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Latest News
College Promise Initiatives Encouraged to Incorporate New Strategies
DALLAS — A coalition of nonprofit organizations have partnered in a new effort to call on states, cities and institutions to incorporate evidenced-based strategies into their College Promise initiatives.
April 30, 2018
Students
Report: Focus on Part-Time Students to Close Achievement Gaps
A new report this week from the Education Advisory Board encourages community colleges to increase support for part-time students in order to achieve equity and reduce the nearly 20-percentage-point achievement gap between White and minority students.
April 30, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
The Big Idea
The American health care system is an expensive, sprawling mess. The Republican Party’s brightest idea for how to fix it? Make health insurance worse. Here’s what the GOP has in mind: Weakened protections for people with pre-existing conditions. Skimpier benefits that leave out coverage for important medical needs. Less protection from financial harm due to illness. […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Black in Medicine: The Importance of Representation
In 2016, I went to the emergency room due to my allergies and was told after an X-ray that I would be placed on isolation because of a mass visualized in one of my lungs and because I had taken a trip to Nigeria the previous summer. I had no symptoms, though, so both the […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Latinos with M.S. Struggle with Depression
A new study has found that half of Latino patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) also suffer from depression. In analysis presented at the 70th annual meeting of the American Academy of Neurology (AAN) in Los Angeles, CA, researchers from Mount Sinai Beth Israel reported that depression is more prevalent in minorities with MS and low-income backgrounds. […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Minority Health Disparities Affect Access, Management
Minority health disparities continue to impact several quality metrics, including care access, provider communication, chronic disease management, and mental health treatment, according to a new CMS report. CMS stated that in order to address care disparities, it is necessary to understand where these gaps exist. “Assessing equitability in the delivery of care requires making comparisons of […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Groups Blast Plan for Short-Term Insurance
Democrats and healthcare groups are attacking the Trump administration’s latest healthcare plan as an attempt to undermine the core protections of Obamacare and increase costs for sicker Americans. The Trump administration’s new plan would expand the use of short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans for people who have a lapse in coverage. Currently, if a person […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Black Mamas Matter Highlights Disparities
Black mothers die of issues related to pregnancy or birth at more than three and a half times the rate of white women in New Jersey. The reasons go beyond the usual barriers to healthcare, insurance, or economic support, and also involve the physical stress of experiencing racism on a daily basis. That was the […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Senators Say Trump Censored LGBT Health Sites
Democratic Senators called out the White House for removing LGBT health information from government websites, including from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health in a letter sent April 12. “You have repeatedly broken your campaign promises to support and protect the LGBT community, and this latest assault could compromise the health […]
April 30, 2018
Opinion
Cosby Verdict Historic for Women, People of Color, Diversity
When the right verdict was reached in the Bill Cosby trial, it was truly historic. For women, for people of color, for diversity, for anyone who doubts the system to get it right, this is what justice look likes in a changing America.
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Researchers Seek Marker for Diseases in Diverse Populations
In the emerging world of personalized medicine, researchers are furiously looking for disease markers specific to minority populations, and they have already made some promising discoveries. The clues they are gathering, the scientists said, could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases, such as asthma and heart disease, that disproportionately affect minorities, as […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Report: Harvard Med School Gets a B- for Diversity
White Coats for Black Lives, a group that advocates for racial equality in medicine, gave Harvard Medical School a B- in its first-ever “racial justice” report card, released Wednesday. The report card is meant to evaluate how well medical schools around the country—including Harvard’s—foster racial equality. In rationalizing Harvard’s grade, the organization pointed to minority […]
April 30, 2018
News Roundup
Longtime Costume Designer Leaves University, But Not Theater
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. — Costume designer Marianne Custer has wrapped actors in plastic wrap, cracked open a VCR for costume parts and sewn fake hair into bonnets. Over four decades, Custer has done wonders with fabric, feathers and quick changes that required extremely long zippers. She’s designed from Knoxville to Istanbul in shows from Shakespeare to […]
April 30, 2018
News Roundup
Pizza Hut Museum Opens on Wichita State University Campus
WICHITA, Kan. — The original Pizza Hut building has opened as a museum at Wichita State University. WSU Foundation CEO Elizabeth King told The Wichita Eagle that staff from the school came together “to collaborate and create this fabulous museum that will be curated by the students.” The museum opened last Wednesday on the school’s […]
April 30, 2018
Military
WW II Veteran to Graduate 68 Years After Leaving College
TOLEDO, Ohio — Like so many American soldiers returning home from World War II, Bob Barger started working a new job and going to college. Once he settled into his career and raising a family, finishing school was no longer a priority. Now, 68 years since he last sat in a classroom, Barger is set […]
April 30, 2018
Latinx
Study Tackles Issues of Latino College Access, Completion
A study by UnidosUS in collaboration with the Center for Community Capital at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill highlights challenges of college access, affordability and long-term success for Latino students.
April 30, 2018
Latest News
Diverse Honors Champions at AACC Meeting
Diverse: Issues In Higher Education presented the Diverse Champions Award to Dr. Christine Johnson McPhail and posthumously to Dr. Suanne Roueche at the opening ceremony of the American Association of Community Colleges 98th annual meeting.
April 29, 2018
African-American
Architect of Black Liberation Theology Dies at 79
The Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, the prolific author and founder of Black Liberation Theology whose groundbreaking works inspired a generation of theologians and activists, has died at the age of 79.
April 29, 2018
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