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Current Head of Mississippi Valley is Pick for Jackson State
JACKSON, Miss. — The College Board is choosing the head of Mississippi Valley State University as its preferred candidate to lead Jackson State University. Trustee C.D. Smith announced the choice Monday. William Bynum Jr. became president of Mississippi Valley, the smallest of Mississippi’s eight public universities, in 2013. He will meet with members of the […]
May 22, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Repeal Obamacare Taxes
When it was signed into law in 2010, ObamaCare imposed roughly one trillion dollars in taxes on the American people. The nearly 20 new or higher taxes hit middle class families and small businesses, raised the cost of healthcare, and reduced access to care. These taxes must be repealed in healthcare reform legislation. The House-passed […]
May 22, 2017
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Other News
Abortion Gag Order Has Wider Effects
President Donald Trump recently signed an executive order that media reports say could obstruct nearly US$8.8 billion the U.S. spends annually to fight deadly diseases abroad. Here, Maureen Miller, a Columbia University Medical Center professor and infectious disease epidemiologist with training in medical anthropology, answers five questions about this move, including what it has to […]
May 22, 2017
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How Bad Is the Healthcare Act for Women?
“Across the board, this is a terrible bill for women,” said Jamila K. Taylor, senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, speaking about the American Health Care Act (AHCA). The Republican-led House of Representatives passed the bill on May 4, without waiting for a report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, whose economic analysis […]
May 22, 2017
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Opioid Epidemic: Treatment Not Punishment
Second of three parts. Read part one: A Personal Look at a National Problem. Opioid addiction takes a personal toll, but it also has countrywide consequences. On an average day in the U.S., someone begins nonmedical use of opioids every 22 seconds; someone starts using heroin every two and a half minutes; and someone dies […]
May 22, 2017
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Center Convenes Global Summit on Indigenous Care
Indigenous peoples across America and around the globe often struggle with diabetes, obesity, cardiovascular disease and substance abuse. Finding solutions for those health care issues requires closer interaction between those affected communities and health care professionals like nurses, who work on the frontlines daily. Five months after it was established, Florida State University’s Center for […]
May 22, 2017
Policies
State Attorneys Seek Role in Obamacare Case
More than a dozen Democratic attorneys general on Thursday sought to intervene to defend a key part of the Obamacare healthcare law – subsidy payments to insurance companies – which is under threat in a court case. The 16 attorneys general, led by California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, […]
May 22, 2017
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Policies
Majority of Doctors Disapprove of Trumpcare
Fifty-eight percent of U.S. physicians disapprove of the president’s healthcare plan, according to an InCrowd survey of 1,003 physicians. Here are five insights: Of the surveyed physicians, 56 percent disapprove of President Donald Trump’s overall performance. Twenty-eight percent of physicians support the American Health Care Act, compared to 54 percent who approve of the ACA. […]
May 22, 2017
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Disparities
Report Shows Disparities in Care
Two new reports examining the quality of care received by Medicare Advantage enrollees reveal several nuances in the patient experience as reported by ethnic/racial group and gender, as well as “sizable differences” in the quality of treatment for certain conditions among MA beneficiaries, such as black and white men with rheumatoid arthritis, observes CMS. Health […]
May 22, 2017
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MARTHA SAUNDERS
MARTHA SAUNDERS has been named the sixth president of the University of West Florida (UWF). She was director of the university honors program and dean for the College of Arts and Sciences at UWF. She received a doctorate in communication theory and research from Florida State University, a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in French from the University of Southern Mississippi.
May 22, 2017
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GAIL F. BAKER
GAIL F. BAKER has been named University of San Diego’s provost and vice president of academic affairs. She currently serves as dean of the College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media and the executive associate to the chancellor at the University of Nebraska Omaha. She holds a doctorate in journalism from the University of Missouri Columbia.
May 22, 2017
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EDWARD B. MONTGOMERY
EDWARD B. MONTGOMERY will take over as Western Michigan University’s ninth president in August. A labor economist, Montgomery has held posts with the administrations of Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. He is a dean and professor of economics at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Pennsylvania State University and both master’s and doctoral degrees in economics from Harvard University.
May 22, 2017
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Students
Swygert: Loan Servicing Change Could Rock HBCUs
Any wrong turn, albeit well intentioned, could further jeopardize the fragile state of HBCUs, Dr. H. Patrick Sywgert warned a crowd of several hundred attendees this weekend at “The Grand Boule Forum on HBCUs.”
May 21, 2017
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Students
FAFSA Hacker Targeted Trump Tax Info
The person accused of a 2016 attempt to use a web-based FAFSA tool to illegally obtain taxpayer information is a longtime Louisiana-based private investigator who used the tool to target then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, court records obtained by Diverse show.
May 21, 2017
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Students
Department of Education Seeking Single Servicer for Student Loans
The Department of Education announced on Friday that it would offer a contract to a single servicer to administer federal students loans.
May 21, 2017
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Yale’s Snowflake Justice and Public Shaming of Yelping Dean Jean Chu
Since the Yale Daily News broke the story of the Yelping dean, she’s been subject to ridicule for her candid reviews of local restaurants.
May 21, 2017
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Students
Harvard Student Submits Rap Album as His Senior Thesis
BOSTON — While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his. Shaw is the first student in Harvard’s history to submit a rap album as a senior thesis in the English Department, the university said. The album, called “Liminal Minds,” has earned the equivalent of an […]
May 21, 2017
Students
‘New Life’ Initiative to Recruit American Indian Students
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota State University President Barry Dunn says he can see a future in which reservation hospitals and health centers across South Dakota employ pharmacists and lab scientists educated at his school, with doctors and administrators also trained at institutions in the state. The land-grant university is pursuing a new initiative […]
May 21, 2017
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