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Tiktok Is Giving 10 Colleges $10 Million To Boost Minorities in Health Care

If nothing else, 2020 has shown just how important health care workers and public health experts are. So, in an effort to show their support, TikTok is donating $10 million to 10 colleges serving underrepresented students. The video social network website made the announcement Wednesday, saying that each school would receive $1 million to support both undergraduate […]

December 21, 2020

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Hampton University to Give Pay Raises and End-of-Year Bonuses

Hampton University will be giving all faculty and staff a 2% pay raise – effective Jan. 1 – and a $200 end-of-year bonus as a show of gratitude, WAVY reported. Read More

December 14, 2020

Hampton University

University of Arizona to Require Recent Negative COVID-19 Test to Be on Campus in Spring

Due to the increasing surge of state COVID-19 infections, the University of Arizona will require those on campus in the spring to have a negative COVID-19 test within the previous week, AZ Central reported. Read More

December 14, 2020

University of Arizona

U of Minnesota Might Borrow $82M to Cover COVID-19 Budget Deficit

Projecting a $166 million budget deficit brought on by COVID-19, The University of Minnesota might borrow as much as $82 million to cover lost athletic and housing revenue, reports the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Read More

December 14, 2020

Panel Discussion Focuses on Small Businesses and Education Amid COVID-19

The Hill hosted a virtual panel Thursday focused on the ways in which small business owners and educators have been affected and have had to adapt amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Read More

December 14, 2020

Rep. Steve Chabot

Webinar Analyzes Prior-Learning Assessments’ Impact on Adult Student Outcomes

Using firsthand accounts of student experiences and input from higher education leaders, Lumina Foundation’s webinar on Thursday noted the impact of prior-learning assessments (PLA) on adult student outcomes. Read More

December 14, 2020

Dr. Patrick Lane

How Two-Year Colleges Can Mitigate Student Enrollment Declines

As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to affect the higher education sector, concerns arise around enrollment rates. More specifically, at community colleges. Read More

December 14, 2020

How Two-Year Colleges Can Mitigate Student Enrollment Declines

Virtual Panel Urges Student Debt Cancellation, Calling it a Racial Justice Issue Too

Cancelling student debt isn’t just an economic issue but a racial justice one too, argued higher education leaders and policy makers in a Thursday virtual panel hosted by the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL) and the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). Read More

December 14, 2020

Dr. Fenaba Addo

Academia’s Role in Fighting Mental Illness Stigma

Though we are in an era of growing anti-intellectualism, colleges and universities still retain a large amount of influence in educating vast sectors of society and shaping public discourse, and can play a large role in destigmatizing mental illness. Stigma is one of the primary barriers to diagnosis and treatment, and given the prevalence of mental illness across demographic groups, fighting it should be a cause that everyone can get behind.

December 11, 2020

Dr. Noma Anderson Named Dean of Nursing and Health Sciences at UVM

University of Vermont Provost and Senior Vice President Patricia Prelock has announced the appointment of Noma Anderson, PhD, as dean of the College of Nursing and Health Sciences (CNHS). Read More

December 7, 2020

Dr. Noma Anderson

Vermont Colleges Post Some of The Nation’s Lowest COVID-19 Numbers

Vermont colleges sent students home for the fall semester just before Thanksgiving, closing their doors on a bizarre — but largely COVID-19-free — semester. Read More

December 7, 2020

University of Vermont

Dartmouth College Awarded Grant for New COVID Research

Dartmouth College is getting $2.4 million to research how the coronavirus has affected primary health care nationwide. Read More

December 7, 2020

Dartmouth College

University of Minnesota Hosts New Nationwide COVID-19 Initiative to Reach Immigrants And Refugees

In the coming weeks and months, a project at the University of Minnesota will direct a nationwide effort to create and distribute COVID-19 messaging for immigrant and refugee communities. Read More

December 7, 2020

University of Minnesota

SUNY Upstate Medical University Will Partner with Albany International Airport to Test Airport Employees and Travelers for COVID-19

State University of New York Chancellor Jim Malatras announced Sunday a COVID-19 partnership to test airport employees and travelers. Read More

December 7, 2020

SUNY Upstate Medical University

Spring Break Cancellations Spark Mental Health Concerns for College Students

San Diego State University this week became the latest in a string of four-year institutions across the country to cancel spring break because of Covid-19 safety concerns. Read More

December 7, 2020

San Diego State University

Will Biden Add a National Coronavirus Testing Strategy? Experts Hope So

As the coronavirus epidemic worsens, U.S. health experts hope Joe Biden’s administration will put in place something Donald Trump’s has not — a comprehensive national testing strategy. Read More

December 7, 2020

African-American

Georgia’s Black Voters Can Make History Again

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris made a brilliant choice in opening her remarks at the Democratic presidential ticket’s victory celebration with a quote from civil rights icon and former Georgia congressman John Lewis, who wrote before he died, “Democracy is not a state. It is an act.”

December 3, 2020

Nobel Prize Spotlights Sickle Cell’s Disproportionate Impact on African Americans

CRISPR is a new technique that involves cutting out a tiny piece of the mutation or defective gene that causes sickle cell disease in the hopes that the corrected gene will then work to make normal hemoglobin (a protein in red blood cells) instead of the sickle-shaped hemoglobin that gives the disease its name.

December 1, 2020