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Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Names Top 100 Minority Associate Degree Producers
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Maya Matthews Minter Phone: 703.385.2411 Email: Maya@DiverseEducation.com Diverse: Issues In Higher Education Names Top 100 Minority Associate Degree Producers FAIRFAX, Va. — In its next edition, November 28, 2019, Diverse: Issues In Higher Education magazine identifies the Top 100 minority associate degree producers. The data, compiled exclusively for Diverse […]
November 19, 2019
Latest News
Study Analyzes Young Americans Views on the Value of Higher Education
Despite strong beliefs in the importance of higher education, almost half of young Americans say a high school diploma can provide adequate preparation for today’s economy, according to a report carried out by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
November 18, 2019
Campus Climate
After a Viral Video, Black Students at American University Struggle With Campus Climate
A viral video of a Black student removed from off-campus university housing prompts difficult conversations about campus climate for Black students at American University.
November 18, 2019
Opinion
Secret Service Highlights Importance of Student Threat Assessment
We cannot prevent every incident through threat assessment, but it is important that we reach students as soon as concerns are identified. We must train key school personnel on identifying behaviors of concern as much as we train on behaviors that should not be of concern.
November 18, 2019
News Roundup
Former Diversity Head Receives $145,000 in Payment from UI
Dr. TaJuan Wilson, the former head of diversity, equity and inclusion at the University of Iowa (UI), has been paid almost $145,000 in salary, moving expenses, technology and “fringe benefits” costs while he looks for another job and works off campus for a “special assignment,” The Gazette reported. The university has not disclosed the location of […]
November 18, 2019
Other News
UC Medical Center Nurses Overwhelmingly Vote to Strike for Second Time in Two Months
Nurses at the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) voted overwhelmingly to strike for the second time in two months during an election held Wednesday. The National Nurses Union (NNU), representing over 2,200 nurses at UCMC, said 92 percent of the nurses voted in favor of the strike. Read More
November 18, 2019
Other News
Idaho University Won’t Accept Medicaid as Health Insurance
An Idaho university has stopped accepting Medicaid as health insurance coverage, forcing full-time students to buy a university-backed plan. Health plans at Brigham Young University-Idaho can be purchased for at least $81 a month for single students and up to $678 a month for a family, officials said. A student form used to opt out […]
November 18, 2019
Other News
Oakland University Awarded $400,000 for Pontiac Health Programs
The Michigan Health Endowment has awarded a two-year, $400,000 grant to the OU/Pontiac Initiative to expand collaborative efforts to promote healthy living in the city, according to the university. The grant will support services that connect community members to non-clinical services relating to healthy eating and active living. The program, entitled “Prescription for a Healthy Pontiac,” […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
Untimely Death of Bernard Tyson Inspires Tributes To A Leader in Healthcare And Corporate Diversity
Tributes continue to pour in for Bernard Tyson, chairman and CEO of Kaiser Permanente, who unexpectedly passed away early Sunday at the age of 60. Tyson ran the nation’s largest nonprofit integrated healthcare provider since 2013 and designed an industry-transforming model of tech innovation, strategic investment and affordable healthcare during a career that spanned three […]
November 18, 2019
Faculty & Staff
UAB Awarded Over $6M in Research Funding
This year, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) faculty, staff and administration were given a total of $602,024,372 in research grants and awards. This is an increase of $75 million or 14.2% in funding over the course of one year. Since 2014-2015, there has been a 34% increase, according to UAB. Over 1,200 UAB […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
Will Term Limits Fix Academic Medicine’s Diversity Problem?
The National Institutes of Health has announced a plan to enforce 12-year term limits for tenured laboratory and branch chiefs; however, such a limit has yet to be enacted in academic medicine. Authors of an article published in the New England Journal of Medicine argue that lack of term limits on leadership positions at academic […]
November 18, 2019
News Roundup
Educators Gather For Summit in Doha, Qatar
Over 2,000 educators will gather in Doha, Qatar this week for the 2019 WISE Summit, titled “UnLearn, ReLearn: What it means to be Human.” The two-day conference, starting Nov. 19, is hosted by the Qatar foundation and will feature plenaries, speakers and panels on topics ranging from youth identity in the Middle East and North […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
Transgender Students Push for More Resources
Students are responsible for many of NYU’s structural changes — it was students who got the school to remove a question about incarceration from the common application, who protested its old dining service provider, Aramark, prior to its transition to Chartwells and who were part of a task force that led to the creation of […]
November 18, 2019
Disparities
UMN Student Group Enters Fight to Combat Racism in Medicine
A group of second-year medical students is trying to improve treatment of patients of color in a historically white healthcare system. The University of Minnesota’s chapter of White Coats for Black Lives was established in 2014 and works to increase diversity and awareness of racism in the medical field. WCBL is especially focused on curriculum, […]
November 18, 2019
Latest News
ASHE Conference Centers the Stories of Marginalized Groups
Nearly 1,700 educators from across the nation convened in Portland for the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of Higher Education.
November 18, 2019
International
New Research Analyzes Growth of International Exchange
New research by The Institute of International Education (IIE) and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational Affairs indicates that the number of international students in the United States continues to rise.
November 17, 2019
News Roundup
Howard University to Receive Capitol Hill Office Items from the Late U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings
U.S. Representative Elijah E. Cummings’ alma mater Howard University will receive items from his Capitol Hill office including photographs, letters and other documents, according to the Associated Press. Prior to his death last month, Cummings was involved in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald J. Trump. Therefore, before the items are donated, they must be […]
November 17, 2019
HBCUs
Students Protest Elimination of Strayhorn’s Position
More than a 100 students at Lemoyne-Owen College (LOC) staged a protest following the firing of Dr. Terrell L. Strayhorn, a popular vice president of student and academic affairs at the historically Black college located in Memphis.
November 17, 2019
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