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New York Governor Proposes Legislation to End Hunger at all Public State Schools

New York Governor Andrew M. Cuomo will introduce legislation this year that would require all State University and City University of New York system schools to establish food pantries or other “stigma-free” arrangements for food-insecure students to have access to food.

January 3, 2018

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A Seasoned HBCU Leader Takes the Helm of TMCF

Dr. Harry Williams, the new leader of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund is known among peers for his focused, successful, low-key approach to tough challenges.

January 3, 2018

Banned Words

The Washington Post recently reported that, in an unprecedented and dangerous move, the Trump-Pence administration has banned the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) from using seven key words and phrases: “evidence-based,” “science-based,” “transgender,” “fetus,” “vulnerable,” “entitlement,” and “diversity.” As a health care provider committed to fighting health disparities and caring for everyone who […]

January 3, 2018

Recreational Market Clouds Picture for California Medical Marijuana

LOS ANGELES — When Elias Zaldivar was an 18-year-old college freshman and decided he was in the market for marijuana, he knew just how to get it, and it didn’t involve canvassing the corridors of his campus in search of that stoned-out dude who sold pot from his dorm room. Instead, he went straight to […]

January 3, 2018

WHO: Too Much Video Gaming? It’s an Illness

It was only a matter of time before health officials diagnosed video game characters such as Mario and Super Mario as addictive, as the World Health Organization basically will do when it adds “gaming disorder” to its disease list next year. The decision is cause for celebration in mental-health circles, with La Crosse therapist Jeff […]

January 3, 2018

“Food Swamps” Pose Threats to Health

The term “food desert” conjures the image of a forlorn citizen, wandering through a barren landscape for miles and miles (or, by definition, for more than a mile) to reach the nearest fresh-food market. Populating food deserts with grocery stores is a favored cause among nutrition advocates, but the concept became controversial after some recent […]

January 3, 2018

Tax on Medical Devices Resumes

The device industry has long pushed for repeal of the excise tax, recruiting unconventional allies including Democratic lawmakers from states with big industry in Massachusetts and Minnesota. The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed), the industry’s main trade association, has argued the tax hurts research and development and cost 29,000 medtech jobs during the three years […]

January 3, 2018

Top Health Care Stories of 2017

This past year has been chaotic, especially in the world of health care. From multiple attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replace it with the American Health Care Act, to the expanding opioid epidemic, experts from both sides of the political aisle had their opinions on these controversial health topics: Read More

January 3, 2018

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Half of Republicans Believe Fake News on Obamacare

It’s become increasingly apparent that conservatives continue to divorce themselves from objective reality, as a new poll shows that a near majority of Republicans believe President Donald Trump successfully repealed the Affordable Care Act, known as Obamacare. With all the recent talk of how fake news is generated, one formula continues to rein successful: The […]

January 3, 2018

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ProPublica: How Hospitals Fail Black Mothers

NEW YORK — When Dacheca Fleurimond decided to give birth at SUNY Downstate Medical Center earlier this year, her sister tried to talk her out of it. Her sister had recently delivered at a better-rated hospital in Brooklyn’s gentrified Park Slope neighborhood and urged Fleurimond, a 33-year-old home health aide, to do the same. Read […]

January 3, 2018

New Mayor Chosen to Lead Charlottesville

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — The city of Charlottesville, still coping with the aftermath of white nationalist rallies last year, has a new mayor. Nikuyah Walker, an independent who was one of two new council members elected in November, was chosen by her fellow councilors at a meeting Tuesday night. News outlets report Walker will be the […]

January 3, 2018

Black Student Who Helped Desegregate University Dies at 80

RALEIGH, N.C. LeRoy Frasier, who along with his brother and another high school student was among the first African-American undergraduate students to successfully challenge racial segregation at North Carolina’s flagship public university, has died at the age of 80. Family members said Tuesday that Frasier, a long-time English teacher, suffered heart failure and died Dec. […]

January 3, 2018

SHONTAY DELALUE

SHONTAY DELALUE was named vice president for institutional equity and diversity at Brown University. Delalue holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Maine. She earned a Ph.D. in education through a joint program of the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College.

January 3, 2018

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SILVIO EDUARDO VAZQUEZ

SILVIO EDUARDO VAZQUEZ has been appointed chief enrollment management officer at Wheaton College. Vazquez is currently dean of admissions at Westmont College. He graduated from Gordon College with a bachelor’s degree in history and earned an MBA from Boston College. He is a native of Buenos Aires and a first-generation college graduate.

January 3, 2018

ZILLAH M. FLUKER

ZILLAH M. FLUKER has been appointed vice president of institutional advancement at Miles College. Most recently, she served as the vice president of institutional advancement at Alabama State University (ASU). Originally from Zimbabwe, Fluker holds a bachelor’s degree from ASU and a master’s degree and MBA from Purdue University. She is expected to complete her Ph.D. in educational leadership, policy and law from ASU in May 2018.

January 3, 2018

RHONDA SPELLS-FENTRY

RHONDA SPELLS-FENTRY has been named vice president for Enterprise Technology and chief information officer at Prince George’s Community College in Largo, Maryland. Spells-Fentry earned a bachelor’s degree and MBA from the University of Maryland University College, and an Ed.D. in community college leadership from Morgan State University.

January 3, 2018

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MELISSA GONZALEZ

MELISSA GONZALEZ has been appointed interim president of the Southeast College of Houston Community College in Texas. Gonzalez has been serving as vice chancellor and chief of staff to the chancellor of Houston Community College. She holds a bachelor’s degree, an MBA, and a Ph.D. in international business and management from the University of Texas-Pan American in Edinburg.

January 3, 2018

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ALISON CURSEEN

ALISON CURSEEN will join the faculty at Boston College in the fall of 2018, holding a joint appointment in the department of English and the African and African American Diaspora Studies Program. Curseeen is currently a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Princeton University. She is a graduate of Oberlin College in Ohio. She earned an MFA from American University and a Ph.D. from Duke University.

January 3, 2018