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Gov. Greg Abbott Signs Bill Creating University of Houston Medical School
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has signed a bill creating a medical school at the University of Houston amid concerns about a physician shortage in the state. Under the legislation signed into law Wednesday, the University of Houston’s College of Medicine will be the 13th medical school in Texas. It will be based in the UH System’s flagship […]
May 6, 2019
Disparities
Johns Hopkins University to Open New Center That Focuses on School Safety And Health
The Johns Hopkins University announced Monday that it will create a new interdisciplinary center for school safety and health, the first in the nation in higher education. The center, announced at a conference of Education Writers Association being held this week in Baltimore, will bring together more than two dozen faculty from disciplines as diverse as education […]
May 6, 2019
Disparities
UAB Awards $2.7 Million to Improve Health Rankings by 2030
An employee at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and her team received millions of dollars in awards from the university last week for her campaign aimed at making Alabama a healthier state by 2030. Mona Fouad, director of the UAB Minority Health and Health Disparities Research Center, and her project “Healthy Alabama 2030: Live […]
May 6, 2019
Disparities
Brown University Launches Research on HIV in PH, Other Health Issues
A team of faculty and student scholars from the Brown University School of Public Health launched a new initiative to centralize research focused on improving health outcomes among Filipinos and Filipino Americans. The Philippine Health Initiative for Research, Service and Training will bring together the work of researchers from across the School of Public Health […]
May 6, 2019
Other News
University of Maryland Medical Center Seeks 5 Percent Rate Hike Amid Contracts Scandal
As the University of Maryland Medical System faces fallout from a scandal involving lucrative contracts awarded to its board members, including Catherine Pugh, who has since resigned from the board and as Baltimore’s mayor, the system’s flagship hospital has made a move to charge its patients more. The University of Maryland Medical Center asked state […]
May 6, 2019
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DeVos Discusses Range of Topics at EWA Gathering
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos addressed topics ranging from teacher strikes to the recently introduced Education Freedom Scholarships and Opportunity Act in an appearance Monday at the 72nd national seminar of the Education Writers Association.
May 6, 2019
Latest News
New Partnership Helps Junior Faculty Become Research Investigators
Howard University and the National Institutes of Health has launched a pilot program which aims to position Howard junior faculty on the path to becoming seasoned research investigators.
May 6, 2019
News Roundup
Mark Kennedy Named President of the University of Colorado
The Board of Regents of the University of Colorado (CU) recently named Mark Kennedy as the university’s 23rd president, effective July 2019. Kennedy is currently president of the University of North Dakota and he is a former congressman from Minnesota. He will replace outgoing CU president Bruce D. Benson, who will retire in June. “CU […]
May 6, 2019
Opinion
Quashing Demonstrations Stifles Leadership Development and Change
Research shows demonstrations unite communities around important causes and help students learn how to advocate for change. It helps them find their voice and self-efficacy and to feel like leaders instead of victims as they engage in difficult conversations.
May 6, 2019
Opinion
Can We Break Our ‘Cycle of Gun Violence’?
It’s Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, but the first week in May will always and forever commemorate the death of my cousin Stephen Guillermo, a 26-year-old senior at San Francisco State University in 2014.
May 6, 2019
News Roundup
Marc H. Morial to Give Grambling Commencement Keynote Address
Marc H. Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League and president of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, will be the keynote speaker at the Grambling State University commencement at the Fredrick C. Hobdy Assembly Center. Morial is well known for his work as former mayor of New Orleans, a tenure that included developing […]
May 6, 2019
News Roundup
Yale Professors Change Minds, Won’t Abandon Ethnic Studies Program
Weeks after 13 Yale University senior faculty declared that they were withdrawing their services from the Ethnicity, Race & Migration program, its chairwoman has announced that “new institutional status and permanence” granted the program will allow them to recommit to it, according to a report in the New Haven Register. In March, the tenured professors […]
May 6, 2019
Other News
Tuskegee to Commission 14 During Joint ROTC Commissioning Ceremony on May 10
During Tuskegee University’s Joint ROTC Commissioning Ceremony on Friday, May 10, 14 graduates from the Class of 2019 will receive their military commissions — five from the Air Force ROTC, seven from the Army ROTC, and two from the Navy ROTC. The ceremony is slated to begin at 1:00 p.m. in the University Chapel. All […]
May 5, 2019
Other News
Kansas Military School Moves to Keep Property From Founder
Nearly seven months before publicly announcing its plans to close, an embattled Kansas military school amended its incorporation document to remove the Episcopalian church that founded it from getting the property once the school shuts down. The revelation came when the document, signed by the school’s president last year and filed with the Kansas secretary […]
May 5, 2019
Academics
Clovis Students Who Chose Military Service Over College Honored at Annual Dinner
Clovis Unified students going on to join the armed forces after graduation were celebrated Wednesday. The third annual Patriot’s Dinner took place at the Clovis Veterans Memorial District to honor the seniors who have either enlisted to serve, are enrolled in ROTC programs or military academies. Read More
May 5, 2019
Veterans
What Do Military Service Members Think About Diversity — Especially Gender Diversity — in Their Ranks?
Following a Supreme Court decision in January, the Pentagon confirmed April 15 that it would effectively ban transgender people from attending the U.S. Naval Academy and other service academies starting in the fall of 2020. We wanted to examine what Naval Academy midshipmen think about diversity in general and about gender nonconformity in particular. Read More
May 5, 2019
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Report Targets Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality
African-American women are dying from preventable pregnancy-related complications at three to four times the rate of non-Hispanic White women, according to a report from the Center for American Progress, which also found that the death rate for Black infants is twice that of infants born to non-Hispanic White mothers.
May 5, 2019
Leadership & Policy
Stepping Away From The Brink
It seems every time we take a look at higher education publications, we read about a college or university that is on the brink of a merger, associating with another institution, and/or facing the risk of closure. Higher education globally is facing unprecedented challenges, and universities and colleges need to figure out effective ways to reinvent themselves.
May 5, 2019
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