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Faculty & Staff
If You Want to Diversify the Professoriate, Don’t Scare Us Away
If life as a tenure-track professor is so miserable, then why do you continue? As a doctoral candidate working on my dissertation while preparing for the faculty market, I have sought out thought pieces, attended early-career faculty programs, and paid special attention to what academics are saying on Twitter about life on the tenure-track. Does it get better after tenure?
June 25, 2019
News Roundup
Report Examines MSI Study-Abroad Disparities
The Center for Minority Serving Institutions, in partnership with the Council on International Educational Exchange, has published a report highlighting challenges that dissuade students at minority serving institutions from studying abroad, including cost, culture, and curriculum. The report, titled “Diversifying Study Abroad and Expanding Equity for Minority Serving Institutions,” highlights the Frederick Douglass Global Fellowship, […]
June 25, 2019
News Roundup
Alumna Commits $30M to Rutgers for Mental Health Initiative
Rutgers University alumna Marlene Brandt has committed $30 million to the school to launch an initiative that leverages resources to address a serious need for comprehensive mental health services for young people in New Jersey. Adolescents and young adults with behavioral health disorders who are from underrepresented and underserved communities will be particularly welcomed for […]
June 25, 2019
Latest News
Report: An SAT-Only Admissions Process Would Make Colleges Less Diverse
If America’s top 200 colleges admitted applicants based on their SAT scores alone, more than half of the enrolled students would have to leave, and those remaining, with scores higher than 1250, would be less racially diverse and slightly more affluent. That’s a key finding in a report released this week by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce.
June 24, 2019
Disparities
Medical Groups Warn Climate Change Is A ‘Health Emergency’
WASHINGTON (AP) — As Democratic presidential hopefuls prepare for their first 2020 primary debate this week, 74 medical and public health groups aligned on Monday to push for a series of consensus commitments to combat climate change, bluntly defined by the organizations as “a health emergency.” The new climate change agenda released by the groups, […]
June 24, 2019
Nursing
Nurse Who Exposed Problems At State’s Only Public Hospital Will Be N.J.’s Next Top Health Official, Sources Say
New Jersey’s top health official is a registered nurse with vast experience running hospitals, and until recently helped the state’s only public hospital gain its footing after a series of management and fiscal problems triggered its CEO’s ouster, two sources have told NJ Advance Media. Gov. Phil Murphy is expected to announce Judith Persichilli as the next health commissioner […]
June 24, 2019
Disparities
University Studies Cancer Risk And Testing For Black Women
HAMPTON, Va. — Luisel Ricks-Santi keeps the medical family tree of one of the participants in her study taped to the door of her office in her lab at Hampton University. There are four slashes among the women’s siblings, others among her immediate family, and most family members’ symbols are partially colored in. Each partially […]
June 24, 2019
Disparities
What It Means for Health Care to Be a Human Right
More than half the world’s countries have pledged to protect their citizens’ right to health care, through either national laws or international human-rights agreements. The United States is not one of them, although demands for universal health care and Medicare for All have been animating issues in the opening months of the 2020 presidential campaign. According to […]
June 24, 2019
Other News
Drexel Sues To Block Threatened Closure Of Hahnemann University Hospital
Drexel University has filed a lawsuit to block the owner of Hahnemann University Hospital from closing the Center City institution, arguing that the closure would violate Drexel’s academic agreement with Hahnemann to train medical students and residents there and “greatly disrupt the health and medical community in Philadelphia.” The suit, filed Friday in the Philadelphia […]
June 24, 2019
Disparities
Research Brief: Evaluating The Effect Of Spin In Health Care News
Health care news stories represent an important source of information for patients. However, some evidence suggests that many news stories do not adequately explain research results and could mislead readers with spin, defined as “the presentation of information in a particular way, a slant, especially a favorable one.” The danger of spin is that it […]
June 24, 2019
Nursing
University of Missouri System Touts New Health Institute
COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri System officials say a new health institute focused on personalized medicine should bring hope to Missourians suffering from deadly diseases. The official groundbreaking for the $220.8 million NextGen Precision Health Institute was held on Friday at the University of Missouri campus. Read More
June 24, 2019
Students
Legislation Would Cancel All Existing Federal Student Loan Debt
Eliminating tuition and fees at all public four-year colleges and universities and making community colleges, trade schools and apprenticeship programs tuition- and fee-free for all students are highlights of federal legislation introduced Monday by U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Bernie Sanders of Vermont and representatives Pramila Jayapal of Washington and Ilhan Omar of Minnesota. The […]
June 24, 2019
HBCUs
Bennett President Out, Interim In
An interim leader took the reins at Bennett College on Friday after the sudden departure of the president of the small, historically Black women’s school.
June 24, 2019
News Roundup
Vickers Receives 100 Black Men Award for Doctors
Dr. Selwyn Vickers, senior vice president and dean of the University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, has been named the 2019 Dr. James T. Black Award recipient by 100 Black Men of America. Vickers recently accepted the national award, given annually to one physician, at The Chairman’s Awards Luncheon in Las Vegas. “It […]
June 24, 2019
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A Servant Leader
Dr. Henry Tisdale retires from Claflin University after 25 years on the job.
June 24, 2019
Faculty & Staff
Let’s Retire Ageism in Academe
Now in the middle-child position between scores of retiring senior colleagues and recently hired junior faculty members, I mourn the unintentional ways we may be complicit in higher education’s growing problem with ageism.
June 24, 2019
News Roundup
George Mason Appoints Interim President, First Woman
Former Virginia education secretary Anne Holton, a lawyer with Ivy League degrees, will become interim president of George Mason University in August as the school’s current leader prepares to leave for a new position, according to a report in the Washington Post. Dr. Ángel Cabrera, George Mason’s president for the past seven years, will start […]
June 24, 2019
Academics
Online Program Is Helping Military Members And Spouses Get Law Degrees
From Okinawa to Germany and bases in the U.S., military spouses and active-duty troops are attending a law school in upstate New York, thanks to the first online program accredited by the American Bar Association. “You just click on the link,” Veronica Edmonds, wife of an Army Specialist in Vilseck, Germany, said of how she attends class […]
June 23, 2019
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