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Judge Mostly Dismisses George Washington U’s Lawsuit Against its Hospital Partner
A D.C. Superior Court judge has partially dismissed a lawsuit George Washington University filed against Universal Health Services Inc., its corporate partner at GWU Hospital in Foggy Bottom, alleging UHS inappropriately diverted $100 million from the hospital to pay itself. The suit, filed in December by GWU and affiliated physician group GW Medical Faculty Associates, alleged that […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Public Health, Medical Professionals Support Protests, Highlight Health Inequities in Letter
Public health experts and health care providers say a recent wave of protests and unrest across the United States is a response to the kinds of inequities they see in their jobs on a daily basis. More than 1,000 physicians, professors, public health experts and students studying medicine or public health, including some from the […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Kinsey Institute and The Trevor Project Establish New Research Partnership on LGBTQ Mental Health
The critical need for research on LGBTQ youth mental health and suicide prevention — made even more critical by the COVID-19 pandemic — has led to a new partnership between the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University, the premier research institute on human sexuality and relationships, and The Trevor Project, the world’s largest suicide prevention and crisis […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Health Experts Weigh in on Best Practices as Athletes Return to College Campuses for Workouts
College campuses are beginning to reawaken. They did last week and this week, and more will be apparent in coming weeks. Some collegiate athletes, many of whom have been home for two-plus months due to COVID-19, are beginning to return to school for voluntary workouts. The NCAA, in late May, approved the resumption of voluntary […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
Colleges Debate Whether to Detail Positive COVID-19 Tests for Student-Athletes
Over the past two weeks, as college athletes have returned to campuses to work out and prepare for sports later this year, a handful of them have tested positive for the coronavirus. Arkansas State. Houston. Boise State. Iowa State. Oklahoma State. More than a dozen schools in all. Just how many positive tests isn’t known, however, […]
June 15, 2020
Other News
College Graduates Question Universities’ Commitment to Mental Health
The coronavirus pandemic has drawn renewed attention to mental health problems on college campuses and to the services institutions are providing to address the soaring rates of anxiety and depression among students. Now, a new survey suggests that more attention to mental health resources by American colleges is sorely needed, at least in the opinion […]
June 15, 2020
Students
$5 Million Aid Fund for Chicago’s Undocumented Immigrants, College Students
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot this week announced a $5 million fund that will distribute cash assistance to the city’s 300,000 undocumented immigrants, including college students and others blocked from receiving federal COVID-19 emergency aid. “The Chicago Resiliency Fund is going to help ensure that our undocumented residents, students, and others excluded from federal aid don’t […]
June 12, 2020
Students
Universities Plan Fall Initiatives to Address Systemic Racism and Police Brutality
As protests continue across the nation after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans at the hands of police officers, universities are analyzing their own biases and implementing initiatives and conversations on campus for the fall semester to address systemic racism and police brutality.
June 12, 2020
News Roundup
Gallaudet U Suspends Fraternity That Has ‘Become the Face of Systemic Racism’
Gallaudet University has suspended a fraternity that has “become the face of systemic racism” in the campus community with its social media photographs of members doing what appears to be the Nazi salute and wearing Ku Klux Klan-like robes. News of the suspension of Kappa Gamma, the fraternity in question, broke after Deaf Vee earlier […]
June 12, 2020
News Roundup
Clemson U to Remove Name of Pro-Slavery Political Leader From its Honors College
Clemson University will remove the name of John C. Calhoun, a pro-slavery political leader and a former U.S. vice president, from its Honors College, in a move consistent with a nationwide outcry against racism since the death of George Floyd due to police brutality. Calhoun Honors College, named so since 1982, will now be called […]
June 12, 2020
African-American
Campus Police Are Under Scrutiny for Racial Profiling. It Isn’t the First Time
As protests continue across the U.S. in memory of George Floyd, a Black man in Minnesota who died after an officer pinned his neck to the ground, the country is embarking on a national conversation about racism in policing, causing universities to reflect on their own campus policing practices.
June 12, 2020
News Roundup
Prairie View A&M Mourns Death of Beloved Administrator
Dr. James A. Wilson Jr., who served as associate provost for academic affairs at Prairie View A&M University (PVAMU) for a decade, died suddenly at his Texas home last Wednesday. A Princeton University trained historian, Wilson joined the faculty at PVAMU in 2009 as an associate professor of history and director of the university’s honors […]
June 12, 2020
Students
Education Department Officially Bars Emergency Pandemic Aid to Undocumented Students
The Department of Education on Thursday formally issued a rule, which was earlier a guidance, blocking emergency COVID-19 education aid to undocumented, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) and other college students who aren’t eligible for federal aid. However, the department did add that the rule won’t apply retroactively, that is, it won’t enforce the […]
June 12, 2020
HBCUs
Apple to Expand Recruitment From HBCUs as Part of its Racial Equity and Justice Initiative
Apple Inc. will expand its recruitment efforts at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) as part of its new $100 million Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, reported Forbes. Apple already partners with HBCUs through its HBCU Scholars Program. As part of the Racial Equity and Justice Initiative, the company will also run camps for Black […]
June 12, 2020
COVID-19
In Light of COVID-19, Five Foundations to Increase Support for Higher Education, Other Nonprofits
Recognizing the economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, five foundations have jointly agreed to commit $1.7 billion to the nonprofit sector, including higher education, the arts and humanities, and racial equity and social justice. This financial commitment by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, the John D. & […]
June 12, 2020
Opinion
Pledging to Disrupt Systemic Racism in Higher Education Advocacy
I have sat uncomfortably on raised chairs during enough panels with only other White speakers. I have rolled my eyes at enough invitations to events on education issues for which only White people would share their views. I have witnessed enough higher education researchers and advocates who make their living on equity work perpetuate cycles of mistreatment of graduate students and early-career colleagues.
June 12, 2020
Sports
This Coach Wants the NCAA to Make Election Day a Mandatory Day Off for Athletes
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) should make Election Day a mandatory day off for college athletes, said Georgia Institute of Technology assistant basketball coach Eric Reveno, reported CNN. Reveno’s movement, titled #AllVoteNoPlay, has won the approval of many other coaches and athletes at both the college and professional level, who say the NCAA must […]
June 12, 2020
Academics
After Racist Posts About George Floyd, Some Colleges Expel Students, Professor Resigns
Some universities have taken strict action against students, and in one case, a faculty member, for their racist and offensive comments and videos about George Floyd, a Black man who died last week after a Minneapolis police officer pinned him down with his knee on his neck for approximately nine minutes. These students and faculty […]
June 12, 2020
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