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What Obamacare’s Critics Won’t Admit
THOUSAND OAKS, California ― Maryann Hammers is likely to die from ovarian cancer someday. But she hopes someday won’t come anytime soon. Hammers, 61, received the diagnosis in late 2013, and doctors told her that it was stage 3-C, which meant that she could live for many years with the right treatment and a little […]
February 22, 2017
Other News
Illinois Schools Adopt Asthma Protocols
CHICAGO — School personnel across Illinois are adapting to a new state law that requires districts to have an emergency protocol to deal with asthma emergencies. Under the law, anyone who works with students must be trained to handle asthma emergencies. All children with asthma must have a written “asthma action plan” at the school […]
February 22, 2017
Other News
Tribes Offer Sex Ed Public Schools Don’t
On a rainy Wednesday afternoon, four American Indian teenagers are gathered in a nondescript building along rural Okmulgee, Oklahoma’s main street. As the headquarters of the Muscogee Creek Nation, Okmulgee takes pride in its American Indian heritage. Street signs in the downtown area are in both English and Muscogee languages and tribal insignia is seen […]
February 22, 2017
Nursing
WVU Offers Tuition Incentives to Nursing Students
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — West Virginia University is offering tuition incentives in hopes of increasing the number of highly trained nurses in the state and beyond. The WVU School of Nursing says it will offer in-state tuition for all students — regardless of residency — to enhance opportunities for nurses through the online Registered Nurse to […]
February 22, 2017
Disparities
Refugees’s Needs Draw Doctors to Kansas
GARDEN CITY, Kan. — Dr. Scarlett Gard’s passion for humanitarian work took her to India and Bangladesh. After finishing her medical training, she set off for a place she knew had a diverse population in need of doctors: western Kansas. Gard came to the meatpacking town of Garden City to work with Somali immigrants — […]
February 22, 2017
Policies
Future Cloudy for Eric Garner Chokehold Case
NEW YORK — A federal civil rights investigation into the police chokehold death of Eric Garner has been moving forward in New York, but its future is uncertain as a U.S. attorney general with a law-and-order bent takes over the Justice Department. Two people with inside knowledge of the probe say a federal grand jury […]
February 22, 2017
Policies
McConnell Doesn’t Expect Democrats’ Help
WASHINGTON — Republicans will repeal and replace the health care law and overhaul the tax code without Democratic help or votes, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says. “It’s clear that in the early months it’s going to be a Republicans-only exercise,” the Kentucky senator said at a news conference February 17 before lawmakers left for […]
February 22, 2017
Policies
Single-Payer Plan Would Fulfill Promises
President Donald J. Trump’s proposal to replace the Affordable Care Act with a health care law that achieves more coverage, better benefits and lower costs could be attained through single-payer reform, according to a commentary published in Annals of Internal Medicine. “President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have vowed to repeal and replace the Patient […]
February 22, 2017
Faculty & Staff
As the Academic World Turns, Leadership Evolves
The following trends stand out as significant and influential in terms of how colleges and universities operate.
February 22, 2017
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OLGA PIERRAKOS
OLGA PIERRAKOS has been appointed founding chair of the Department of Engineering at Wake Forest University. She is program director of the Division of Undergraduate Education at the National Science Foundation (NSF). Pierrakos earned a bachelor’s and a master’s from Virginia Tech, and a doctorate from the Virginia Tech-Wake Forest University School of Biomedical Engineering & Sciences.
February 22, 2017
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CHERYL RULES
CHERYL RULES has been named dean of the College of Nursing and Allied Health at Grantham University. Her experience includes an extensive background in distance learning and online education. She was an ICU Clinical educator. Rules earned a master’s from Regis University and a doctorate from North Central University.
February 22, 2017
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MELVIN HERRING
MELVIN HERRING has been named director of the Masters in Social Work program at Johnson C. Smith University, beginning in May 2017. Herring earned a bachelor’s from North Carolina State University, a master’s from University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
February 22, 2017
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Social Media Scrutinity
How much of a candidate’s online presence should be considered when being recruited for a job at a college/university?
February 22, 2017
News Roundup
Clemson doctoral student produces rap album for dissertation; it goes viral
CLEMSON — Clemson University doctoral student A.D. Carson is many things — poet, activist, and rap artist to name a few — but “typical Ph.D. candidate” is not one of them. So when it came to writing a dissertation, he couldn’t simply write a traditional one. Instead, he produced a 34-song rap album that already […]
February 22, 2017
Students
Nguyen Draws on Experience to Start Repairing Education Inequities
Dr. Thai-Huy Nguyen, selected by Diverse as a member of the 2017 Class of Emerging Scholars, says he will function as a navigator to steer disadvantaged community college students through a system for which they are largely unfamiliar.
February 21, 2017
Students
Diverse Conversations: Affordability Biggest Key to College Access
What does it actually take to make higher education accessible to a larger portion of the population? Affordability.
February 21, 2017
Students
Free Speech, at the Expense of Who and What?
Let’s be clear: The night of protest at UC Berkeley was full of controversy; however, there was no infringement on Milo Yiannopoulos’ freedom of speech. In fact, this couldn’t be anything further from the truth.
February 21, 2017
Students
Court Rules Against Accrediting Agency of ITT Tech, Corinthian Colleges
The Accrediting Council on Independent Colleges and Schools — the accrediting agency that had oversight for two recently collapsed for-profit schools — lost its bid to stop the U.S. Department of Education from terminating its federal recognition.
February 21, 2017
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