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Leaders Urge Schools to Address ‘Culture of Detachment’ Among Students

Leaders Urge Schools to Address ‘Culture of Detachment’ Among StudentsBALTIMORECiting a vast body of empirical evidence, leaders in education and public health policy are calling on the nation’s schools to strengthen their connections with students, outlining a multi-pronged strategy aimed at boosting academic performance while reducing drug and alcohol use, suicide, violence, smoking and sex […]

Meeting the Challenges Of Change

Meeting the Challenges Of ChangeTIAA-CREF’s BeRtram L. Scott discusses how the legendary financial institution responds to new environments in its quest to continue to help higher education professionals By Frank L. MatthewsIn an era in which change is very much the norm, some would argue that a no-nonsense financial institution like TIAA-CREF changes at its […]

Auditors Recommend USC Return Nearly $1 Million

Auditors Recommend USC Return Nearly $1 Million For HIV/AIDS Training LapseLOS ANGELES Federal auditors have recommended the University of Southern California repay or forfeit more than $1 million in government funds following lapses in its training program for HIV/AIDS counselors for minority communities. Federal officials shut down the university’s program in 2001 amid concerns about […]

University of Maryland Establishes Center To Promote Equal Access to Health Care

University of Maryland Establishes Center To Promote Equal Access to Health CareBALTIMORE Heart disease among Blacks, chewing tobacco in Western Maryland, geographic isolation on Maryland’s Eastern Shore and diabetes rates among Hispanics are some of the issues that will be tackled by a new University of Maryland center dedicated to eliminating health care disparities for […]

Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities Gap

Joint Center Health Official Challenges Black Doctors to Close Disparities GapThe country’s nagging health disparities problem was a key focus for Dr. Gail C. Christopher, director of the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies’ Health Policy Institute, when she addressed the 102nd annual convention of the National Medical Association on Aug. 2 in San […]

Benedict College Environmental Health Program

Benedict College Environmental Health Program First in South Carolina to Receive AccreditationCOLUMBIA, S.C.Those students across the nation seeking to earn an undergraduate degree in the environmental health field from an accredited program can now attend Benedict College, the first institution of higher learning in South Carolina to receive national accreditation in environmental health. Under the […]

Few College Programs Reap Gains From Education Spending Bill

Few College Programs Reap Gains From Education Spending BillHBCUs, community colleges receive small victoriesBy Charles DervaricsBlack colleges are one of the few winners in a new 2005 House education spending bill that largely holds the line on federal funding for higher education, including core financial aid programs essential for needy students.The main federal program for […]

Events

EVENTSAUGUSTAug. 6-10National Association of Black Journalists: 28th Annual Convention and Career Fair“Building the Best”DallasWeb: www.nabj.orgAug. 13-16Association of Black Sociologists“Frontloading Social Reality: Critical Demography and Black Superiority in Wealth, Stats and Power”Hyatt Regency, AtlantaContact: Frank Harold Wilson, program chairman, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-MilwaukeeE-mail: chocchip@uwm.eduFax: (414) 229-4266Aug. 29-Sept. 1The Civil Rights Project“The Color Lines Conference:Segregation […]

UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism

UGA Wins Knight Chair in Health and Medical JournalismATHENS, Ga. The University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication won a major endowment grant to create an innovative Knight Chair in Health and Medical Journalism.The grant will allow the Grady College to develop and teach undergraduate and master’s courses in health and medical […]

Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks

Study Shows Eye Drops Can Delay, Prevent Glaucoma in Blacks SACRAMENTO, Calif. University of California-Davis ophthalmologists and other researchers around the country have found that pressure-lowering eye drops can delay or possibly prevent the onset of glaucoma in almost 50 percent of African Americans who are at higher risk for developing the disease.The findings are based […]

More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts Say

More Research Needed on Growing Disparity Between White, Black Infant Death Rates, Experts SayCHICAGO When Nakida Maxson was pregnant, some of her friends teased her about going to birthing classes and taking prenatal vitamins, saying they were things only White people did. Maxson, who’s Black, ignored her friends. “It’s not a White people thing, it’s […]

Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study Finds

Blacks With Hypertension More Likely to Have Thicker Hearts, Study FindsDALLASResearchers say they may have found a new clue as to why Blacks are at greater risk of dying from heart disease than Whites. In the largest study of its kind, Blacks with high blood pressure were found to have thicker hearts than Whites with […]

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