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Leadership & Policy
ACLU Accuses Calif. Instructor of Religion Lessons
An instructor at a public community college in Fresno has been presenting his religious views on homosexuality, abortion and global warming as fact to students in an introductory health science class, the American Civil Liberties Union alleged Monday.
February 9, 2010
MSIs
Obama’s First Year: Many Ideas, Some Achievements
For many higher education leaders, President Barack Obama’s first year presented a watershed moment to outline new goals and raise the visibility of postsecondary issues. Now, however, the task is to get more of these ideas out of the proposal stage and into law.
February 9, 2010
State of Union
Health
Grants And Gifts – Feb 4, 2010 Issue
The CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK, COLLEGE OF STATEN ISLAND professors Dr. Maria Knikou and Dr. Zaghloul Ahmed received grants totaling $1.7 MILLION for spinal cord injury research from the New York State Department of Health, Wadsworth Center for Spinal Injury Research Board. Knikou was awarded $1.4 million for research on the neural mechanisms underlying […]
February 3, 2010
Students
Health Care Debate Carries Implications for College Students
While pundits in Washington, D.C., assess the effect of the Massachusetts Senate outcome on the future of health care reform, college leaders also are focusing on another stumbling block to final action: how the government will treat health plans for 3 million college students.
January 24, 2010
Health Care
Health
Lastword: Learning to Celebrate and Cope With Professional Success, Workplace Challenges
ave you had your mental health “tune-up” today? It’s not such a strange question when you think about stress levels brimming over and the frenetic pace of our professional pursuits in these tumultuous economic times.
January 20, 2010
HBCUs
Grants And Gifts
The Danforth Foundation has awarded WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (ST. LOUIS) $30 MILLION to establish the John C. Danforth Center on Religion & Politics. The center will convene public conferences and lectures to address local, state and national issues related to religion and politics. NASA has granted FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY $1 MILLION to establish the Minority Innovation […]
January 20, 2010
HBCUs
Washington Update: Congress Clears Education Department Budget With Funding Increases
Minority-serving institutions will benefit from increases and earmarks.
January 20, 2010
HBCUs
U.S. Colleges, Universities Offer Rapid Relief Responses to Haiti
Higher education institutions are raising money and gathering supplies for earthquake-stricken Caribbean island.
January 14, 2010
Latinx
Minority-serving Institutions to Benefit from Education Department Budget Increase
Nearly three months into the federal fiscal year, Congress and President Barack Obama reached an agreement on a 2010 education spending bill that will increase funds for minority-serving institutions and student financial aid with the possibility of more gains ahead.
January 10, 2010
Students
ANTHROPOLOGY : Real Science For Real People
Amy Snipes since she was a little girl in Savannah, Ga., who grew up loving science, cherishing the “well-stocked” chemistry set her mother made sure was at her disposal, realizing that she was part tomboy and part “nerd,” and always asking “why?”
January 6, 2010
Shedra Amy Snipes
Faculty & Staff
NEUROBIOLOGY : Free To Express And Contribute
For Dr. Gonzalo E. Torres, scientific research — and academia in general — is about the freedom to break away from the herd.
January 6, 2010
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Faculty & Staff
NOTEWORTHY NEWS
Politics as Usual for the Professoriate Career scholars are routinely tapped for high-level policymaking jobs in government. As a child, Harold Koh paid rapt attention to his father’s dual career as a diplomat and professor.
December 23, 2009
Leadership & Policy
Surgeon General: More Minority Doctors Needed
Speaking at a health disparities conference in Atlanta, Dr. Regina Benjamin, the U.S. Surgeon General, called for stepped-up efforts in increasing the number of minority physicians.
December 6, 2009
U.S. Surgeon General Regina Benjamin
African-American
HBCUs Step Up to the HIV Challenge
Impact of HIV on Blacks compels historically Black colleges and universities to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.
November 30, 2009
Howard U. AIDS Ribbon
Faculty & Staff
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Answering the Call
Impact of HIV on Blacks compels HBCUs to develop initiatives to confront the spread of the disease.
November 25, 2009
African-American
Lincoln U. Students Upset over Targeted Fitness Requirement
Students at Lincoln University, a historically Black institution in Pennsylvania, say fitness class requirement should apply to all students rather than to only those considered overweight.
November 22, 2009
Lincoln University graduation
Asian American Pacific Islander
NOTEWORTHY NEWS: Obama Restores Asian American Initiative
Two years after the Bush administration let its authority lapse, President Barack Obama has reinstated the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.
November 11, 2009
Native Americans
Tribal Leaders: ‘We Need to be Respected’
Before the largest gathering of tribal leaders in U.S. history Thursday, President Barack Obama pledged $50 million in funding for tribal colleges and vowed his administration would work to address problems facing Native Americans, from health disparities to economic development.
November 5, 2009
Tribal Nations Conference
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