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COVID-19 Creates Framework for Permanent Campus Culture That Supports Mental Health

“The pain that made you the odd one out is the song that connects you to the world.” That poem — “Eleven,” by Tanya Markul — provides a potent image of the story of mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students have long struggled with mental health issues on campuses, often in shame and secrecy. […]

February 8, 2021

Dori S. Hutchinson

Fighting Against Historic Distrust and Misinformation To Save African American Patients

A few hours after receiving the second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine, Dr. Valerie Montgomery Rice, president of Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM), says she was “feeling great.” Rice, who says she has “a history of participating in clinical trials,” received her first dose of the vaccine on December 18 with CNN anchor Sanjay Gupta […]

February 8, 2021

Dr. Veronica Newton

Tribal Colleges Receive Support to Fight COVID-19

As the COVID-19 pandemic persists, health disparities continue to be revealed and exacerbated. The disproportionate impact is especially prevalent within Native American communities, where the infection rate is 3.5 times higher compared to White populations, according to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Read More

February 8, 2021

Dr. Cheryl Crazy Bull

Former U.S. Surgeon General Discusses His Quest for Health Equity

A two-year-old David Satcher laid gravely ill with whooping cough and pneumonia. He should have been in a hospital, but he was born in Anniston, Alabama, in 1941. There, like elsewhere across the Deep South, hospitals didn’t admit Black people. It was a pernicious practice of the day that also characterized much of the nation’s […]

February 8, 2021

My Quest for Health Equity

Why Are Economics Departments Failing to Recruit Black Economists?

As universities grow more diverse, economics departments continue to lag behind, especially when it comes to training and hiring Black economists.

February 8, 2021

A GAO Report Prompts Scrutiny of For-profit College Conversions

The trend of for-profit colleges converting to nonprofits has been in the spotlight recently after a January report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO).

February 5, 2021

College Board Changing AP Tests to Accommodate for COVID-19 Pandemic

The College Board will be further changing the Advanced Placement (AP) program to be more flexible, EdSurge reported. Last spring, the College Board redesigned the Advanced Placement (AP) program and exams to account for COVID-19 pandemic restrictions, shortening it and making it open book. Students who attend a school in-person may take the paper-and-pencil AP exam with […]

February 5, 2021

ODU Settles with Justice Department on Discrimination and Retaliation Investigation

The Justice Department has settled with Old Dominion University (ODU) to resolve its investigation into a complaint that the school discriminated and retaliated against a graduate student based on disability and her related request for reasonable modifications of policy, according to Justice Department officials. Findings state that the complainant was punished for requesting acknowledgement of […]

February 5, 2021

Leadership & Policy

Dr. Kathryn A. Morris Named St. Lawrence University’s 19th President

Dr. Kathryn A. Morris, provost and vice president for academic affairs at Butler University, will be St. Lawrence University’s 19th president. At Butler, among other things, she led two presidential commissions on diversity and on sexual assault, helped launch a $250 million campaign, improved the school’s academic technology and established its first staff development program. Morris […]

February 5, 2021

Dr. Kathryn A. Morris

Marquette University Receives $31 Million from Alumni, Money to Go Towards Nursing School

Marquette University has received a $31 million donation from alumni couple Darren and Terry Jackson, Forbes reported. The gift will be used to help the school’s College of Nursing reach its goal of preparing 5,000 nurses over the next decade – the school wants 1,000 of the 5,000 to be ethnically and socially diverse. Beginning […]

February 5, 2021

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Famed Attorney Speaks at UK’s Annual Men of Color Symposium

Encouraging individuals to have other people at the table who do not think like themselves and have different lifestyles were some of the points attorney Ben Crump made as the keynote speaker at the second annual University of Kentucky’s Men of Color Symposium on Friday.

February 5, 2021

COVID-19 Creates Framework for Permanent Campus Culture That Supports Mental Health

Staggering loss of life, lingering effects of illness and treatment, economic instability and suffering, academic and vocational disruptions, political strife and racial disparities have become the accompanying melodies of the COVID-19 chorus.

February 5, 2021

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Former U.S. Surgeon General Discusses His Quest for Health Equity

At 79, Dr. David Satcher is one of the nation’s preeminent physicians, a respected civil rights leader and scholar, and a pioneering public health administrator. He is also the author of a new book.

February 5, 2021

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Bellarmine University Receives $390,000 from Department of Education

To further ease the higher education transition process for veteran students, Bellarmine University received $390,000 from the U.S. Department of Education. Under the three-year grant, the university plans to establish the Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success. Beyond offering mentorship, advising and orientation, the center will also provide training for faculty and staff to […]

February 5, 2021

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin Removes Hundreds of Pentagon Advisory Board Appointees

Anthony Tata, former Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, is among many Pentagon advisory board appointees who have been removed under newly-nominated Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin’s jurisdiction, Reuters reported. Tata, who previously referred to President Barack Obama as a “terrorist leader,” was nominated as a member of the Defense Policy Board Jan. 19. Across […]

February 5, 2021

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King Abdullah of Jordan Establishes RJAF Technical University College for Aviation Sciences

As an extension of the King Hussein Air College, King Abdullah of Jordan announced the establishment of the RJAF Technical University College for Aviation Sciences, according to Royal Central. Beginning in 2015, King Hussein Air College has offered bachelor’s degrees in the areas of navigation, aviation and air traffic control. This year, the school plans […]

February 5, 2021

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Report Looks to Improve Experiences of Military Families

New research, funded by the Office of Military Community and Family Policy in the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD), analysed the experiences and needs of military families. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine’s report, “Strengthening the Military Family Readiness System for a Changing American Society” provided recommendation on ways to address challenges faced […]

February 5, 2021

RAMON GUERRA

RAMON GUERRA has been appointed one of two faculty fellows for the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Nebraska Omaha, where he will focus on diversity, equity, access and inclusion. An associate professor of English at the university, Guerra holds a bachelor’s in English and history, as well as a master’s and Ph.D. in English and ethnic studies, all from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln.

February 5, 2021