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Disparities
3 Inmates Hospitalized, 1 Dead In Meningitis Outbreak
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Public health and corrections officials are responding to an illness outbreak at an Alabama prison that left one inmate dead. The Alabama Department of Public Health reported a pneumococcal disease outbreak at the Ventress Correctional Facility in Barbour County. Three inmates were hospitalized, and one inmate died after developing meningitis. Health officials […]
October 2, 2018
Disparities
Contraception ‘Deserts’ Widen under Trump Policy
When Nikia Jackson needed to be screened for a sexually transmitted disease, she wanted a clinic that was reputable, quick and inexpensive. After searching online, Jackson, 23, ended up at the Obria Medical Clinics’ sparkling new facility in an office park in suburban Atlanta. She was unaware that the clinic does not offer condoms or […]
October 2, 2018
Disparities
Bill Addresses Racial Disparities in Maternal Deaths
A piece of legislation before the U.S. Senate would aim to address racial disparities in maternal mortality and morbidity. Senators Tim Kaine and Kamala D. Harris introduced the Maternal care Access and Reducing Emergencies Act. According to a release, the United States is one of only 13 countries in the world where the rate of […]
October 2, 2018
Disparities
Complaint Alleges Racial Bias in Failure to Address Sewage Risk
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — An advocacy group claims Alabama health officials are discriminating against residents of a poor, mostly black county by failing to address sanitation problems that led to an outbreak of a parasite most common in underdeveloped countries. San Francisco-based Earthjustice said it filed a civil rights complaint with the federal government on behalf […]
October 2, 2018
Disparities
Study: Minority Medical Residents Routinely Face Racism
(Reuters Health) – Minority doctors in training routinely deal with bias, sometimes subtle, sometimes not so subtle, a new study suggests. Researchers found that resident physicians from racial and ethnic minorities face a daily barrage of microaggressions as well as overt prejudice, according to the study published in JAMA Network Open. Read More
October 2, 2018
Other News
AP Fact Check: Trump Claims on Pre-Existing Conditions? False
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump isn’t playing it straight when it comes to his campaign pledge not to undercut health coverage for people with pre-existing medical conditions. Five weeks before midterm elections, he is telling voters that those provisions “are safe,” even as his Justice Department is arguing in court that those protections in the […]
October 2, 2018
Other News
Even Light Exercise Helps Memory, Study Finds
How much exercise does it take to boost your memory skills? Possibly a lot less than you’d think, according to the results of a new study that examined the impact of light exercise on memory. In their study of 36 healthy young adults, researchers found surprisingly immediate improvements in memory after just 10 minutes of […]
October 2, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Playing Catch Up
The last time the Higher Education Act was rewritten, the iPhone was just a year old. Apple’s app store had just launched. The nation was entering the Great Recession. In the decade since, few places changed more substantially than our nation’s colleges and universities. College tuition grew at four times the rate of inflation over […]
October 2, 2018
Veterans
Virginia Secretary Visits University Student Veterans
The Virginia Secretary of Education Atif Qarni spoke to a group of VCU military veterans at Cabell Library Sept. 21. The event — organized by Military Student Services Director Stephen Ross — focused on what veterans go through when transitioning from their time in the armed forces back to civilian life. “This was a really […]
October 2, 2018
Academics
Course Gets Senior NCOs Ready for Post-Army Life
Twelve sergeants major and one spouse gathered for the second Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program’s Nominative Command Sergeants Major and Sergeants Major Course Sept. 17-21 at the Resiliency Center. The course, which was originally piloted in May with 16 sergeants major participating, is tailored to better fit the needs of senior noncommissioned officers […]
October 2, 2018
Policy
Transition Officer Selected for DOD Leadership Program
Miliani Jiménez, Ph.D., Research Psychologist, Transition to Veterans Program Office (TVPO), has been selected as a participant for the class of 2019 Executive Leadership Development Program (ELDP). ELDP supports the Department of Defense (DoD) civilian leader development continuum at the “lead people” level, and is designed to equip participants with the warfighter perspective. Jiménez designs, […]
October 2, 2018
Academics
MOOCs Find a New Audience on Campus
Colleges have been searching for new ways to make use of the massive open online courses they created ever since the fad died down several years ago. The latest idea: encourage residential students to take them—not for credit, but to fulfill prerequisites or just for personal enrichment. Read more
October 2, 2018
Policy
Immigration Policies Stall Pentagon’s Plan for Recruits
WASHINGTON — Stricter Trump administration immigration policies have stymied Pentagon plans to restart a program that allowed thousands of people with critical medical or Asian and African language skills to join the military and become American citizens, according to several U.S. officials. The decade-old program has been on hold since 2016 amid concerns that immigrant […]
October 2, 2018
Opinion
The Kavanaugh Lesson: Integrity over Influence
It’s a teachable moment if ever I saw one. During a public job interview for a lifetime position on the highest court in the land, Judge Brett Kavanaugh had to take an uncomfortable walk down memory lane to explain the drunken, misguided behavior of his youth.
October 2, 2018
Students
Mexican-American Professor Aims to Be ‘Agent of Ethnic Mobility’
She was born to a mother who left school after the third grade to work. Her late father attended school in a one-room adobe house in the mountains of Mexico, but never finished.
October 2, 2018
Sports
The Minority Coach Roundup Week 5
This weekend was another exciting one for 13 of the 18 minority head coaches in the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS).
October 2, 2018
News Roundup
Kavanaugh Not Returning to Harvard Law to Teach
Embattled U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh will not return to teach at Harvard Law School in January, according to an email administrators sent to law students Monday evening, reports the The Harvard Crimson school newspaper. “Today, Judge Kavanaugh indicated that he can no longer commit to teaching his course in January Term 2019, […]
October 2, 2018
MSIs
MSIs are ‘Turning Student Activism into Votes’
Several minority serving institutions (MSIs) highlighted in a new report from the Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions (CMSI) at the University of Pennsylvania are mobilizing their students to vote and become engaged around political issues, despite barriers that keep students away from the polls. MSI students and leaders are encouraging student voting and civic […]
October 2, 2018
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