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Arkansas Program Trains Doctors for Rural Areas
In the next decade, the nation will face a shortage of primary care doctors. That will impact patients around the country, and it will be worse in rural regions that already find it hard to attract family physicians. To lessen that impact, a second Arkansas medical school opened in the state this fall, welcoming 120 […]
October 17, 2016
Disparities
School Hopes to Bring Telemedicine to Kentucky Mountains
HAZARD, Ky. — An eastern Kentucky community college is embracing the advances of telemedicine, a technology that allows health care professionals to see their patients from miles away. WYMT-TV reports that the Hazard Community and Technical College will in January begin offering a telemedicine technician assistant program. Program Director Shaun Neace says the concept of […]
October 17, 2016
Disparities
Getting Sugary Drinks Off the Table in Indian Country
Sugary-sweetened beverages are the single largest category of caloric intake in children. Their consumption has increased by 500 percent in the last 50 years, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Whether they be in the form of soft drinks, fruit drinks, sports drinks, energy drinks, sweetened milk or other alternatives, they are […]
October 17, 2016
Disparities
Helping Doctors Tackle Implicit Black Gay Male Bias
While the threat of HIV/AIDS has decreased significantly thanks to advances in antiretroviral therapy, treatment as prevention, and pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), black men who have sex with men (MSM) are still affected at a disproportionate rate. In February, the CDC released an eye-opening study which claimed at the current rate of infection, one in two […]
October 17, 2016
Disparities
NIH Awards 23andme a Grant to Address Disparities
The NIH awarded 23andMe a $1.7 million grant to develop a sequencing panel to address the underrepresentation of minorities, specifically African Americans, in health research. The company, which markets home genetic spit tests, will sequence the genomes of more than one million customers who have agreed to participate in research. It will create a sequencing […]
October 17, 2016
Disparities
Black Doctors Say They Singled Out for Sanctions
A group of Black doctors in Los Angeles and throughout California have been waging a long, valiant, and lonely fight against a practice which has had disastrous effects on the quality of medical care in poor, and underserved communities and harmful consequences for the doctors. The practice is medical racial profiling. This is a systematic […]
October 17, 2016
Students
Student Loan Debt for Graduates Up 4 Percent in 2015
When students graduated from college in 2014, those who borrowed money to pay for college owed an average of $28,950. Now the average debt is $30,100 — 4 percent higher — for those who graduated in 2015.
October 17, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Diverse Docket: Gender Bias Suit Against Meharry Medical College Dismissed
Meharry Medical College has won dismissal of a Title VII suit by a female instructor who alleged gender discrimination, hostile work environment and retaliation.
October 16, 2016
Students
Guillermo: Accused Students Get Rare Title IX Protection
In the ongoing fight against sexual misconduct on college campuses, those who simply advocate a just and fair system can claim a victory this week in Delaware.
October 16, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Subjectively Objective: Tenure and the Underrepresented Minority Faculty
Nearly half a century of research speaks to the microaggressively institutionalized practices that contribute to the lack of equitably tenured and promoted underrepresented minorities in academe.
October 16, 2016
Students
Host Colleges Winners in Presidential Debates
UNLV estimates that being selected as a venue for the final presidential debate has already generated $85 million worth of publicity.
October 16, 2016
Students
Muslim Woman Settles in at Vermont Military College
NORTHFIELD, Vt. ― Despite being the first woman allowed to wear a Muslim headscarf beneath her military uniform at the nation’s oldest private military college, Sana Hamze says she doesn’t feel like a pioneer. Her focus is on learning details of life as a “rook” at Vermont’s Norwich University, in the school’s Corps of Cadets […]
October 16, 2016
Students
Rolling Stone Heading to Trial Over Debunked Story of Rape
RICHMOND, Va. ― For the first time since Rolling Stone magazine’s shocking story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia hit shelves two years ago, the public may hear from the young woman at the center of the now discredited article “A Rape on Campus.” A defamation trial against the magazine is […]
October 16, 2016
STEM
Tulane Gets $11.4M, 5-year Grant for New Research Institute
NEW ORLEANS ―The National Institutes of Health is giving Tulane University $11.4 over the next five years to get more scientists studying ways to help patients with high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes and related conditions. Epidemiology professor Jiang He is using the grant to start an institute aimed at taking lab research into those chronic […]
October 16, 2016
Students
Black Lives Matter Homecoming Float Vandalized in Idaho
BOISE, Idaho ― Boise State University’s president says a homecoming float dedicated to the Black Lives Matter movement has been vandalized. Bob Kustra released a statement early Sunday morning condemning both the vandals and the attempt to silence constitutionally protected free speech. Kustra added that the school’s security team is investigating the issue, but he […]
October 16, 2016
Students
South African Police Arrest Student Protest Leader
JOHANNESBURG ― South African police raided a university student residence in Johannesburg early Sunday, arresting a leader of sometimes violent protests for free education who caused an outcry last year when he declared admiration for Adolf Hitler. The arrest of Mcebo Dlamini, a former student council president at the University of the Witwatersrand, followed recent […]
October 16, 2016
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Hiring warriors in higher ed
Like many employers, higher ed institutions are reaching out to military veterans to fill skilled positions. Military service offers rich opportunities for individuals to develop a wide variety of skills that translate to well-paying jobs in the civilian world. However, deciphering a veteran’s work history is tricky. Resumes may be cluttered with military jargon, acronyms […]
October 14, 2016
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Hiring warriors in higher ed
Like many employers, higher ed institutions are reaching out to military veterans to fill skilled positions. Military service offers rich opportunities for individuals to develop a wide variety of skills that translate to well-paying jobs in the civilian world.
October 14, 2016
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