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DNA mapping: a road less traveled by HBCUs – historically Black colleges and universities, Human Genome Project – special report:health sciences

It is possible that in the very near future, a doctor will be able to take a blood sample — or even a piece of toenail — from a person and tell everything about who they are biologically.

LSU wants state health secretary to run med school, hospitals

BATON ROUGE, La. Louisiana State University is trying to convince the head of the state health department to run its medical school and hospitals, including the state charity hospital system.

Nevada University Need to Offer Health Benefits to Domestic Partners, Says Public Employees Benefits Board

CARSON CITY Nev. Nevada’s universities need to offer health benefits to employees’ domestic partners in order to stay competitive in hiring faculty and staff, state regulators were told Wednesday.

Affirmative action is indispensable if we want doctors for the 21st century – importance of minority representation in medicine

Affirmative action is an umbrella that covers many activities — from aggressive recruiting to filling quotas, from the awarding of contracts to higher education admissions. This means that opponents can call up unpopular images of the most aggressive examples of affirmative action (such as hiring set-asides) to attack the entire idea of affirmative action.

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war.

Educating a New Majority: Transforming America’s Educational System for Diversity. – book reviews

Supreme Court Justice Antonio Scalia described the debate on the Colorado gay rights case as part of a “kulturkampf,” a German word meaning culture war. The term dates to the 1870s when Chancellor Otto Von Bismarck used the concept to eradicate Catholic influence in German society, using “government to enforce ideas of a German identity; a German way of thinking, a German culture, a more German Germany.”

Leadership & Policy

UMDNJ’s New President Talks About His Vision

On July 1, the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey will welcome its first African-American president, William F. Owen Jr., an accomplished researcher and clinician.

Gene bashing – dilemma of black geneticists working on the National Institute of Health’s Human Genome Project

Black Scientists on Prestigious Genome Project Voice Concerns.

Grants & Gifts

The City College of New York has received a four-year, $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue the college’s participation in the Institute of General Medical Sciences’ SCORE program. The program provides research funds for faculty development at minority-serving institutions. A collaborative effort between the City College of San Francisco and […]

Advocacy Group Offers Model Policy on Mental Health Problems

Most college campuses have counseling services to deal with students who may have a potentially serious mental health problem, but not all institutions have a well-defined policy that benefits students while addressing the school’s concerns about liability.

Perspectives: On Immigration and Black Unemployment, Congressional Black Caucus Remains Silent

Missing from the debate on Capitol Hill about immigration reform is the Congressional Black Caucus, which should be standing up against policies that enable immigrants to compete with Blacks and other low-wage, low-skill workers for housing, health care, education, employment opportunities and goods and services.

Faculty Unions Come Together in Renewed Spirit

With private colleges governed by the National Labor Relations Act and only one-third of public colleges unionized, faculty and staff at many colleges are finding themselves voiceless.

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