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