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UT-Austin Seeks To Diversify STEM Faculty Ranks

AUSTIN, TX — The University of Texas at Austin has joined 19 other universities in a three-year effort to develop and strengthen inclusive recruitment, hiring and retention practices for STEM faculty members, school officials announced on Tuesday. The initiative is part of the Aspire Alliance, co-led by The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) […]

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Increasing Diversity Remains Focus of Office of the Provost

Boston College, led by Vice Provost for Faculties Billy Soo, is working to continue to diversify its faculty population through a variety of programs and initiatives. Forty-two percent of the current faculty is female and 20.4 percent is AHANA+, according to Soo. As with racial diversity, an obstacle to increased gender diversification at BC is […]

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Georgia State University Looks to Improve Faculty Diversity

Georgia State University leaders determined a few years ago they had a problem. While numerous studies found the university has one of the most racially diverse student bodies in the nation, there was not that same level of diversity among its faculty. There weren’t enough women in front of the classroom as well. Read More

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PA’s Largest Community College Eliminates Campus Mental-Health Counseling for 17,000 Students

HARRISBURG — Pennsylvania’s largest community college system has eliminated all on-campus mental-health counseling for its students, Spotlight PA has learned, a move that college health experts called short-sighted and risky at a time of growing need. The Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) told counselors across its five campuses to stop individual and group counseling as […]

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Western Kentucky University Going Tobacco-Free Next Year

Western Kentucky University says it will begin the new year tobacco- and smoke-free. The school is banning tobacco and vaping products beginning Jan. 1 on all properties owned, operated, leased, occupied or controlled by Western. Public health Professor Cecilia Watkins said in a news release that the university works to provide a healthy environment for […]

WSU Sleep Medicine Expert Secures $3.5 Million NIH Grant to Study Improved Sleep Assistance Methods

Sleep-disordered breathing, or SDB, is a common disorder, afflicting at least 25 million adults in the United States. Similarly, more than one-third of adult Americans do not get sufficient sleep. Both conditions contribute to adverse health consequences, including daytime sleepiness and hypertension. Unfortunately, improving outcomes for patients with SDB remains an elusive goal despite the […]

Students Are Taking Stimulants to Help Them Study, But There’s No Evidence They Help

Along with a steeper financial burden and an increasingly competitive academic environment, this year’s incoming freshman university class will likely be confronted with the pressure to take a little pill that some popular culture references say will make you “awesome at everything.” Or they may eschew the temptation and rely on the standard practice of […]

University of Iowa Using $10 Million State Grant to Address Maternal Healthcare Crisis

IOWA CITY, Iowa (KCRG)- Last month, UnityPoint Health – Marshalltown announced its obstetrics and women’s health clinic would be shutting its doors. It’s the latest in a change of closures. “We’ve had 34 hospitals since 2000 close their labor and delivery units,” said Stephen Hunter, University of Iowa Professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Vice-Chair […]

Lehigh University Physician Resigns After Health Center Investigation

Lehigh University said it has accepted the resignation of a former health center interim director, who was suspended amid sexual misconduct allegations after an investigation found a workplace inconsistent with university values and professional expectations. The announcement of Dr. Thomas Novak’s resignation was made in an email to students and staff Friday afternoon. It came […]

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Couple’s $10 Million Gift to University of Michigan Aims to Improve World Health

ANN ARBOR, MI – A couple’s $10 million gift to the University of Michigan will aim to empower faculty and students to seek new ways to address health needs of the disadvantaged. The gift from Tadataka and Leslie Yamada will allow UM to work with global partners to make a greater positive impact on the […]

Sanders Support Ticks Up Among College Students Following Heart Attack

A new weekly poll shows Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) remains the top choice among college students, despite being hospitalized last week due to a heart attack. According to a Chegg-College Pulse poll released on Thursday, 31 percent of Democratic voters attending college or university support Sanders, a 2-point increase from August and a one-point increase from […]

UCF Health Employees Frustrated as Pair of Clinics Post $6.8M Loss and Lack Patients, Supplies

A frustrated physician fired off an email to his supervisors and colleagues at a UCF-operated clinic last year, saying earlier that morning he had tried to inject a patient’s knee with a numbing substance but there was none in the building. “It’s completely unacceptable to not have ample supplies and it’s very poor patient care,” […]

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