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Pac-12 Moves to Conference-Only Schedule for Fall Sports
The Pac-12 CEO Group announced that it will schedule conference-only games for the fall season for several Pac-12 sports, including football, men’s and women’s soccer and women’s volleyball. It will also delay the start of mandatory athletic activities. “The health and safety of our student-athletes and all those connected to Pac-12 sports continues to be […]
July 13, 2020
Sports
NESCAC Cancels Sports for Fall 2020
The New England Small College Athletic Conference has canceled its fall sports season. “In keeping with public health guidance, each of our institutions has put in place physical distancing protocols, limits on travel on and off campus, and limits on the size of on-campus gatherings,” said the conference, in a statement. “Consistent with these policies, […]
July 13, 2020
Sports
CIAA Suspends NCAA Competition for Fall 2020
The Central Intercollegiate Athletic Association has suspended all NCAA competition for the fall of 2020 due to ongoing safety concerns associated with COVID-19. The association said several member schools are in states experiencing dramatic increases in new COVID-19 cases. This has led to a pause in phased reopening plans in many of these states and […]
July 13, 2020
Students
Survey: Many Higher Ed Leaders Concerned About Student Compliance With Social Distancing Protocol
Many colleges and universities are concerned about whether students, especially undergraduates, will follow social distancing protocols when institutions reopen in the fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, said a new EAB survey of 70 institutional leaders. “Enforcing social distancing in classrooms, libraries, and other public spaces won’t be easy, but schools know they will have little […]
July 13, 2020
Sports
UT Austin Pitcher Kamron Fields Transfers to HBCU Texas Southern
Inspired by the nationwide anti-racism protests, University of Texas at Austin pitcher Kamron Fields has decided to transfer to the historically Black Texas Southern University. “When I came to campus, my only real goals were to get my degree and put myself in a position to succeed in professional baseball,” Fields tweeted. “With racism, injustice, […]
July 13, 2020
Home
Report Highlights Teacher Recruitment, Diversity Initiatives
To address the ongoing teacher shortages and increase the diversity of the teacher workforce, the state of Mississippi has launched Grow Your Own (GYO) initiatives, according to a New America report.
July 13, 2020
Sports
UAA Nixes Conference-Adopted Schedule
The University Athletic Association has decided to move away from a conference-adopted schedule. “Despite exceptional work over the last several weeks to develop [association]  fall schedules that would provide substantial [association] competition in a manner that assumes no air travel and allows for bus travel only within limited distances and travel times, it has become […]
July 13, 2020
African-American
Edward Waters College to Become a University
The historically Black Edward Waters College in Jacksonville, Florida, is set to become a university after it received more than it expected in state funding, reported The Florida Times-Union. The 2020-2021 state legislative budget allocated an additional $3.5 million to Edward Waters, bringing total funding to $6.4 million. With the enhanced funding, the college will […]
July 13, 2020
Sports
After Black Athletes’ Demands, UT Austin Announces Host of Changes to Enhance Diversity
The University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) on Monday said it will retain its controversial “The Eyes of Texas” school song and the statue of segregationist James Hogg, but it also announced a host of measures aimed at making its campus “more diverse and welcoming” after the institution’s Black athletes campaigned for over a […]
July 13, 2020
Other News
New Hospital Ranking Weighs Commitment to Diversity, Civic Leadership Along With Health Outcomes
A new national hospital ranking that measures more than just patient health outcomes has recognized 10 Arizona facilities. The Lown Institute, a nonprofit organization based in Brookline, Massachusetts, assessed almost 3,300 hospitals nationwide on 42 metrics. Its new methodology, the results of which were released on July 7, recognized civic leadership, value of care and […]
July 13, 2020
Other News
Health Care Providers Support Implicit Bias Training Mandate
LANSING, Mich. (WILX) – Health care workers in Michigan will have to get implicit bias training. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order requiring the training partly because of how COVID-19 is hitting Black communities harder. The training teaches people how to recognize ways they might be biased without knowing it, teaches them ways to […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
Increasing Diversity in Clinical Trials: What Can Doctors, Regulators, and Patients Do?
Many diseases lack effective treatments, and many researchers worldwide are trying to address these unmet needs. Clinical trials form the cornerstone of new drug approvals, and without the volunteers who participate in clinical trials, this process would not be possible. Yet, clinical trials overwhelmingly fail to represent the demographic diversity of the populations that the […]
July 13, 2020
Other News
In College Students, COVID-19 Has Increased Depression Rate and Raised New Barriers to Mental Healthcare
The COVID-19 pandemic is putting significant stress on college students, many of whom are worried about increasing financial pressures caused by the pandemic and the lack of easily accessible mental healthcare. Those are two of the troubling findings of a survey of more than 18,000 college students on 14 campuses, published July 9 by the […]
July 13, 2020
Other News
University Professors Fear Returning to Campus as Coronavirus Cases Surge Nationwide
Laura Crary, an art history professor at a liberal arts college in South Carolina, is anxious to return to the classroom, so much so that she was prescribed anti-anxiety medications for the first time in her life. “I am 62.5 years old, which means I’m four years from full retirement age, or I’d probably retire […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
How Should Minority Mental Health Resources Factor Into a School’s Reopening Plans?
As colleges and universities prepare for the fall semester, they have decisions to make about how to keep students safe during the COVID-19 pandemic. But alongside questions about socially distanced classes and dorms, university leaders are asking themselves about other kinds of safety, particularly how to approach mental health resources for students of color, amid […]
July 13, 2020
Disparities
Meharry Is Enlisting Volunteers for COVID-19 Vaccine Trials, Hildreth Is Ready to Roll Up His Sleeve
When Meharry Medical College begins conducting COVID-19 vaccine trials in a few months, it will face a big challenge: how to inspire trust in the Black community that has reason to mistrust such interventions but stands to benefit the most. It is a big “ask,” acknowledges Dr. James E. K. Hildreth, the president and CEO […]
July 13, 2020
COVID-19
Intellectual Humility: Re-Imagining a Democratic Virtue
The role of educational institutions—as a supplement to media, economic and governmental institutions—is crucial in developing virtues to balance the tension between the intellectual entitlement to have one’s own views respected and the intellectual humility to see those views as fallible, partial, dogmatic, and often unjustified.
July 12, 2020
Veterans
Decorated Veteran and Artist Pass Away at 84
Bob Snead, an art educator and decorated war veteran who told the stories of Black soldiers of the frontier, died last week. He was 84. Snead retired in El Paso, Texas after a 30-year career as a military aviator. He received three Purple Hearts during the Vietnam War, among other military decorations. He starred in […]
July 12, 2020
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