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Georgia Universities, Family Services Agency Partner on Child Welfare
The schools of social work at the University of Georgia and Georgia State University and the Georgia Division of Family and Children Services are teaming up for the next four years in an initiative aimed at boosting the state’s capacity to provide high-quality child welfare services.
June 5, 2019
News Roundup
AMA Announces Recipients of $15M Reimagining Residency Initiative
The American Medical Association selected eight award recipients to participate in its newly developed Reimagining Residency Initiative. AMA’s $14.4 million award will fund eight projects from medical schools, residency programs and health systems that have a goal to improve residency training. Each project will receive $1.8 million over five years. “After establishing a framework for […]
June 5, 2019
LGBTQ+
Survey Shows More Americans Don’t Care About Coworkers’ Sexuality
A new research study shows that an increasing number of Americans don’t care about their coworkers’ sexuality or gender expression. A survey in May of more than 2,000 employees revealed that 60 percent of Americans have no preference about with whom they work, compared to 55 percent the prior year, according to Bospar, a California-based […]
June 5, 2019
News Roundup
CMSI Selects New Cohort of MSI Aspiring Leaders, Presidential Mentors
The Penn Center for Minority Serving Institutions in the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania has selected the next cohort of mid-career aspiring leaders for the second MSI Aspiring Leaders Forum. The forum, slated for Nov. 1-3, will include a range of sessions such as fiscal management, strategic fundraising, presidential fit and […]
June 5, 2019
Women
The ‘Weaker Sex’? #FACTS
As my last blog post, I want to leave you with a challenge – a challenge that, in the spirit of this blog, is at the intersection of diversity, education and health, and, I believe that, if accepted, can help initiate change we are sorely in need of today. The challenge is based on a question that I have asked myself on and off throughout my life. This question has been on my mind more and more recently as a result of the political and social climate in the US and my work focused on women’s health. The question?“Who is the ‘weaker sex?’”
June 5, 2019
Opinion
‘Discrimination’ and Discrimination
At the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, discrimination is out in the open — and it’s fine. When you arrive, the sign above the lobby counter indicates that anybody named “Isabella” may enter without charge. I’d never seen anything like it.
June 4, 2019
News Roundup
Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig Named Dean at University of Kentucky
Julian Vasquez Heilig has been named dean of the College of Education at the University of Kentucky, pending approval from the university’s Board of Trustees. Vasquez Heilig comes to the university from California State University, Sacramento, where he served as professor of educational leadership and policy studies and director of the Doctorate in Educational Leadership […]
June 4, 2019
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Study: Young Americans’ Wages Same As Decade Ago
Adjusted for inflation, young Americans are earning the exact wages their counterparts were paid a decade ago and are feeling left behind economically, according to a study released Tuesday by Young Invincibles.
June 4, 2019
Latest News
Georgia State Names Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans as WGSS Director
Dr. Stephanie Y. Evans has been named the next director of the Institute for Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at Georgia State University.
June 4, 2019
News Roundup
Rutgers Under Criticism for Defunding Student Newspaper
The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) has called on Rutgers University to restore funding to The Daily Targum and reform its “unconstitutional funding policy” after a referendum vote stripped the student newspaper of its funding. FIRE officials cited four ways in which the university violated students’ rights, singling out the referendum vote that […]
June 4, 2019
News Roundup
Freedom Summer of ’64 Award Bestowed on Historic Church
Miami University in Oxford, Ohio will present the historic Mt. Zion United Methodist Church in Mississippi with the Freedom Summer of ’64 Award to honor the legacy of three Freedom Summer volunteers killed 55 years ago by the Ku Klux Klan. The Freedom Summer award will be presented at Mt. Zion on June 16 – […]
June 4, 2019
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OSU’s College of Education is Making Diverse Faculty Hiring a Top Priority
The Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology has recruited some of the nation’s top Black scholars in the fields of education to join its faculty in the Fall. The assembling of this “dream team” which includes scholars such as Drs. Donna Y. Ford, Lori Patton Davis and Edward Fletcher is part of an aggressive plan by the school’s relatively new dean to diversify the school’s faculty.
June 3, 2019
HBCUs
Leave Ready, to Pivot: A Researcher’s Reflection on Purpose Beyond the Professoriate
“Leave Ready” is a campaign by Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA) for its students centered on the notion of readiness. Signs and graphics, at one point, populated the campus with pictures of students and successful alumni with the slogan “Leave Ready.”
June 3, 2019
Disparities
University of Minnesota Health Officially Launches New Headache Care Program
The University of Minnesota Health launched its new Headache Care program just two weeks ago. Ahead of Migraine Awareness Month, in June, 5 Eyewitness News went to the University of Minnesota Health to find out how the new program is designed to help migraine sufferers in a whole new way. “It’s more than just a […]
June 3, 2019
Other News
Colorado State University Health And Medical Center To House CU Medical School Branch
Colorado State University is joining forces with the University of Colorado School of Medicine to establish a medical school branch at the CSU Health and Medical Center in Fort Collins. The $59 million, 113,000-square-foot facility opened at the corner of College Avenue and Prospect Road in 2017, consolidating student medical, counseling and health education and prevention services in one […]
June 3, 2019
Other News
UF College of Pharmacy Receives Top Funding Across Country
What does $23.7 million get you? For UF’s College of Pharmacy, the answer is fourth place. The American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) ranked 142 pharmacy programs across the country, and UF made it in the top five in all three categories. The UF College of Pharmacy ranked fourth in the total amount of funding with […]
June 3, 2019
Disparities
A Major Shortage Of End-Of-Life Doctors Is Coming
A declining number of physicians specialized in palliative care looms and won’t recover for 25 years without major U.S. health policy changes, new research in the June issue of Health Affairs shows. Research led by Dr. Arif Kamal at Duke University shows about one-third of palliative care clinicians are burned out and about two in five are 56 […]
June 3, 2019
Nursing
Fitchburg State Signs Nursing Degree Agreements With Community Colleges
Fitchburg State University has signed nursing-degree agreements with community colleges in Worcester, Gardner, Bedford and Fall River. The agreements, which the university announced Monday, guarantee students a spot at Fitchburg State’s bachelor’s nursing program and is aimed at helping ensure more of the state’s nurses have bachelor’s degrees in the coming years. Read More
June 3, 2019
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