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Kudos to tennis superstar extraordinaire Serena Williams for insisting on being heard relative to her recent medical needs. Though she has reached celebrity status and money is no object, she was forced to insist that her medical team listen to her and act accordingly. In 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was quoted as stating, “Of all the […]

March 28, 2018

Vinson Named Provost at Case Western Reserve

Case Western Reserve’s next provost and executive vice president will be Dr. Ben Vinson III, an accomplished historian of Latin America now serving as dean of George Washington University’s Columbian College of Arts & Sciences. “Ben Vinson III will bring an exemplary record of leadership, scholarship and far-sighted vision to his role as our next chief […]

March 28, 2018

Northwestern Teams Up With Apple, Chicago Public Schools On Teacher Learning

Northwestern University, Apple and Chicago Public Schools (CPS) have joined forces to provide professional learning opportunities in coding to Chicago teachers. As part of the collaboration, a Center for Excellence will be established at Lane Tech College Prep High School to introduce high school teachers to Apple’s Everyone Can Code and App Development with Swift curriculum. […]

March 28, 2018

Canadian Experts Say Ibuprofen Could Stall Alzheimer’s

A Vancouver-based research team led by Canada’s most cited neuroscientist, Dr. Patrick McGeer, has successfully carried out studies suggesting that, if started early enough, a daily regimen of the non-prescription NSAID (nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug) ibuprofen can prevent the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. This means that by taking an over-the-counter medication, people can ward off a […]

March 28, 2018

Institute Supports Conscience Rules in Healthcare

First Liberty Institute attorneys today submitted public comments on behalf of several religious ministries in support of new United States Health and Human Services (“HHS”) guidelines that ensure the protection of conscience rights for health care professionals. “Without conscience protections, health care professionals across America risk discrimination for refusing to perform, facilitate, or refer for procedures that […]

March 28, 2018

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Why Take the Risk of Skipping Insurance?

In tiny Marion, North Carolina, the Buchanans decided that $1,800 a month was too much to pay for health insurance, and are going without it for the first time in their lives. In Harahan, one bend of the Mississippi river up from New Orleans, the Owenses looked at their doubling insurance premiums and decided no […]

March 28, 2018

Skipping Insurance

Learning Native Traditions Helps Soldiers Transition

Michael Carroll served 18 months in Iraq for the United States Army. After coming home in 2004, doctors found that he suffered from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Mental health experts say the disorder develops in some people who have experienced a shocking or dangerous event. Such persons may feel frightened even when they are […]

March 28, 2018

Native Traditions Help Transition

Insurance Spurs Increase in Sex-Change Surgery

When Gaines Blasdel decided in 2012 that he wanted surgery so his physical identity would match the male character he’d long had in his head, his health insurance wouldn’t cover it — not even student coverage at Hampshire College, which he admits with a laugh is the “social justice warrior capital of the world.” Blasdel […]

March 28, 2018

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Mental Health Experts Condemn Transgender Ban

On Friday night, President Trump announced that he would once again attempt to ban transgender people from serving in the military, based on recommendations that their health concerns undermine military readiness. Since then, the nation’s two biggest mental health organizations have come forward to condemn that decision. The American Psychiatric Association responded Saturday with a statement from APA CEO […]

March 28, 2018

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Kids With Autism Less Likely to Be Vaccinated

Doctors say that there is no scientific evidence suggesting a link between vaccines that infants and young children receive in the first few years of life and the risk of autism, but that has not stopped parents from questioning the connection — and in some cases, forgoing vaccinations for their kids. In the latest study published in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers led […]

March 28, 2018

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The Politics of Mental Health

This year marks my 15th year as a professor of political science. Over that time, I’ve witnessed tremendous changes. Perhaps the most dramatic change has been the marked increase in students facing mental health challenges.

March 27, 2018

Study Reports Wide Gender Disparity Among MSI Presidents

A new report from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions explores the dearth of women in presidential positions at Minority Serving Institutions. At 650 such schools, less than 12 percent of presidents are women.

March 27, 2018

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Rankins Is First Black Named To Top Mississippi Higher Ed Post

Among the numerous African-American “firsts” who symbolize racial progress in their fields, Dr. Alfred Rankins is likely to stand out. He is the first African-American to become commissioner of higher education in Mississippi.

March 27, 2018

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University of Nevada Lists 104 Acres For Sale in Reno

RENO, Nev. — The University of Nevada, Reno is selling 104 acres of farmland in east Reno. The Reno Gazette-Journal reports the university is requesting purchase proposals with the minimum bid set at $20 million for the parcel at Mill Street and McCarran Boulevard. The land is a section of the university’s 915-acre Main Station […]

March 27, 2018

Ex-UofA Coach Accused of Assaulting Athlete To Go On Trial This Week

TUCSON, Ariz. — A former University of Arizona assistant track and field coach is scheduled to go on trial this week in a Tucson court. Craig Carter was arrested in May 2015 on domestic violence charges involving a female student-athlete. He’s accused of choking the woman and threatening her with a box cutter and is […]

March 27, 2018

Post-Nassar Sex-Assault Probe Snares Michigan State Official

EAST LANSING, Mich. – A sexual abuse scandal at Michigan State University widened Tuesday as authorities charged a medical school official with failing to keep former sports doctor Larry Nassar in line and accused him of groping female students and storing nude student selfies on his campus computer. William Strampel, 70, is the first person […]

March 27, 2018

Report on For-Profits

Today, American college graduates collectively owe a staggering $1.3 trillion in student debt — the second highest debt category in the country, following mortgage debt and outpacing automobile loans and credit card debt. Over a tenth of graduates ultimately default on their loans. And, according to a recent report from Brookings Institution, for-profit colleges — a controversial sector of the higher […]

March 27, 2018

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Sound-Alike Charity Names Cause Confusion

Last week, four people were indicted for raising money—allegedly for veterans—through two imaginary organizations called the Wounded Warrior Fund and the Wounded Warrior Foundation. Setting aside our despair about the continuing use of veterans in these kinds of abhorrent scams, what interests us about this case is the names that were chosen. Although the term “wounded warrior” […]

March 27, 2018

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