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Academics
Massachusetts Senate Approves “Brave Act” Benefits for Active Military, Veterans
(Boston, Mass.) – The Massachusetts State Senate on Thursday unanimously passed “The Brave Act” – new legislation that will expand benefits and increase access to a range of services for veterans, active-duty military and their families, Senator Mike Rush (D-West Roxbury) announced. Read More
May 8, 2018
Academics
El Paso Campus Increases Resources for Military Students
The University of Texas at El Paso says its counseling program is in high demand due to an increase in military students. Priscilla Tremenheere is the assistant director for the Military Student Success Center. She says the number of UTEP military students doubled from around 1,500 in 2015 to around 3,000 in 2018. Read More
May 8, 2018
Academics
Colorado Acts to Award Credits for Military Training
DENVER – The Colorado Commission on Higher Education (CCHE) took action on Friday, May 4, to significantly expand the commission policy on prior learning assessment, which allows students to earn college credit for expertise outside the classroom. With the changes, military and veteran students can now be awarded credit for military courses, occupations and assessments […]
May 8, 2018
Academics
College Gives Posthumous Degree to Black Vet Denied Admission
HATTIESBURG, Miss. — The University of Southern Mississippi will award a posthumous honorary degree to a black U.S. Army veteran who was rejected when he tried to integrate the school decades ago. Clyde Kennard applied several times between 1955 and 1959 to what was then called Mississippi Southern College. His applications were blocked by state, […]
May 8, 2018
African-American
Academics Remember Renowned Literary Scholar Marcellus Blount
Former students and professional colleagues are mourning the death of Dr. Marcellus Blount, a well-known scholar of African-American literary and cultural studies who taught at Columbia University since 1985.
May 7, 2018
Latest News
Shooting Threat Closes Houston Community College Campus
HOUSTON—For the second day in a row, the Houston Community College Central Campus will be closed due to a shooting threat made on social media over the weekend. The anonymous threat didn’t name an individual, nor was it specific to any department of the college. A media briefing has been scheduled for noon on Tuesday. […]
May 7, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
Shedding Light on Asian American and Asian Students’ Mental Health Needs
The “Let’s Talk!” conference at the Harvard Graduate School of Education convened Pan-Asian college students, supporters and other educational leaders for a day-long forum addressing the success and well-being of Asian and Asian American college students across the country.
May 7, 2018
News Roundup
University Pulls Convicted Sex Offender’s Artwork from Show
LEWISTON, Maine (AP) — A Maine university has removed artwork from a campus gallery upon learning the artist of the three works is a convicted sex offender. The University of Southern Maine removed the works by Bruce Habowski when a relative of one of his victim’s called to complain. The Portland Press Herald reports a […]
May 7, 2018
News Roundup
University of Florida Apologizes for Pushy Graduation Usher
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The University of Florida is apologizing to students who complained that an usher was aggressively pushing and grabbing them as they entered the stage during a graduation ceremony. University of Florida President W. Kent Fuchs said on Twitter on Sunday the usher was “inappropriately aggressive in rushing students across the stage.” The […]
May 7, 2018
News Roundup
University Fined After Weapons-Grade Plutonium Goes Missing
BOISE, Idaho — A small amount of radioactive, weapons-grade plutonium about the size of a U.S. quarter is missing from an Idaho university that was using it for research, leading federal officials on Friday to propose an $8,500 fine. The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Idaho State University can’t account for about a 30th of […]
May 7, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Stigma in Mental Health
“La ropa sucia se lava en casa.” “Dirty laundry is washed at home.” There are few challenges more vexing in health care marketing than the therapeutic areas of behavioral and mental health. Some would argue that chief among them is the social stigma associated with mental health — the cultural imperative to keep a patient […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
State Finds Obesity Disparity Growing
Money appears to be a strong separator between the lean and the obese in Minnesota, which has one of the nation’s widest economic gaps when it comes to excess weight gain. Minnesota ranked 42nd among states for its disparity, because the obesity rate of 28 percent for all adults in the state in 2016 bloated […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Guidelines Urge Care for Mothers After Birth
As mothers around the world marvel that Kate Middleton went home from the hospital mere hours after giving birth to her third child Monday, the largest group of women’s doctors in the U.S. is urging a major shift in the way physicians care for mothers of new babies. Instead of waiting six weeks for a […]
May 7, 2018
Policies
Flies Infest VA Operating Rooms
An undercover reporter wearing a hidden camera at West Lost Angeles VA found a multi-year fly infestation in operating rooms at the facility. Over 80 surgeries were canceled as a result. Investigative reporter David Goldstein wore a hidden camera during his three-month investigation into conditions at the facility’s conditions. He found hundreds of flytraps all […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Students Kickstart Project for Minority Healthcare
A group of Penn State students have started an effort to bring awareness of and encourage the use of health and wellness services among minority students on campus. A new component of HealthWorks, the Minority Health Initiative, was created to educate students on the resources available to them by HealthWorks and to provide them with […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Trump to Appoint Dr. Oz to Fitness Panel
The Trump administration announced Friday that the president would appoint 1986 Wharton MBA and School of Medicine graduate Mehmet Oz of “The Dr. Oz Show” to the President’s Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition. Known often as “Dr. Oz,” Oz has entered into public discourse on numerous occasions as a result of controversial statements and […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Plan May Make it Harder to Get Healthcare for Disabled
Can you imagine going to your doctor’s office and not being able to get on the examination table because it is too high? Or not being weighed throughout your entire pregnancy because your primary care physician does not have a wheelchair-accessible scale? Unfortunately, these examples are the stark reality for people with disabilities. Notwithstanding advancements […]
May 7, 2018
Disparities
Black Patients in ICU with Heart Failure Less Likely to See Cardiologist
African-Americans Admitted to the intensive care unit (ICU) for heart failure are less likely than white patients to receive care by a cardiologist. “It is important to realize that here are racial disparities in American healthcare,” Dr. Khadija Breathett from the University of Arizona in Tuscon told Reuters Health. “In order to receive equal access […]
May 7, 2018
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