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Health Web Site for Black Women Launched

Health Web Site for Black Women LaunchedBy Ronald Roach WASHINGTONThe National Black Women’s Health Project has launched what is destined to be the pre-eminent online gathering place on health for African American women, . Recognizing the importance and power of the Internet, as well as the growing rate of Internet use by African American women, […]

University of Alabama to Spend $28 Million on Research About Strokes Among Blacks, Southerners

Events

EventsOCTOBEROct. 23-25The Colorado Workplace Equity Coalition Inc.18th Annual Conference“Synchronicity” Working Together in UnityPueblo Convention CenterPueblo, Colo.For more information: www.cwequity.comOct. 24-27Association of American Colleges and Universities4th Biennial Diversity and Learning Conference“Education for a World Lived in Common”Hyatt Regency, St. LouisPhone: (202) 387-3760E-mail: meetings@aacu.nw.dc.usWeb: www.aacu-edu.orgOct. 26-29Hispanic Association of Colleges and Universities16th Annual Conference“Hispanic Empowerment: America’s Key to […]

Getting Your Facts Straight

Getting Your Facts StraightSay you’re writing a report and need to double-check a fact or two. Or say you just heard something on TV or the radio and want to make sure it’s correct. What do you do?In the past, you reached for an almanac or encyclopedia or headed to the library. Today, in the […]

Faculty & Staff

Speaking The Patient’s Language

Speaking The Patient’s LanguageIn efforts to more effectively serve the increasingly Hispanic clientele, University of Texas requires Spanish courses for health care students, but critics question responsibility of language barrier.By Lydia LumAs this country becomes increasingly Hispanic, a growing number of universities now offer — and sometimes require — Spanish courses geared to health care […]

Addressing HIV/AIDS in the Classroom

Addressing HIV/AIDS in the ClassroomEducators encouraged to teach the ‘whole child’By Phaedra BrothertonWASHINGTONA 20-member panel of scholars, practitioners and teacher education experts came together last month to determine the core information K-12 educators need to know in order to address HIV/AIDS in their classrooms and, ultimately, to help prevent the spread of the disease. Funded […]

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Fighting Tobacco Use Among Blacks

Fighting Tobacco Use Among BlacksPilot projects at NCCU, Morgan State train students to be better informed on tobacco issuesBy Eleanor Lee YatesSignificant pilot projects at two historically Black colleges and universities will train students to gather more data and address the problems facing African American smokers. The programs may well provide policy models for other […]

Letters

LettersDear Editor, I work for the North Carolina Health Careers Access Program (NC-HCAP) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. NC-HCAP is a program that prepares underrepresented minorities and people from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds to become competitive applicants of undergraduate, graduate and professional schools. Generally, these students are prospective health professionals. The goal […]

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial Data

Connerly Initiative Would Ban Collection of Racial DataProposal is proving divisive among academics, and even past Connerly supportersBy Pamela BurdmanWard Connerly, the regent who brought the affirmative action ban to the University of California, now is taking his campaign for race-blindness a step farther with a controversial new proposal that already is infuriating academics. After […]

Leadership & Policy

Criticism of Howard University Hospital

Criticism of Howard University Hospital Residency Programs Raises QuestionsBy Cheryl D. FieldsWASHINGTONAn unfavorable assessment by the Accrediting Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) of the residency programs at Howard University Hospital has generated a flurry of activity, including a major story in the Washington Post and the subsequent reorganization of the oversight committee that manages […]

Oprah Winfrey Endows NYU Program for African Women

Oprah Winfrey Endows NYU Program for African WomenNEW YORKThe Oprah Winfrey Foundation has awarded a $2.5 million endowment to New York University’s Wagner School of Public Service for the creation of The Oprah Winfrey Scholars Program for African Women. The program, which will allow African women to pursue graduate studies in public policy and management […]

University of Louisville Stakes Black Cancer Reduction Rates on Filling Endowed Chair

University of Louisville Stakes Black Cancer Reduction Rates on Filling Endowed ChairLOUISVILLE, Ky.The University of Louisville will try to recruit a top national researcher for a position created last month to lead efforts to reduce cancer rates among Blacks. The university formed an endowed chair in oncology as part of a public-private partnership to boost […]

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