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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
News Roundup
$1 Million Gift to Hawai’i Community College To Support Scholarships, Professional Development
Hawaiʻi Community College will receive a $1 million gift from an anonymous donor, supporting a new scholarship and professional development opportunities. According to the school, 78% of those who graduate from Hawai’i Community College stay and work on the island. “With 97% of our students coming from Hawaiʻi, and 89% of them from Hawaiʻi Island, this gift […]
April 12, 2021
Social Justice
Chief Diversity Officers Play Critical Role in Effecting Lasting Change on Campus
The rise in social activism on campuses — generated by continued anti-Black violence and hate crimes against Asian Americans — has led many colleges and universities to analyze their diversity policies and practices. In many places, the conversation starts with reexamining the role of the chief diversity officer, who is often charged with helping institutions develop “cultural competency and expand the social bandwidth of their respective institutions,” says Elizabeth Moore, interim chief diversity officer at Gallaudet University.
April 9, 2021
Latest News
St. Mary’s College of Maryland Initiative Rethinks a Liberal Arts Education
To better prepare students for the workforce, St. Mary’s College of Maryland sought to redefine a liberal arts education. Through a data analysis of local industry needs and students’ experiences, the Learning Through Experiential and Applied Discovery (LEAD) initiative emerged. Among the initiative’s goals is the incorporation of professional career development skills such as communication, teamwork and project management within the core curriculum and in every discipline at St. Mary’s College.
April 9, 2021
African-American
Central Piedmont Community College and Johnson C. Smith University Partner for Bachelor’s Degree Pathway
Central Piedmont Community College (CPCC) and Johnson C. Smith University (JCSU) are partnering to offer CPCC students a bachelor’s degree pathway, WBTV reported. The program, JCSU Connect, is a 2+2 program, so students will complete an associate degree at CPCC and a bachelor’s at JCSU, the historically Black university located in Charlotte, N.C. The program […]
April 9, 2021
COVID-19
Delaware State University Students Required to be COVID Vaccinated By the Fall to Return for In-Person Instruction
To return for in-person learning, Delaware State University students will have to be vaccinated by the fall, The Philadelphia Tribune reported. Those unvaccinated can continue with hybrid learning. DSU wants all students, faculty and staff fully vaccinated by the fall. DSU will have multiple graduation ceremonies in May, including a ceremony for 2020 graduates. Safety […]
April 9, 2021
African-American
Study: Black Adults Who Attended Racially Balanced Schools Were Worse Off
Black adults who attended racially balanced mixed-race schools ended up finishing fewer years of school and were less likely to graduate than others who attended overwhelmingly white schools or predominantly Black schools, according to four researchers, the The Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. The researchers used data from the National Survey of Black Americans and looked at information […]
April 9, 2021
Opinion
From DEI to JEDI
Is the acronym Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) outdated? After a summer of uprisings for racial justice during a global pandemic, we felt this era required us to lead with Justice and so we renamed our office at the MGH Institute of Health Professions from JEDI, transitioning from DEI, to reflect our paradigm shift in 2020.
April 9, 2021
Other News
The Citadel Takes Part in Three-Day Cybersecurity Competition With Other Military Colleges and Service Academies
For the first time, The Citadel is taking part in a three-day cybersecurity competition April 8 hosted by the National Security Agency (NSA), The Post and Courier reported. The competition, the NSA’s National Cyber Exercise, has U.S. military colleges and service academies compete against each other in cybersecurity simulations. “It involves exercises on forensics, cyber […]
April 9, 2021
Latest News
The People’s Scientist: Dr. Esther Ngumbi Makes Science Accessible
As a child in rural Kenya, Dr. Esther Ngumbi helped her parents farm each day, watching as their crops sprouted from the soil, hopeful and green. But then, “insects would come and go through our crops, and sometimes what insects hadn’t taken away, drought would,” says Ngumbi, now an assistant professor of entomology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. From a young age, Ngumbi wanted to know what the insects were and how farmers could control them. She wanted a career that could help her community grow plentiful food amid challenging circumstances and a changing climate.
April 8, 2021
Faculty & Staff
Report: All Faculty Types Suffer Job Losses in 2020-2021 Academic Year
The 2021 CUPA-HR Faculty in Higher Education Report found that all faculty types suffered job losses during the 2020-21 academic year. In terms of full-time faculty in specific departments, leisure and recreational activities and library science suffered the biggest job loss percentage, the report finds. As for sheer number, business, management and marketing and biological and biomedical sciences lost the most faculty, with a third to almost 50% of institutions reporting cuts in these departments.
April 8, 2021
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