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They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…
They’d Liketo Thank the Academy…For 10 years, Dr. Regina M. Benjamin volunteered her services at a rural health clinic she founded in southern Alabama, moonlighting in emergency rooms to support herself and the clinic.Her efforts went largely unheralded until Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Rick Bragg featured her in a 1995 New York Times story, “Angel in […]
Health
University of California To Require Students To Get Health Insurance
University of California To Require Students To Get Health InsuranceSAN FRANCISCO University of California regents voted last month to make insurance a mandatory requirement for students, believed to be the first such requirement by a major U.S. university system. The insurance issue stemmed from concerns about the estimated 40 percent of undergraduates who have inadequate […]
Leadership & Policy
EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean Up
EPA Cracks Down On Campuses to Clean UpLINCOLN UNIVERSITY, Pa.A new kind of SWAT team is surfacing on campuses that can ruin even the toughest college president’s day. The special weapon? Environmental law. The special tactics? Big fines. If the hunt uncovers pollution violations, the price tag can rival the impact of a drug bust, […]
Faculty & Staff
Grants & Awards
Grants & AwardsFlorida Memorial College recently received a $500,000 grant from the Florida Department of State’s Division of Cultural Affairs. The grant was awarded to enhance the future Florida Memorial College Performing Arts Center, specifically Phase I of the project, which includes construction of an orchestra pit and increased seating capacity.Morgan State University has received […]
Faculty & Staff
Public Health Imperative: Prescription For Change
Public Health Imperative: Prescription For ChangeNew public-health schools at Black colleges offer chance to graduate more Black studentsJACKSON, Miss. — Growing up in the Mississippi Delta, Rodrick Jordan saw firsthand how poverty and inadequate health care debilitated and diminished the lives of Black people he knew. That early exposure to deprivation and disease inspired Jordan […]
Sports
BI What’s New
Nearly 450,000 students play college sports each year. But there are fewer than 3,500 allied health-care providers on hand daily to provide for their safety. That’s one allied health-care provider for every 138 collegiate athletes.Now there are new guidelines, established by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, that will help colleges and universities in estimating the […]
Health
Grants & Awards
Grants & AwardsJackson State University has received a $9 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control to research and develop intervention programs for Blacks infected with HIV. The programs will help community-based organizations to use the most recent, scientific research and cultural data to tailor HIV interventions to specific populations at risk.The president of […]
Health
Warning: PCs Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Warning: PCs Can Be Hazardous to Your HealthUnless one happens to drop on your head, personal computers can’t kill you. But they can hurt you pretty badly. In fact, computers can be a pain in the neck, the back, the wrists and the eyes.Every year, nearly 2 million people suffer work-related musculoskeletal disorders, including repetitive […]
Leadership & Policy
BI What’s New
Morgan State University in Baltimore has begun a doctorate/master’s degree program in public health that is designed to produce advanced public-health practitioners with primary prevention competencies that can deal with the health problems faced by urban communities. According to a university prospectus: “A primary objective of the … program in public health is to provide […]
African-American
Washington Briefs
Congress Hears Support For Completion GrantsWASHINGTON — Leaders of the TRIO community made their case for new college completion grants before a congressional committee late last month.The plan, part of President Clinton’s budget, would provide $35 million for such completion grants, which would help students enter and stay in college. Colleges that participate in the […]
Faculty & Staff
Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes
Southern Faculty Upset Over Administrative Salary Hikes BATON ROUGE, La. — The Southern University board’s recent decision to give eight top administrators huge pay hikes has prompted the faculty senate to deliver a “no-confidence” vote and a professor to launch a nine-day hunger strike in protest. Sudhir Trivedi, an associate professor of computer science, pitched […]
Health
Tales of Major Significance
Tales of Major Significance Process doesn’t always make perfect and the final choice is not always the last option.For Jesse Willard Thompkins III, a Dean’s List freshman at Columbia University in New York, the process of choosing a major is just beginning. And so far, it has been a tumultuous one.“It already is very stressful,” […]
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