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Salem College Receives $5M Gift Toward Health Leadership Transition

Salem College has received a $5 million gift toward its transition to a Health Leadership curriculum. This is the largest donation in the school’s 250-year history. Salem College officials say the gift was designated specifically to boost the school’s new focus on training women for leadership roles in health-related fields. Read More

March 29, 2021

Rutgers University Requires Students to Get COVID-19 Vaccine for Fall On-Campus Classes

Rutgers University students taking on-campus classes in the fall will have to be vaccinated for COVID-19 and faculty and staff are strongly urged to get vaccinated as well, USA Today reported. This is the first mandate of its kind in the U.S. Students may request an exemption for medical or religious reasons. Students enrolled in […]

March 26, 2021

Rutgers University

Dr. Pamela Jeffries Named Dean of Vanderbilt School of Nursing

Dr. Pamela R. Jeffries will become dean of the Vanderbilt University School of Nursing, effective July 1. Jeffries is a professor and dean of the George Washington University School of Nursing. She is a fellow of the American Academy of Nursing, the NLN’s Academy of Nursing Education and the Society of Simulation in Healthcare. In the […]

March 25, 2021

Dr. Pamela Jeffries

African-American

Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana Announce Genetic Counseling and Health Informatics Graduate Programs

Ochsner Health and Xavier University of Louisiana have announced two new graduate degree programs, genetic counseling and health informatics. Xavier will be both the first Louisiana university to offer a genetic counseling training program and the only such program at a historically Black college and university (HBCU). Both programs are currently in development. Xavier will offer classroom instruction […]

March 23, 2021

Xavier University of Louisiana

N.J. Colleges Are Canceling Spring Break, Hope It Will Prevent COVID Spread

A year ago, as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up in the U.S., news reports showed crowds of spring breakers hitting Florida beaches and nightclubs, even as public health experts warned they were risking everyone’s health for a good time. Now, it feels a bit like déjà vu. Earlier this week, photos showed college students […]

March 22, 2021

Dr. Corey Basch

Many N.C. College Students Qualify for COVID-19 Shot April 7

A large share of North Carolina college students will be able to get a COVID-19 vaccine starting April 7. State health officials say those living in fraternity or sorority houses, dorms or apartments will qualify for a shot because they live in a congregate setting. The state Department of Health and Human Services earlier this […]

March 22, 2021

Alabama Expanding Vaccine Eligibility Monday

Starting Monday, March 22, more of us in Alabama will be eligible to get vaccinated for COVID-19. Alabama is now going to include all people in phase 1-C which includes people who are 55 years old and up. State health officials say the move to 1-C will allow between half and two-thirds of all the […]

March 22, 2021

Dr. Scott Harris with the Alabama Department of Public Health

Life Expectancy Down for Those Without a College Degree

Between 1990 and 2018, the U.S. adult life expectancy gap widened between those with and without a college degree but narrowed based on race, according to a study published in the March 16 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Anne Case, Ph.D., and Angus Deaton, Ph.D., both from Princeton University in New […]

March 22, 2021

Life Expectancy Down for Those Without a College Degree

Bakersfield College Launches Mass Vaccination Drive-Thru, 1,000 People Vaccinated

One thousand people got their COVID vaccines at Bakersfield College today. Bakersfield College has made large strides in making the vaccine more accessible to residents on the Eastside. Today, the campus hosted Kern County’s first ever drive-thru mass vaccination clinic. “I’m glad for it to be done, I’ve been in my backyard for a year, […]

March 22, 2021

Bakersfield College

Earlham Students Tackling Indiana’s Maternal Health Crisis With Simulation Project

Indiana’s infant mortality rate is declining but remains higher than the national average. Students at Earlham College in Richmond are working on a simulation program aimed at helping health care providers and women improve those numbers. Indiana’s infant mortality rate of 6.5 per 1,000 births in 2019 was down from 6.8 the year prior. However, […]

March 22, 2021

Earlham College

‘What’s Going to Happen to Me?’ Reflecting on a Pandemic College Year, Through the Words of Student Newspapers

Last year, University of Washington junior Jake Goldstein-Street wrote and published an article for his school newspaper about three students who had been tested for the coronavirus, just a week after the first known case was reported in the state. Nine paragraphs down, he wrote that an assistant professor in the department of laboratory medicine told The Daily that “the risk for transmission […]

March 22, 2021

The Daily Iowan

African-American

NYU and Howard University Nursing Colleges Form Health Equity Partnership

NYU’s Rory Meyers College of Nursing has partnered with Howard University’s College of Nursing and Allied Health Sciences to advance health equity. “One of the many kinds of tactics and thoughts we have had to address those issues has been partnerships with historic Black colleges and universities,” said Rory Meyers Dean Dr. Eileen Sullivan-Marx. People […]

March 22, 2021

Howard University

University of Tenn. to Administer More Than 1,000 Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 Vaccines

The University of Tennessee has administered 5,000 vaccinations to eligible members of the campus community. Read More

March 15, 2021

University of Tennessee

Hampton University Expands COVID Vaccination Accessibility with Mobile Clinic

As the fight to vaccinate communities of color continues, one historically Black university is teaming up with Hampton, Virginia, community leaders and physicians to bring doses to residents’ backyards. Hampton University is allocating $500,000 for a “vaccine-mobile” RV to serve the greater Hampton Roads community, which is 49.3% Black. The RV is slated to serve under-vaccinated […]

March 15, 2021

Should Medical Schools Require A Standardized Test for Admission?

Mollie Marr dreamed of being an actor, a director, and a writer, so she studied theater and psychology in New York City. She had a busy schedule: Her parents could not pay for her university education, so she supported herself with multiple part-time jobs. She worked as an office assistant, a production technician, and a film […]

March 15, 2021

Broadband: Bringing Our Children Out of the Cold

They sat totally engrossed in their laptops. Two little Black girls, unblinking as they followed the directions of their teachers. If it weren’t for the fact that they were bundled in coats and tiny hats, you could have mistaken them for children in a classroom. That, and the fact that they were sitting on the […]

March 15, 2021

A Coalition of Scholars Work Toward Equitable Vaccine Distribution

Before a vaccine for COVID-19 was even produced, Dr. Emily K. Brunson and Dr. Monica Schoch-Spana knew that there would be resistance to vaccinations and barriers to equitable distribution for people of color. Brunson, an associate professor and associate chair of anthropology at Texas State University, studies vaccination decision-making, and Schoch-Spana focuses on community resilience […]

March 15, 2021

Duke Orders Temporary ‘Stay-In-Place’ Restrictions on Campus to Stop Spread of COVID

Duke University is dramatically restricting campus activities for undergraduates, including a shift to almost all remote classes, in an effort to stop COVID-19 cases from spreading. The school announced a stay-in-place order Saturday night. From midnight March 14 until 9 a.m. Sunday, March 21, Duke undergrads who live on campus are ordered to stay in their […]

March 15, 2021

Duke University