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Lawmakers Tour Arapaho-Run Clinic

Legislators learned about innovations at the Northern Arapaho Tribe’s health clinic when they gathered in Fort Washakie for a tribal relations committee meeting this week. The tribe took over its health clinic from the federal government back in 2016 in hopes of addressing health disparities they struggle with among their members. Read More

September 5, 2018

17 Health Care Systems Launch Project for Underserved

Seventeen health systems, encompassing 280 hospitals—5 percent of the hospitals in the country—have come together to figure out financially sustainable solutions to the problem of how to improve health care for underserved people and their families. Read More

September 5, 2018

Maryland County Giving Out Condoms at Schools

When high school students in Montgomery County, Maryland, go back to school Tuesday after summer vacation, some of them will have one extra resource available to them: condoms. Record rates of sexually transmitted diseases around the country, as well as in the county, have alarmed local officials, who say distributing condoms in schools is one […]

September 5, 2018

Institutions Actively Help Military Members and Veterans Earn College Degrees

Matthew Oliveira, who has been in the Coast Guard for 12 years and is currently stationed in South Carolina, knew that he wanted to finish his degree because it would make him more “marketable.” So in the fall of 2016, Oliveira enrolled as a student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in a fully online academic program that caters to adult students called University Without Walls (UWW).

September 5, 2018

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Summer Program Stirs Students to Action on Environment

The number of Dearborn students becoming involved in more activism and learning development committees is increasing each year and the Environmental Health Research-to-Action (EHRA) Academy under Healthy Dearborn has empowered Dearborn high school and college preparatory students to take action in the health concerns facing Dearborn’s Southend. Developed by two U of M-Dearborn faculty members, […]

September 5, 2018

Yale Launches Minority Healthcare Fellowship

The Yale School of Management next year will launch the Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Minority Health Leadership, a program that aims to equip health care practitioners with the leadership and managerial skills required to address inequities in the U.S. health care system. Read More

September 5, 2018

‘Chief Wahoo’ Activist Sentenced for Embezzling Native American Funds

CLEVELAND, Ohio — A prominent activist known for his opposition to the Cleveland Indians’ Chief Wahoo mascot was sentenced Wednesday to four months in prison and four months of house arrest for stealing more than $77,000 in federal grant money meant to benefit Native Americans in Northeast Ohio. Read More

September 5, 2018

GOP Candidates Recast Their Records on Pre-Existing Conditions

Josh Hawley, the Republican Senate candidate in Missouri, says he is all about making sure anybody can get health insurance, regardless of their medical status: “We need to cover pre-existing conditions,” he said earlier this summer. But Hawley, who is currently Missouri’s attorney general, is one of the 20 state officials who has signed onto […]

September 5, 2018

Point Park University to Launch a School of Education

Point Park University has created a School of Education, providing flexible online, campus and hybrid programs for undergraduate, master’s and doctoral degrees in education, according to university officials. “Establishing a School of Education at Point Park reflects the status and reputation of this exceptional department, not only regionally and nationally, but within our own campus community,” said Dr. Paul […]

September 5, 2018

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Jason Brooks Appointed Director of UK’s MLK Center

Dr. Jason Brooks, assistant dean of students for diversity, equity and inclusion at Emporia State University, has been appointed as director of the University of Kentucky Martin Luther King Center, effective Sept. 24. “I am very excited to have Jason join our campus community as the new director of the MLK Center,” said Dr. Sonja […]

September 5, 2018

UMass Amherst Graduate School to Launch STEM Fellowship Program Geared to Historically Underrepresented Students

The University of Massachusetts Amherst Graduate School will begin a fellowship program starting Fall 2019, geared towards increasing the percent of historically underrepresented students majoring in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. The program, named the Spaulding-Smith Fellowship Program, after UMass Amherst alums Major Franklin Spaulding and Elizabeth Hight Smith, will assist 20 […]

September 5, 2018

Diversity at Stake in Kavanaugh Hearings

Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination is about institutionalizing the trend at the highest court to reverse everything that makes American society coincide with a sense of racial diversity and fairness.

September 5, 2018

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Guns on College Campuses Debate Ushers in New School Year

The issue of guns on campuses looms large as differing groups seek to find a balance between First Amendment free speech rights and the Second Amendment right to bear arms. Students and academics weigh in on the controversy as another semester begins.

September 4, 2018

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Spelman Receives Largest Single Donation of Books from Henry Louis Gates

Renowned Harvard University scholar Dr. Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. has awarded Spelman College with the largest single donation of books given to a historically Black college or university. Spelman received nearly 14,000 volumes from Gates’ personal library. The collection will be housed in the Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library, where Spelman students […]

September 4, 2018

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Poor in Rich Times: State Funding for Public Higher Education in California

In spring 2018, I woke up to an email announcing a proposed $61 million cut from the Governor’s Office to the California State University’s (CSU) 23-campus system’s requested budget for 2018-2019. I had long been baffled that a state so rich in resources – the sixth largest economy in the world – could be so poor when it came to supporting the single largest producer of the California’s workforce.

September 4, 2018

UConn Has Been “Intentional” About Diversity Efforts

The University of Connecticut (UConn) has created and implemented a variety of wrap-around support services to assist minority students on its campus. Of the 23,845 undergraduates in attendance at UConn, 51 percent are female and 33 percent are minority students, according to college officials. For the 8,337 graduate students, 53 percent are female, while 19 […]

September 4, 2018

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Abandoning Borrowers

The common wisdom is that college is a must-take route to lifetime success. Most people fuel their journey with student loans. A federal agency created to make sure education consumers have protection is siding with financial sharks instead. Student-loan oversight was a significant part of the portfolio of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, created in […]

September 4, 2018

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GI Benefits in Jeopardy at Some California Campuses

The agency in California that oversees veteran education benefits has warned several schools with satellite campuses in the state that they could soon lose their eligibility to accept GI Bill funds which would, in turn, affect their students. Inside Higher Ed reports the California State Approving Agency for Veterans Education has sent suspension letters to […]

September 4, 2018