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Racism as a Public Health Crisis
At the close of 2019, Pittsburgh declared embedded racism “a public health crisis affecting our entire city.” This was an act of recognition by the city’s leaders of the profound impact of racial inequities on the health of its black and brown residents. It is easy to understand the threats to neighborhoods made proximate to […]
February 10, 2020
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Sandy Hicks, 79: First Recipient of MLK Award in 1987, Longtime Community Activist
MANCHESTER, NH — Sandra “Sandy” Toryeanea Hicks died peacefully January 22, 2020, at home in Manchester at the age of 79 after a long illness. Sandy is known for being the first recipient of the Martin Luther King Jr.Award in 1987 and also, in the same year, the recipient of the New Hampshire Unsung Heroine Award. […]
February 10, 2020
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UH Graduate Honored Alongside Madam Curie and Florence Nightingale
Alice Augusta Ball, University of Hawaiʻi’s first female and first African-American graduate, was honored alongside Marie Skłodowska-Curie (a.k.a. Madam Curie) and Florence Nightingale, with their names etched on the façade of the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM). The school celebrated its 120th anniversary in 2019. Ball, who passed away at the age of 24, was […]
February 10, 2020
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Opinion: Don’t Blame Students for Requesting Better Access to Mental Healthcare
I like to compare my anxiety disorder to a spiral. It coils around my heart, and on a good day, it’s relaxed, hanging loosely around it. There are other days, though, when the coil winds itself tight around my chest, making it hard to breathe and work and do any of the countless other activities […]
February 10, 2020
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Dr. Wilkins Named Co-principal Investigator for Institute for Clinical and Translational Science
Just a year after becoming vice president of Health Equity and associate dean of Health Equity at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee, Consuelo Wilkins, M.D., was recently named as a second principal investigator for Vanderbilt’s Institute for Clinical Translational Science Award (CTSA). There she will promote health equity initiatives, community engagement and recruiting […]
February 10, 2020
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Health Sciences Professor Among Connecticut Magazine’s 2020 Class of Influential Up-and-Comers
Alvin Tran, Sc.D., MPH was in a coffee shop in Seattle over winter break when he received an email stating he’d been recognized by Connecticut Magazine. At first, he thought it was a joke or a spam email, but after rereading, he realized it was the real thing. “I was ecstatic and overjoyed,” said Tran, 32, an […]
February 10, 2020
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Dr. Jack Thomas Tapped to Lead Central State University
Nearly eight months after Dr. Jack Thomas resigned as president of Western Illinois University (WIU) he was selected on Friday to serve as the ninth president of Central State University—a historically Black university in Wilberforce, Ohio.
February 9, 2020
Press Releases
2020 Dr. John Hope Franklin Award Winners Announced
PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Maya Matthews Minter Email: Maya@DiverseEducation.com Phone: 703.385.2411 FAIRFAX, Va. — Diverse: Issues In Higher Education is pleased to announce the recipients of this year’s Dr. John Hope Franklin Award. Dr. Walter Allen, one of the nation’s most distinguished professors of education, sociology and African American studies, is the Allan […]
February 7, 2020
African-American
How Dr. Hasan Jeffries is Rethinking the Way We Teach Black History
As a teenager in 1980s Brooklyn, Dr. Hasan Jeffries tried piecing together two different stories: the history he was learning in school and the events he was witnessing on the train to and from school. But they didn’t fit.
February 7, 2020
Students
NC State Partners With Community Colleges to Ease Transfer Process
By implementing a transfer dual-enrollment program, North Carolina State University (NC State) aims to increase the attendance rates of low-to-moderate-income and first-generation students.
February 7, 2020
Veterans
Signs of White Supremacy, Extremism Up Again in Poll of Active-Duty Troops
More than one-third of all active-duty troops and more than half of minority service members say they have personally witnessed examples of white nationalism or ideological-driven racism within the ranks in recent months, according to the latest survey of active-duty Military Times readers. The poll surveyed 1,630 active-duty Military Times subscribers last fall on their […]
February 7, 2020
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Alabama Man Who Helped Integrate Marines Dies
Raymond Williams, a member of the first U.S. Marines unit to accept African Americans during World War II, died Sunday in Birmingham at age 92, said his son, Kevin Williams. A corporal in the Montford Point Marines, Raymond Williams lived in Huntsville until recently moving to Birmingham to live with his daughter Felicia and son-in-law […]
February 7, 2020
HBCUs
Letter Requests Progress on Small Business Administration’s Outreach to HBCUs
Five members of Congress has signed a bipartisan letter to the Small Business Administration’s (SBA) associate administrator, Allen Gutierrez, requesting that the agency report its progress in implementing last year’s outreach goals to Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). In April 2019, Gutierrez testified on how SBA could provide better entrepreneurial services to HBCUs in […]
February 7, 2020
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Tuskegee Airman Who Attended UI Gets Promotion, Salute From President
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Last summer, Champaign County honored the oldest living member of the Tuskegee Airmen, making Charles E. McGee grand marshal of its Fourth of July parade. Tuesday night, it was the commander-in-chief’s turn. “General McGee, our nation salutes you. Thank you, sir,” President Donald Trump said during his State of the Union address, […]
February 7, 2020
Leadership & Policy
UNCF and H.E.L.F. Partner to Build HBCU Leadership Pipeline
With the average tenure of a college president steadily decreasing and a “mounting void within HBCU leadership,” the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and the Higher Education Leadership Foundation (H.E.L.F.) have announced a three-year partnership in which they will work together to educate and prepare a pipeline of individuals who wish to serve in leadership […]
February 7, 2020
News Roundup
First African American Female Elected Auburn University SGA President
Auburn University junior Ada Ruth Huntley has been elected Student Government Association (SGA) president, according to The Auburn Plainsman. Huntley is the first African-American woman elected to the post. According to the The Plainsman, Huntley’s campaign “focused on health, wellness and diversity.” Huntley said she wants to create an inclusion certification program for on-campus organizations […]
February 7, 2020
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Posse Program Brings Veterans to Wesleyan, Broadening Perspectives on Campus
While 21 percent of college students attend high-graduation rate colleges or universities like Wesleyan, only 10 percent of veterans do so, according to a 2019 report by research group Ithaka S+R. The Posse Foundation, in conjunction with the University of Chicago, Vassar College, the University of Virginia, and Wesleyan University, aims to boost those numbers. […]
February 7, 2020
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New Strategies Recommended to Promote Equity in Student Assessment
The January 2020 report, “A New Decade For Assessment: Embedding Equity into Assessment Praxis,” suggests new models that actively involve students throughout the process and offer enhanced professional development for relevant personnel.
February 7, 2020
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