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UI Assistant Professor Martha Carvour Launches Health Equity Projects

Martha Carvour, assistant professor in the department of internal medicine, received funding from the University of Iowa to launch campus and community-wide projects that aim to alleviate inequities in health care. “This is a really critically important time to think about health equity,” Carvour said. “The COVID pandemic has highlighted a lot of long-standing inequities […]

June 28, 2021

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Hope College Gets $7.5M State Grant to Expand COVID Wastewater Testing

After a year of monitoring wastewater for signs of COVID-19 on campus, Hope College is receiving funding from the state to expand its surveillance operation. The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services announced nearly $49 million to support 19 projects that will continue COVID-19 wastewater surveillance and implement COVID-19 variant strain testing. Read More

June 28, 2021

UC San Diego Health Receives $2 Million for Endowed Chair in Head and Neck Surgery

UC San Diego Health has received $2 million from Iris and Matthew Strauss – longtime supporters of cancer research and patient care at Moores Cancer Center – to create the Iris and Matthew Strauss Chancellor’s Endowed Chair in Head and Neck Surgery. Read More

June 28, 2021

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Report Proposes Higher Education COVID-19 Recovery Policies

In a year defined by a deadly pandemic, economic crisis and racial injustice, colleges and universities were forced to reevaluate their practices, structures and delivery models. As the United States transitions to a recovery phase, New America and the State Higher Education Executive Officers (SHEEO) sought to further understand the overall impact of these crises […]

June 28, 2021

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Life Expectancy in Colorado Fell Sharply During the Pandemic, Especially for People of Color

So many Coloradans died of COVID-19 and related causes, including drug overdoses, that life expectancy statistics fell dramatically this past year. The drop was most alarming among communities of color, where enough Hispanic and Black residents died in the pandemic that both groups’ life expectancy statistics fell by about four years. The drop among white […]

June 28, 2021

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State, University of Iowa Launch ‘Center for School Mental Health’

Iowa’s Department of Education announced Wednesday it’s committing $20 million of federal pandemic aid toward a new University of Iowa-based “Center for School Mental Health” that will, among other things, offer teacher training and needs assessments statewide. The new Iowa Center for School Mental Health will work with the state Education Department to expand services […]

June 28, 2021

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Black People Continue to Lag Behind in COVID Vaccinations

Black people in the city of Philadelphia, the nation’s largest predominantly Black county, are lagging far behind white people when it comes to COVID-19 vaccinations, the Washington Post reports. Read More

June 28, 2021

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Tyton Partners Study the Gap Between Dreaming of Equity and Achieving Equity

Tyton Partners have released their annual update for three reports: “Hitting their Stride” “Time for Class”, and “Driving Toward a Degree.” These studies analyze the gap between institutions recognizing the need for equitable changes and the actuality of making those changes. This year, for the first time, the results of all three have been compiled. […]

June 28, 2021

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Rutgers Renames Building to Honor Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor

Rutgers University-New Brunswick’s Board of Governors voted to rename a building on campus in honor of late civil rights activist and minister The Reverend Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor. Originally known as the Administrative Services Building 1, the newly named and recently renovated Dr. Samuel Dewitt Proctor Hall houses student services. Proctor—who first spoke at Rutgers […]

June 28, 2021

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Modern States Education Alliance, Morgan State University Partner to Address College Affordability Challenges

With student debt loan rising—which currently exceeds $30,000 on average for recent graduates—non-profit Modern States Education Alliance sought to address the college affordability problem. The solution? Offering the ability for prospective students to earn college credit at no cost.

June 28, 2021

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Retiring President Dr. Diana M. Doyle Leaves Behind Legacy of Student Success Arapahoe Community College

Dr. Diana M. Doyle, president of Colorado’s Arapahoe Community College (ACC), has strategically navigated the impact of the pandemic, calling on her 43 years of experience in higher education. Doyle has been the president of ACC for the past 11 years, and, when she retires at the end of this academic year, she will do so with a sense of accomplishment and contentment.

June 28, 2021

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Former FAMU, TSU President Dr. Frederick Humphries Passes Away at 85

Dr. Frederick S. Humphries, former president of Florida A&M and Tennessee State universities, passed away last week at the age of 85. During a long and distinguished career of leadership and advocacy for HBCUs, Humphries also served as president and CEO of the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education. As news of the […]

June 28, 2021

EVE DE ROSA

EVE DE ROSA has been appointed dean of faculty at Cornell University. She is the first woman and first person of color to hold the position. An associate professor of human development in Cornell’s College of Human Ecology, De Rosa holds a bachelor’s degree in biology and psychology from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in experimental psychology from Harvard University.

June 25, 2021

JACK EADDY JR.

JACK EADDY JR. has been named director of athletic bands at Western Carolina University. Previously assistant director of bands at McNeese State University in Louisiana and at the University of South Carolina, he holds a master’s degree in music conducting from the University of Georgia and a doctorate from the University of North Texas.

June 25, 2021

ISAAC Y. KIM

ISAAC Y. KIM has been appointed chair of the Department of Urology at Yale School of Medicine and chief of urology at Yale New Haven Hospital. Kim holds high level positions at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey and Monmouth Medical Center. He holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University and an M.D. from the Feinberg School of Medicine at Northwestern University. He holds an MBA in finance from the the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

June 25, 2021

BARKLEY BARTON II

BARKLEY BARTON II has been appointed director of the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at the University of Georgia. Barton has 20 years of experience in admissions at various schools, including Clark Atlanta University, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Notre Dame, to name a few. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mass communication from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga and a master’s degree in higher education from Bay Path University.

June 25, 2021

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JULIAN VASQUEZ HEILIG

JULIAN VASQUEZ HEILIG has been named to the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education Board of Directors. Dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky since 2019, he holds a bachelor’s in history and psychology and a master’s in higher education from the University of Michigan. He also holds a master’s in sociology and a Ph.D. in educational administration and policy analysis from Stanford University.

June 25, 2021

JAYATI GHOSH

JAYATI GHOSH has been named dean of the Scott L. Carmona College of Business at Saginaw Valley State University in Michigan. Most recently dean of the School of Business Administration at Widener University in Pennsylvania, Ghosh holds master’s degrees from the University of Calcutta in India and Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

June 25, 2021