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‘Shame and Blame’: Are College COVID-19 Cases the Fault of Campuses Full of Reckless Partiers? Experts, Students Say No.

Sweaty, drunken revelers spilled into the street below Addy Miller’s campus-adjacent apartment on the Saturday after North Carolina State University’s first week of classes. Miller, 20, viewed the late-night ruckus from her balcony, and others like it via news articles and viral videos. The locations vary, but the images are the same: throngs of college […]

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Some Central Ohio Colleges Won’t Publicly Report COVID Cases

Several central Ohio colleges and universities are working to share on-campus COVID-19 statistics to keep students, employees and the larger community informed on the number of positive cases they have. But not all of them are publicly reporting those statistics. The Dispatch reached out to Capital University, the Columbus College of Art & Design, Denison […]

On Who Matters – and Who Doesn’t – in Higher Education

As COVID-19 continues to devastate communities across the U.S., colleges and universities must brace for what is sure to be a hectic Autumn semester, including making difficult decisions that may put many lives on the line. In some instances, institutions are committing to online-only classes in order to not risk the spread of the disease. […]

Is it Safe to Go to College? Health Experts Weigh In

For many students, college is a time of firsts. And now colleges and universities are having their own firsts, trying to grapple with reopening and educating while battling Covid-19. School is only just beginning and there are thousands of coronavirus cases linked to colleges in dozens of states. Classes, labs, dorms, parties, sports, arts. New […]

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California Colleges Increase Online Mental Health Services to Serve Expected Student Need

With surveys showing that the pandemic is worsening anxiety and depression among college students, campus counseling centers across California are bracing for an expected sharp rise in the numbers of students seeking mental health services. Like most college and university classes, psychological therapy sessions switched to online — or on telephone — in March. The […]

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ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Along with careful and ambitious plans to reopen for the fall semester amid a pandemic have come pledges from campus leaders to keep all of their students safe. But new guidance from the American College Health Association (ACHA) urges college officials to also protect, support and engage those who are most vulnerable in the campus […]

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ACHA Issues New Guidance on Protecting Vulnerable Populations Amid COVID-19 Pandemic

In a Q&A, Diverse speaks with Dr. Jean Chin, an associate clinical professor of medicine at Augusta University/University of Georgia Medical Partnership, about the American College Health Association’s “Supporting Vulnerable Campus Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic” guidelines.

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OneLegacy Continues Its Commitment to Serve Diverse Donation and Transplantation Communities During National Minority Donor Awareness Month

LOS ANGELES–(BUSINESS WIRE)– As part of its commitment to serve the many diverse communities of Southern California, OneLegacy continues its outreach initiatives during August’s National Minority Donor Awareness Month. People of color make up more than 70% of transplant recipients in the region; but the need for organ donation and transplantation is greater in minority […]

Envision Healthcare Enhances Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Plan

NASHVILLE, Tenn.–Envision Healthcare today releases an enhanced strategy to build and advance a more diverse, equitable and inclusive environment within the national medical group. After a period of reflection following the deaths of Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery and George Floyd, among others, Envision has put forward a course of action to help the medical group […]

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Striking Delays in Autism Dx Among African-American Kids

African-American families with concerns about their children’s development have to surmount many obstacles before reaching an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) diagnosis with providers, a study indicated. Among 584 Black children with ASD, the mean age of diagnosis was 5.4 years, more than 3 years after parents first reported concerns about children’s development, reported John Constantino, […]

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Philly Should Declare Racism a Public Health Crisis — And Then Do Something About it

Crisis is a term we often hear in conversations about things we perceive to be of grave danger to our lives or livelihood. When applied to public health, experts have loosely defined a crisis as an issue that affects large numbers of people, threatens those individuals’ health over the long-term, and requires large-scale solutions to […]

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‘Abysmal, but Fixable:’ Inside Biopharma’s Renewed Push to Up Racial and Gender Representation

The biggest “a-ha!” moment during a recently held roundtable on advancing equality in biopharma may have come by way of the live polling. Only 20% of the 10 or so drugmakers and CROs attending the roundtable said their corporate plans around diversity and inclusion were specific and intentional. Another 44% said they didn’t know if […]

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