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Former Tennessee Titans Star Eddie George to Be Tennessee State Head Football Coach
Former Tennessee Titans star Eddie George has been named Tennessee State’s head football coach, ESPN reported. George, 47, starred as a running back for the Tennessee Titans from 1996 to 2003. George does not have much coaching experience but he has served as a mentor to multiple Titans players, particularly Derrick Henry. George won the […]
April 13, 2021
News Roundup
Lisa Howie Appointed First Chief Investment Officer at Smith College
Lisa Howie has been appointed Smith College’s first chief investment officer. Howie is currently a director in the Yale University Investments Office. There, she is responsible for managing the school’s foreign public and private equity portfolios. Howie holds an undergraduate degree in molecular biophysics and biochemistry and a master’s in business administration from Yale. She is […]
April 13, 2021
African-American
Scholars Wonder at the Trajectory of Expanding Social Justice Programs
George Floyd was killed by police a few miles from Dr. Valerie Chepp’s house. And as her students went out into the streets to protest this past summer, she completely redesigned her senior capstone course for the fall. Chepp is the social justice program director for Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota, and through the program, she felt like she had the opportunity to address the questions student activists were asking themselves while equipping them with applicable skills for their community organizing.
April 13, 2021
STEM
Miami-Dade College Partners With Correlation One and SoftBank to Meet Data Science Industry Needs
In an effort to address skills and opportunity gaps within the workforce, technology company Correlation One established Data Science For All/Empowerment (DS4A)—a program that offers free data analytics training, networking and career coaching to individuals from underrepresented backgrounds. The first cohort consisting of 500 people was launched last year. Now however, to meet their goal of training at least 10,000 people over the next three years, Correlation One collaborated with SoftBank and Miami-Dade College (MDC).
April 12, 2021
Asian American Pacific Islander
Do People Really Think Harvard Admissions Discriminates Against Asians?
Harvard’s admissions process is based on a holistic sense of the applicant, not just grades and test scores. It’s a lot like other schools’ methods where grades and test scores and race are just one factor. It’s a method that has stood up to court challenges for years.
April 12, 2021
Opinion
What Does an Anti-Racist College Admissions Process Look Like?
As our country confronts how racism affects so many other aspects of our lives, college admissions has some soul searching to do as well. The reality is that the process is rife with unintentional bias, and higher education is reckoning with its history as an institution originally designed by, and for, America’s white male elite. Many widely used practices, such as requiring standardized test scores, are being reevaluated or even scrapped altogether.
April 12, 2021
Other News
Hansen Named Dean of the College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions
BROOKINGS – Dan Hansen has been chosen as the dean of South Dakota State University’s College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, SDSU Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs Dennis Hedge announced Thursday. The announcement comes after a national search. Hansen was the college’s interim dean since June 2020 after Jane Mort announced she […]
April 12, 2021
Other News
There Are Potential Solutions to Address Wisconsin’s Expected Health Care Worker Shortage. None Are Foolproof
There are a number of proposed courses of action for the “Silver Tsunami,” the expected surge from an aging U.S. population that will likely strain the U.S. health care system in a way similar to the COVID-19 pandemic but over a longer period of time. The “Wisconsin 2020 Health Care Workforce Report” from the Wisconsin […]
April 12, 2021
Other News
Glenville State College Investing in Health Sciences
Glenville State College is aiming to tackle the need for qualified health sciences professionals in the Mountain State with a number of ongoing and planned programs. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, jobs in healthcare related occupations are projected to grow 15% from 2019 to 2029. That rate is much faster than the […]
April 12, 2021
Disparities
‘Getting a Clearer Picture’: Black Americans on the Factors That Overcame Their Vaccine Hesitancy
Richard J. Sylvia Jr. did not get an annual flu shot, so he wondered, why take the coronavirus vaccination? He understood Covid-19 was far more contagious and deadly, but as someone who had worked at a data center in a health clinic, he also knew that clinical trials for vaccines always took longer than the […]
April 12, 2021
Social Justice
Law Schools Respond to the Movement for Social Justice
The resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement, the violent death of George Floyd and the global protests that ensued have triggered a reckoning in many institutional spaces, including American law schools. Concerned law professors and deans have examined their courses and curricula to determine what changes need to be made to address issues of racism and bias in the United States.
April 12, 2021
Disparities
UI Alum, Public Health Director Discusses Ways to Address Health Disparities
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS URBANA-CHAMPAIGN (WCIA) — UI students in the College of Applied Health Sciences had an opportunity to hear a public health services director speak about health disparities in COVID-19 treatments. Dr. Travis Gayles is the Medical Director and Chief of Public Health Services for Montgomery County, Maryland. He spoke with UI students Wednesday […]
April 12, 2021
Other News
Two Minnesota Colleges Will Not Require COVID Vaccinations This Fall, But It Could Change
By the end of the month, every state will open up COVID vaccinations to anyone 16 and older. With the vaccine age requirements widened, and close living corridors, some colleges are requiring a COVID-19 vaccination for students wanting to return to campus this fall. Duke University is the latest school to require proof of vaccination. The […]
April 12, 2021
News Roundup
UW-Madison Appoints DeVon Wilson to Newly-Created Associate Dean for DEI Position
DeVon Wilson has been appointed associate dean for diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Letters and Science (L&S). It’s a newly-created position viewed as a “top administrative priority” by Dr. Eric Wilcots, dean of L&S. Wilson is currently the L&S assistant dean as well as diversity coordinator and director for […]
April 12, 2021
News Roundup
Eddie Monteiro Named Senior Vice President and COO at ETS
Eddie Monteiro has been named senior vice president and chief operating officer of Educational Testing Service (ETS), the organization announced on Monday. In his new role, Monteiro will manage the areas of student and teacher assessments, technology and customer operations. Most recently, Monteiro worked as senior vice president of global business and technology services at […]
April 12, 2021
News Roundup
Kentucky’s Centre College Promotes Dr. Andrea Abrams to VP for DEI
Centre College has promoted Dr. Andrea Abrams to vice president for diversity, inclusion and equity, recognizing “the momentous work that Andrea has led at Centre and the importance of our chief diversity officer as a senior leader in the College’s administration.” Abrams has been serving as the college’s chief diversity officer since 2018. At the […]
April 12, 2021
Other News
US Colleges Divided Over Requiring Student Vaccinations
U.S. colleges hoping for a return to normalcy next fall are weighing how far they should go in urging students to get the COVID-19 vaccine, including whether they should — or legally can — require it. Universities including Rutgers, Brown, Cornell and Northeastern recently told students they must get vaccinated before returning to campus next […]
April 12, 2021
News Roundup
Bowling Green State Expels Fraternity Following Student Death From Hazing
Ohio’s Bowling Green State University has permanently expelled its Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity a month after a 20-year-old student died following a hazing ritual in which he was allegedly forced to drink a handle of whiskey, reports The New York Daily News. Last week, a coroner ruled “fatal ethanol intoxication” from a “college fraternity induction […]
April 12, 2021
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