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Leadership & Policy

University of Louisville President Doesn’t Offer Resignation as New Board Meets

LOUISVILLE, Ky. ― University of Louisville President James Ramsey’s status remained in limbo Wednesday when the embattled campus leader failed to immediately follow through on his pledge to offer his resignation to the school’s new governing board. The reorganized board of trustees ― formed last month when Gov. Matt Bevin disbanded the former board amid […]

July 13, 2016

South Carolina Lawyer Pleads Guilty in Alabama Sorority Scam

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. ― A South Carolina lawyer pleaded guilty to bank fraud in a scam involving construction of a $14 million, 40,000-square-foot sorority house at the University of Alabama, prosecutors said Wednesday. Jennifer Elizabeth Meehan, 39, of Sandy Springs, South Carolina, pleaded guilty Tuesday during a federal court hearing in Huntsville to submitting false invoices […]

July 13, 2016

Congress Probes Indian Health Service

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Members of Congress are questioning the longstanding staffing and management shortcomings that have led to poor health care services at government-run facilities caring for Native Americans across the country. The hearing July 12 in Washington of the House subcommittee on Indian, Insular and Alaska Native Affairs focused on proposed legislation that […]

July 13, 2016

Johnson C. Smith University Gets $1M Grant from Leon Levine Foundation

Johnson C. Smith joins the growing list of colleges and universities that are setting aside emergency funds to support students who face a shortfall between financial aid packages and the rising cost of tuition.

July 13, 2016

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The Racial Divide: Time for that Long Overdue Discussion

As Americans, we now must redouble our efforts to have an open and honest conversation about race relations.

July 13, 2016

Dr. Henry N. Tisdale

Native American Cultural Spaces on Campuses Getting Financial Short Shrift

Inequities in funding continue to persist for different cultural spaces at universities.

July 13, 2016

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A Walk to Remember

The Evergreen State College’s nontraditional approaches to teaching, learning add flavor to institution’s notable diversity climate.

July 13, 2016

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African-American

Yale Worker Destroys Stained-glass Window Depicting Slaves

NEW HAVEN, Conn. – A former Yale University dining services worker facing criminal charges for destroying a stained-glass window depicting slaves in a cotton field said Tuesday that he should not have done it, but he found the image disturbing. Corey Menafee, who is black, used a broomstick last month to break the window inside Calhoun […]

July 12, 2016

Policy Analysts Propose ‘Rule of 10’ to Refocus on Students’ Financial Needs

Policy analysts unveiled a new paper Tuesday that espouses a “Rule of 10”in an effort to refocus the student financial aid system on student needs and limitations.

July 12, 2016

African-American

Dallas Police Shooting — Trading Calm for Reason and Truth

The tragic events that recently occurred in Baton Rouge, Minneapolis and Dallas combine to teach a sad and painful message about the fragility of American society and how far we have not come in the last half century. The occurrence of the tragedy is the first part of the story. The way in which that […]

July 12, 2016

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JCSU Establishes Center for Culture and Race in China

Johnson C. Smith University brings Black history and culture to China with the opening of the Center for American Culture and Race at Guangdong Baiyun University.

July 12, 2016

Maine Residency Program Promotes Preventative Health

PORTLAND, Maine — Maine Medical Center is leaning on the power of plants to grow a crop the state could always use more of — doctors. A new preventive medicine residency program at the hospital hopes to build up the number of doctors in the state who are dedicated to helping Mainers avoid disease through […]

July 12, 2016

Hospital and IHS Partner Against Cancer

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The Roswell Park Cancer Institute is part of a new collaboration targeting cancer in Native American and Alaska Native communities. The Buffalo hospital will work with the Indian Health Service of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under an agreement that focuses on cancer prevention and research. Roswell Park researcher […]

July 12, 2016

Mental Health And Latinos After Orlando

Weeks after the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando on June 12, where 96% of victims and most survivors were Hispanics, the issue of mental health has taken center stage as one of the most pressing community concerns. “The perception amongst Hispanics is that people who need mental health services are ‘locos’ or insane,” states Denisse […]

July 12, 2016

Cleveland State: No On-campus Classes During Convention

CLEVELAND ― Cleveland State University has announced it won’t hold classes on campus during the Republican National Convention next week. The university has told professors to find other ways to teach, including off-campus meeting places, working online or assigning take-home work. University spokesman Will Dube tells cleveland.com the decision came after the Secret Service released […]

July 12, 2016

Leadership & Policy

University of Akron Announces Interim President

AKRON, Ohio ― The University of Akron has announced its interim president. The university’s Board of Trustees on Monday named School of Law Dean Matthew Wilson as interim president. In a statement, the university says Wilson has increased enrollment and employment rates at the School of Law. Wilson says he’s humbled by the appointment. He […]

July 12, 2016

Texas Accused of Ignoring Mentally Disabled in Nursing Homes

It took more than 40 years for Leonard Barefield to finally get to choose where he lived. The intellectually-disabled Texas native moved to a group home in Lubbock in September after he had first lived in near slavery conditions for more than three decades in a squalid house in Iowa and worked at a turkey […]

July 12, 2016

How ‘Pokémon Go’ is improving mental health

It’s been less than a week since “Pokémon Go” was unceremoniously dropped into the hands of the smartphone-wielding masses, and players have already managed to troll Westboro Baptist Church, get robbed at gunpoint and even stumble across a dead body. The response to the augmented reality game has been explosive — not unlike the initial […]

July 12, 2016