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Disparities
14 Women of Color Medical Students and Graduates Who Matched Share on Soon Joining the Frontlines Amid COVID-19
This year March 20, 2020, marked the National Resident Matching Program’s annual day where thousands of medical students and graduates (44,959) from across the U.S. and around the world learned the U.S. residency programs that they would have the opportunity to train at for the next three to seven years. However, as the students and graduates would […]
May 11, 2020
Other News
Opinion: UNR School of Medicine’s Dean on the Role a Medical School Plays in a Pandemic
The Washoe County Health District reported its first presumptive positive case of COVID-19 on March 5, 2020. What’s transpired since has presented extraordinary challenges to Northern Nevada, our state and all who live and work here. The University of Nevada Reno, School of Medicine (UNR Med) has a special, perhaps unique, role to play in […]
May 11, 2020
Other News
In Reversal, Arizona Announces ‘Ongoing Partnership’ With University Coronavirus Modeling Experts
The Arizona Department of Health Services said on Thursday that it will have an “ongoing partnership” with the university experts who were producing COVID-19 modeling before being told on Monday by the department to “pause” their work. The abrupt turn comes after pressure from Democratic lawmakers, including U.S. Sen. Kyrsten Sinema, and local and national media attention. […]
May 11, 2020
Other News
University of Michigan Health System Lays Off 1,400 Health Care Workers
Michigan Medicine will lay off or furlough 1,400 health care workers to cope with $230 million in lost revenue during the COVID-19 crisis, the University of Michigan health system said Tuesday. The losses projected through the fiscal year that ends on June 30 are expected to continue into 2021, the health system said in a press […]
May 11, 2020
Disparities
Study Finds Fewer Minority Nurses Come From Michigan Nursing Programs
LANSING — Colleges and university nursing programs in Michigan produce fewer minority graduates than those in many other states, according to a study by the Women’s Institute for Science, Equity and Race. No Michigan programs made the top-50 lists for minority nursing graduates overall or for African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans and Native Americans. Programs […]
May 11, 2020
African-American
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet Reflects on Career Trajectory
Dr. Jericho Brown first learned last week that he had won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry at the very moment that the rest of the world got wind of the exciting news via a virtual announcement.
May 10, 2020
Students
How Universities Plan to Hold Graduation Ceremonies Amid a Pandemic
Over the past few months, universities and colleges around the country have worked towards planning their graduation ceremonies amid a pandemic, attempting to find ways to keep some normalcy intact.Schools can choose to host commencement online, postpone until crowd restrictions are lifted within states or offer both options.
May 10, 2020
COVID-19
Universities Are Freezing Tenure Clocks. What Will That Mean for Junior Faculty of Color?
Over 240 universities are offering junior faculty extensions on their tenure clocks to ease the pressure as the coronavirus upends their research and routines. But for some faculty, gratitude is mixed with concerns about whether tenure track extensions are enough, if they sufficiently account for academia’s disparities or even risk exacerbating them without other supports.
May 9, 2020
COVID-19
UC San Diego to Start Mass Testing of Staff and Students for COVID-19
The University of California San Diego will next week begin mass testing of students, faculty and staff for COVID-19 under a ‘Return to Learn’ program the institution hopes to extend to the fall if it reopens as planned, it said in a statement. CBS 8 called the program the first such plan on campus in […]
May 8, 2020
Community Colleges
Dallas County Community Colleges to Remain Online for Most Classes in the Fall
Colleges in the Dallas County Community College District will remain online for most classes through the fall semester in light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the county body said in a statement. The decision has been taken to “to protect students, faculty and staff,” because if they opened for on-campus instruction, they would have to individually […]
May 8, 2020
News Roundup
Top Higher Ed Groups Create New DACA Resources Website
Several influential higher education groups have created a new website, ‘Remember the Dreamers’, that will provide information and resources for students and institutions on what efforts are being made to help Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, students. Many of these students are also called ‘Dreamers’, after the Development, Relief and Education for Alien […]
May 8, 2020
News Roundup
Historically Black Lincoln University Declares ‘Financial Exigency’
Lincoln University, a historically Black institution in Missouri, has declared ‘financial exigency,’ reported the News Tribune. According to a Forbes article from March, “declaring financial exigency is a doomsday scenario to be used only by institutions facing such imminent and severe financial circumstances that the survival of the institution as a whole is threatened.” Lincoln […]
May 8, 2020
Other News
Veteran Unemployment Up to Nearly 12 Percent Amid Coronavirus Crisis
Veterans unemployment jumped to nearly 12 percent in April as the country’s total jobless rate rose to its highest levels since the Great Depression because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. More than 1 million veterans filed for jobless benefits last month, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. At 11.7 percent, the unemployment rate for veterans was two […]
May 8, 2020
Other News
People Hospitalized for Coronavirus May Not Be Able to Join the Military
If you’ve been hospitalized for coronavirus at some point and want to join the military, you may have to jump through some extra hoops to get there or you might not be able to join at all. The Defense Department released interim guidance yesterday putting people who have had severe COVID-19 on a list of those who […]
May 8, 2020
Other News
Pentagon Lifts Onerous Proof Requirements for Student Military Survivor Benefits
For college students who are the beneficiaries of a parent’s military survivor benefits, the twice-yearly requirement that they verify their enrollment status at a school just got a whole lot easier. The Defense Department announced Wednesday that it will now allow students to “self-certify,” meaning they will not have to order a transcript or get […]
May 8, 2020
Other News
The Marines Wanted a University to Study Co-ed Boot Camp. No One Applied
A planned independent, in-depth assessment of the Marine Corps‘ historically gender-segregated boot camp training model hasn’t started yet — because no one has volunteered to conduct it. The service didn’t receive any applications following its November request for public universities to study the way it trains recruits at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina, Capt. […]
May 8, 2020
HBCUs
Maryland Gov. Vetoes Bill Allotting $577 Million to Four State HBCUs
Maryland’s Republican Gov. Larry Hogan on Thursday vetoed a bill that would have allotted $577 million to the state’s four historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) over the course of 10 years, reported The Washington Post. The passage of the bill would likely have settled a 2006 federal lawsuit. Hogan cited the economic uncertainty created […]
May 7, 2020
COVID-19
U of Tennessee System Plans for In-Person Fall Classes on All Campuses
The University of Tennessee system is planning for in-person classes on all campuses this coming fall amid the coronavirus pandemic, reported WATE. “If the outside conditions change, if local or state governments change directions, then we will have to reevaluate, but we are planning on classes in the fall,” said university president Randy Boyd. He […]
May 7, 2020
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