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Noir Elite: Promoting Culturally Adapted Fitness

Each week, hundreds of women (and men, too) join fitness duo Valerie Fleurantin and Chaz Sandifer for what has become a movement of sisterhood, healing and community. Together, the duo is Noir Elite Fitness (NEF), a start-up health and wellness powerhouse dedicated to transforming how women – especially Black women – view fitness. Nearly four […]

August 15, 2018

Baylor Participates in Prostate Study

Baylor College of Medicine is among a national network of health care institutions and collaboratives recruiting for what is described as the largest coordinated research study of aggressive prostate cancer in African American men. An estimated 30,000 African American men were diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2016, according to the American Cancer Society’s most recent […]

August 15, 2018

Champion for Health Equity Resigns

City Health Commissioner Mary Bassett is stepping down from her position with the de Blasio administration in favor of an opportunity with Harvard University. Bassett has worked to address Legionnaires’ disease in multiple buildings throughout Queens and recently helped make NYCHA housing smoke-free in July. Her resignation leaves First Deputy Commissioner Oxiris Barbot in charge […]

August 15, 2018

Effort to Diversify Research Raises Thorny Questions

It’s a summer Saturday morning and more than 160 people are packed into a windowless classroom beneath a Lower Manhattan street. Organizers had distributed the ad for the three-hour event just three weeks earlier. The goal was to gather people who identify as “Asian” on the U.S. census—and nearly everyone in the overcapacity room fits […]

August 15, 2018

Insurer Sues Administration Over Obamacare Payments

A small New Mexico health insurer is suing the Trump administration for restarting an Obamacare payment program that will require it to pay out millions of dollars to larger, more established insurers. New Mexico Health Connections, a health insurance co-op, filed suit Monday in the U.S. District Court in Albuquerque on the grounds that the […]

August 15, 2018

Poll: Healthcare No. 1 Issue for Voters

Depending on which news outlet, politician or pundit you ask, American voters will soon participate in the most important midterm election “in many years,” “in our lifetime” or even “in our country’s history.” The stakes of the November 2018 elections are high for many reasons, but no issue is more important to voters than healthcare. […]

August 15, 2018

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Swim Caps’ Flaws Factor in Racial Disparities in Pools

Noelle Singleton challenges any swim-cap maker who claims a swimmer’s hair won’t get wet with their caps to send her one. She’ll post a review on social media of her swimming a 100-meter individual medley in it. Swim caps matter for Singleton, a 30-year-old black swim coach in Georgia with a thick, full-moon-shaped afro. Known […]

August 15, 2018

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A Charter Becomes Alabama County’s First Integrated School

This week, the rural University Charter School in Livingston, Alabama became Sumter County’s first integrated school. Integration within Sumter County did not occur until recently due to events that occurred almost 50 years ago. In 1969, prior to Brown v. Board of Education, White students left the county’s public schools and created their own private […]

August 15, 2018

A Transformative Model for Diversity in Higher Education

The mere mention of the words “affirmative action” in the college admissions process evokes heated debates that often overshadow the true value of diversity that policies are meant to achieve. How can the prioritization of diversity in university settings become a real practice and a unifying force? Israel may have an answer.

August 15, 2018

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The Common Application Launches New Transfer App

A new app designed to aid the transition of transfer students will be used by more than 650 colleges and universities for the 2018-19 academic year. Last year, The Common Application, a non-profit membership organization dedicated to access, equity and integrity in the college admission process, convened a group representing two-year and four-year colleges, student […]

August 15, 2018

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Survey: Virginia Tech Students More Satisfied Than Average

A Gallup survey of Virginia Tech students suggests that they are more likely than the average American college student to thrive during their time on campus in terms of engagement, participation in activities outside the classroom, looking out for each other and well-being in general. The poll of 2,041 sophomore, juniors and seniors last fall […]

August 15, 2018

For Many, HBCU Mergers and Closures Are Not an Option

As colleges and universities celebrate the beginning of another school year filled with promise and anticipation for many administrators, teachers, behind-the-scenes staffers and students, the excitement masks a growing sense of anxiety – especially among historically Black colleges and universities.

August 15, 2018

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Guide Serves as Resource for Prospective Minority Ph.D. Students

A new guide out this week from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) at the University of Pennsylvania is giving students a free, easy-to-use framework to begin their journey to a Ph.D.

August 14, 2018

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Eastern Michigan University Creates New Scholarship Program

Eastern Michigan University is set to implement a new scholarship program with fixed tuition, room and board costs next fall to help incentivize students to graduate within four years.

August 14, 2018

Saint Xavier University Receives First NSF Grant as HSI

Saint Xavier University recently received a $1.46-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), making the award the first NSF grant SXU has received as a Hispanic-serving institution (HSI). The funding is also the largest NSF award in the school’s history. As a participating school in the NSF’s Improving Undergraduate STEM Education: Hispanic-Serving Institutions Program, […]

August 14, 2018

Increasing Diversity on HBCU Campuses Often Leaves Blacks in Minority

In many cases, African-American students have ceased being a majority at HBCUs. At some, they are a small minority among a White majority. Meanwhile, graduate, professional and online programs at HBCUs tend to draw non-Black students at higher rates.

August 14, 2018

Charles Barkley to Receive Media Excellence Award

Charles Barkley, a National Basketball Association (NBA) Hall of Famer and two-time Olympic gold medalist, will receive the 18th Lew Klein Excellence in the Media Award in October to honor his broadcasting achievements. After retiring from the NBA, the 6-feet-6-inches-tall Alabama native shifted his career to the communications field in 2000. He is an analyst […]

August 14, 2018

Democrat Lawmakers Urge Compliance with California Student Loan Act

U.S. Sen. Kamala D. Harris and U.S. Rep. Susan Davis were joined by five other California Democrats in sending a letter Tuesday to a student loan servicing company rejecting its claim that it can’t comply with California’s Student Loan Servicing Act because of federal law. The act – sponsored by Harris when she was the […]

August 14, 2018

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