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Report: New Mexico Public College Enrollment Dropping Fast

SANTA FE, N.M. – A recent decline in enrollment at New Mexico public colleges outpaced nearly every state in the nation. An association of state higher education agencies says enrollment dropped by nearly 5 percent at New Mexico public colleges for the school year that ended in June 2017. Statistics compiled by State Higher Education […]

April 25, 2018

Keep Fighting

The Trump Administration has found yet another way to undermine the Affordable Care Act and the individual health insurance market. Lucky for Washington consumers, Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler has their backs. Kreidler is protecting consumers against the Trump Administration’s ill-conceived attempt to allow Americans to sidestep the requirements of the ACA and sign up for […]

April 25, 2018

Health Insurance

New Alzheimer’s Research Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis

A new definition of Alzheimer’s disease could help more people be diagnosed earlier. Doctors have proposed basing the diagnosis on signs such as brain changes, rather than symptoms such as memory loss. Currently, health care providers test for the disease indirectly by looking at a person’s medical history and running basic lab work and scans. Recently published […]

April 25, 2018

Nurses of Color Organization Focuses on Care

Susan Hames, a Sister of St. Joseph of Corondelet (CSJ), claimed that “My work is loving the world.” The CSJ ideology is the foundation of what makes up the St. Catherine University nursing program. Selflessness, love, and leadership are the qualities that we produce in our nurses. This is even more the case with St. […]

April 25, 2018

Nurses of Color

Conference Will Address Black Disparities

Improving health outcomes in the African American Community, that’s the goal of a first-of-its-kind conference next Saturday at U-B’s Medical School. The goal is to find solutions for some of the issues affecting our health, including housing, education, and employment. Experts from all over the country will be in town to start drafting community solutions […]

April 25, 2018

Black Moms, Black Babies at High Risk

From grassroots organizations working directly with moms to large insurers, health advocates remain increasingly concerned that black mothers and babies continue to die at higher rates than white mothers and babies. “We know black moms and black babies die more often than other folks,” said Toni Hill, founding director of the Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project, […]

April 25, 2018

Black Moms Babies

Trump Wants to Roll Back Transgender, Native Protections

The Trump administration has plans to reverse Obama-era health care rules that currently protect transgender individuals from discrimination and decades-old exemptions that shelter Native Americans from certain burdensome federal health requirements. Why it matters: These health moves would target two of the nation’s most underrepresented and vulnerable communities. The administration is planning to end a rule […]

April 25, 2018

Roll Back Transgender Protections

U.S. Spending on Medicines Rose Less Than 1% Last Year

Amid national turmoil over rising drug costs, a new report finds that spending on prescription medicines in the U.S. last year grew a modest 0.6 percent, to $324 billion, after accounting for rebates and discounts that are paid by drug makers. And real net per-capita spending fell by 2.2 percent, when adjusted for those allowances, […]

April 25, 2018

Suit Accuses Faculty of Honoring Racist Staffing Demands

ZEELAND, Mich. — A health care center in western Michigan is accused of agreeing to requests by patients for white-only caregivers. Six black certified nursing assistants filed a lawsuit April 11 against Providence Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center, where they all work or formerly worked. The Zeeland facility offers memory care, rehabilitation, retirement and assisted living […]

April 25, 2018

Racist Staffing Demands

Increasing Role Models, Fostering Community for Women in STEM

A mentoring program created by women engineering students at Georgia Institute of Technology to train and empower the next generation of girls in science, technology, engineering and mathematics is bearing fruit.

April 24, 2018

University of Richmond Using Goats for Landscape Management

RICHMOND, Va. — The University of Richmond is planning to use a herd of goats as part of a landscape management project. The university said in a news release Monday that the goats will help clear invasive species from part of the campus as part of an effort to create an “eco-corridor.” They will reside […]

April 24, 2018

Jill Biden to Deliver Commencement Speech at Alabama College

MOBILE, Ala. — Dr. Jill Biden will deliver the commencement speech at a community college in Alabama. News outlets report the wife of former Vice President Joe Biden will deliver the commencement speech at Bishop State Community College on May 10. The Mobile school says Biden and former President Barack Obama led the first-ever White […]

April 24, 2018

Leadership & Policy

Mount Holyoke College Names New President

SOUTH HADLEY, Mass. — After nearly two years as interim president of Mount Holyoke College, Sonya Stephens can remove the word “interim” from her title. Trustees at the women’s college in South Hadley on Monday named Stephens the school’s 19th permanent president. The school undertook a national search for a new leader, but trustees Chairwoman […]

April 24, 2018

Black Lives Continually Demeaned, Devalued, Dehumanized

Walking while Black. Sitting in a public space while Black. Asking for help while Black. Merely existing while Black. The cold, hard truth is that to be Black in America is to frequently endure an ongoing state of assaults and insults.

April 24, 2018

About Liberty

Are you feeling good today? Let’s put a stop to that. Alec MacGillis, in a piece for the New York Times and ProPublica, notes that Liberty University is second only to the University of Phoenix when it comes to offering online education and it’s a “billion-dollar empire” for the evangelical school. The real driver of […]

April 24, 2018

Guide Will Help Train Social Workers on Military Families’ Needs

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) and the Cohen Veterans Network (CVN), a national not-for-profit philanthropic organization dedicated to improving the mental health care of veterans, have jointly published the Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Military Social Work for social work programs and educators. This comprehensive curricular guide will help educators prepare social workers […]

April 24, 2018

Veterans Invited to Shape Voc Rehab Policies

The Department of Veterans Affairs announced an upcoming opportunity for members of the public to participate in an upcoming Advisory Committee meeting about VA Vocational Rehabilitation policy. VA has at least 28 VA advisory committees including 17 that are established by statute. Each year these committees meet to discuss various issues related to the topic […]

April 24, 2018

University Opens Veteran Resource Center

VALDOSTA — Valdosta State University is continuing to serve and support student veterans through the creation of the Veteran Resource Center. The goal of the Veteran Resource Center is to provide student veterans and military-related students with the resources, support, and advocacy needed to succeed in higher education and after graduation. Read More

April 24, 2018

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