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Cultural Competence, Equity Practices Key Themes of Campus Prevention Network Summit

Stepping onto Paul Quinn College’s campus for the first time as president in 2007, Dr. Michael J. Sorrell faced a school on the verge of closure. The historically Black college in Dallas held a mere 1% graduation rate and hovered at about a 30% retention rate. This made recruiting high-quality faculty members difficult. Read More

July 19, 2021

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Coping with Mental Health Concerns Amid COVID-19

I currently live with anxiety and depression. I have lived with mental health concerns for over ten years, and I am still ok. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I would not have been able to publicly admit the first line of this article because of feelings of embarrassment and shame. However, by acknowledging my mental health […]

July 19, 2021

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National Community-Based Health Teams Reflect on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

A group of public health researchers across the country recently convened to discuss their work and outreach efforts around the coronavirus pandemic in African American and Latino communities, both rural and urban. It’s no secret that COVID-19 has ravaged low-income communities of color at disproportionate rates. As a result, many public health officials are strategizing […]

July 19, 2021

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Marquette University’s College of Education Receives Grant to Strengthen Behavioral Health Workforce

To meet the growing need for child and adolescent clinical mental health counselors, the United States Department of Health and Human Services gifted $980,000 to Marquette University’s College of Education. Through the funding, 62 students in the Department of Counselor Education and Counseling Psychology will receive internship stipends until 2025 to complete clinical placements in […]

July 19, 2021

Penn State’s College of Nursing Receives Historic $27M Gift

Penn State’s College of Nursing has received a pledged gift of $27.125 million from Ross and Carol Nese, longtime supporters of the college. It is the largest gift ever given to the College of Nursing and the second-largest single commitment to an academic unit in Penn State’s history. In honor of the Neses’ “landmark commitment,” […]

July 19, 2021

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Steve Fund, JED’s Equity in Mental Health Framework Shows Promising Results

Students of color are almost twice as likely to not seek mental health care, compared to White students, according to the Steve Fund, a mental health nonprofit devoted to young people of color, and The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide. That’s why, in 2017, the two nonprofits provided institutions with a set […]

July 19, 2021

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Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange Set To Return to U of Washington Tacoma as Chancellor

Dr. Sheila Edwards Lange is set to become chancellor of the University of Washington (UW) Tacoma on Sept. 16. Her appointment is pending approval by the UW Board of Regents. Currently president of Seattle Central College, Edwards Lange holds previous years of experience at UW, serving as vice president for minority affairs and diversity from […]

July 19, 2021

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‘Influential Yet Unsung’ Civil Rights Pioneer Gloria Richardson Has Died at 99

Gloria Richardson, “an influential yet largely unsung civil rights pioneer,” has died at age 99 in New York City, reports The Associated Press. By organizing the the Cambridge Movement on Maryland’s Eastern Shore in 1962, Richardson became the first woman to lead a prolonged grassroots civil rights movement outside of the Deep South. The movement […]

July 19, 2021

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Six Pennsylvania Universities to Merge Into Two New Institutions

Six state-owned universities in Pennsylvania will merge into two new institutions, reports CBS Philly, following a unanimous vote by the State System of Higher Education’s governing board. Pennsylvania’s Bloomsburg, Mansfield and Lock Haven universities will form one institution. Western Pennsylvania’s California, Clarion and Edinboro universities will form the other. The university system hopes to raise […]

July 19, 2021

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$15M Grant Will Help U of California Recruit and Mentor Diverse Faculty

The University of California (UC) has received a $15 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (PPFP), which “encourages outstanding women and minority Ph.D. recipients to pursue academic careers” at the university. The most-recent funding will go toward expanding the number of PPFP fellowships and establishing a hiring […]

July 19, 2021

Virginia’s Community Colleges System Has a New Goal: Total Equity

Every six years, Virginia’s Community Colleges System (VCCS) sets a new strategic goal for itself. Its latest goal, “Opportunity 2027,” is quite ambitious. Its main objective is that the states’ community colleges “will achieve equity in access, learning outcomes, and success for students from every race, ethnicity, gender, and socioeconomic group.”

July 16, 2021

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National Community-Based Health Teams Reflect on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination Efforts

A group of public health researchers across the country recently convened to discuss their work and outreach efforts around the coronavirus pandemic in African American and Latino communities, both rural and urban.

July 16, 2021

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Class Assignment Transforms Into Book on Unjust City Planning for Texas Grad Student

Southern Methodist University (SMU) graduate student Collin Yarbrough has used Dallas’ Central Expressway all his life. But it wasn’t until an assignment for his engineering class that he began to see the road in a new light.

July 16, 2021

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Association of American Medical Colleges President Urges Members to Require COVID-19 Vaccines

With COVID-19 cases rising in many states and the rapid spread of the Delta variant, Dr. David J. Skorton, president and CEO of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC), is urging all member institutions to require vaccinations for its employees. In a statement, he wrote, “we have tragically lost some health care personnel to […]

July 16, 2021

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Black Female WWII Unit Hopes to Receive Congressional Honor

Maj. Fannie Griffin McClendon and her Army colleagues never dwelled on being the only Black battalion of women to serve in Europe during World War II. They had a job to do. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was credited with solving a growing mail crisis during its stint in England and, upon their return, […]

July 16, 2021

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Mississippi Marker Honors Black Men Killed by KKK During Civil Rights Movement

A new state historical marker honoring two young Black men who were kidnapped and killed by Ku Klux Klansmen 57 years ago was erected in a small Mississippi town last week. In July 1964, investigators found the remains of college student Charles Eddie Moore and lumber mill worker Henry Hezekiah Dee in a backwater of […]

July 16, 2021

Legislators Push for TRIO Program Funding to Assist First-Generation, Low-Income, Veteran Students

U.S. Senators Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Susan Collins (R-ME), and Jon Tester (D-MT) led a bipartisan group of 56 Senators in pushing for continued funding for Federal TRIO Programs in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2022 Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations bill. TRIO programs help to ensure that underserved students have equal access to […]

July 16, 2021

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U.S. Senator Focuses on Workforce Training and Efforts to Help Military Veterans

U.S. Senator Roy Blunt, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies (Labor/HHS), questioned Department of Labor Secretary Marty Walsh about the department’s FY2022 budget. In his opening remarks, Blunt underscored the challenges small businesses are facing due to federal unemployment insurance policies and outlined […]

July 16, 2021

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