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Section: Health

Grants & Gifts

The COMMUNITY COLLEGE OF BALTIMORE COUNTY has received a three-year grant totaling more than $745,000 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to make the college’s nursing program available online. CCBC will begin offering this online nursing program in the fall of 2008. EASTERN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY (Va.) has received $399,649 from Higher Education […]

November 28, 2007

Addressing the Mental Health Ailments Facing Black College Students

BALTIMORE If the walls of Cicely Evans’ office could talk, they would tell of the mental health ailments facing Black college students, including domestic violence, depression, anxiety, stress, unresolved issues of homosexuality and thoughts of suicide.

November 28, 2007

Delaware State Shooting Shows Gaps in Campus Violence Prevention Programs

Immediately after the shooting that later claimed the life of Shalita Middleton, 17, Delaware State University officials utilized many of the lessons learned from the Virginia Tech massacre, and responded by quickly locking down the campus and notifying students and staff. But what do campuses do to prevent the violence in the first place?

November 17, 2007

At Germanna CC, Students Nurse Human-patient Simulators

LOCUST GROVE Va. Increasingly, students in the medical field can learn to tend to patients before setting foot in a hospital.

November 15, 2007

From the Classroom to the Boardroom

When Thurgood Marshall College Fund officials discovered that corporations were not recruiting students at Black colleges as aggressively as students enrolled in traditionally White institutions, they sought a solution.

November 14, 2007

Charting the Course

Rutgers’ Office for Diversity and Academic Success in the Sciences provides step-by-step guidance to help aspiring minority physicians fulfill their dream.

November 14, 2007

No Place Like Home

Passed over for the chancellorship at the University of Massachusetts Boston in 2005, Dr. J. Keith Motley is a classic example of “good things come to those who wait.”

November 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 14, 2007

Community Colleges

Community Colleges Are Portals to New Career Paths

In today’s ever-changing business climate, college-educated professionals are increasingly transitioning to new careers with community college degrees and certificates.

November 12, 2007

Report: US Slips in Gender Equality Survey; Muslim Countries at Bottom

NEW YORK The United States slipped in this year’s scorecard measuring equality between women and men while Nordic countries remained at the top of the list and Muslim countries at the bottom.

November 8, 2007

Pitt Gets Grant to Research, Improve Black Health

PITTSBURGH The University of Pittsburgh is getting a $4.8 million grant to create a research center to improve the health of the city’s black population.

November 8, 2007

Bill Introduced to Lower Campus Birth Control Prices

A new bill introduced in the U.S. Congress this week would reduce the cost of birth control for college students and low-income women nationwide.

November 7, 2007

Iowa College Students Protest Cost of Birth Control Pill

DES MOINES, Iowa More than 400 Iowa college students have signed a petition protesting federal legislation that has made getting birth control more expensive.

November 5, 2007

Utah State University Student Group to Approach Regents Over Insurance

LOGAN, Utah Utah State University students will ask the Board of Regents to make health insurance mandatory for everyone enrolled in the state’s public colleges and universities.

November 5, 2007

Gays Fight for University Employer Benefits in Court

LANSING Mich. The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday will begin weighing whether state universities and other public-sector employers can provide health insurance to the partners of gay workers.

November 4, 2007

Study: Kids of Immigration Raid Arrestees Face Mental Problems

GRAND ISLAND, Neb. Amid thousands of children around the country distraught over a parent arrested in immigration raids, federal officials, school officials and advocates for immigrants argued over who was to blame for leading kids to post-traumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety and depression, as a study released last Wednesday found.

November 4, 2007

African-American

Addressing Anxiety, Depression and Suicide Among HBCU Students

In the wake the massacre at Virginia Tech and the recent shooting at Delaware State University, student mental health is becoming increasingly important to colleges and universities nationwide.

November 4, 2007

The Psychological Impact of Academic Probation

UC San Diego researchers are investigating the correlation between physiological distress and poor grades.

October 31, 2007