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Diverse Conversations: Can Income Diversity Replace Affirmative Action?
Harold O. Levy, executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, writes for The Hill that the best way to keep diverse populations on campuses is to put income diversity programs in place.
July 28, 2016
Faculty & Staff
The High Price of Pregnancy While on the Academic Job Market
Although a woman who is currently employed and becomes pregnant has (limited) legal protections afforded to her in the form of FMLA, there is little protection for a woman searching for a job while pregnant.
July 28, 2016
African-American
Black Scholars Take Issue with Obama on Police Encounters
President Obama suggested that Hillary Clinton is the best candidate in the 2016 presidential race because she knows “the worry Black parents feel when their son leaves the house isn’t so different than what a brave cop’s family feels when he puts on the blue and goes to work.”
July 28, 2016
Leadership & Policy
University of Louisville Accepts President James Ramsey’s Resignation
LOUISVILLE, Ky. ― University of Louisville trustees accepted the resignation of embattled President James Ramsey, whose long tenure was dogged by scandal. The action at a special meeting of the school’s board signaled the end of an era. Ramsey, a former state budget director, has led the university for 14 years. After six hours of […]
July 28, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
The CDC Says Doctors Should Screen More Pregnant Women for Zika
Doctors in the U.S. should proactively screen at-risk pregnant women for the Zika virus, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. “All pregnant women in the United States and U.S. territories should be assessed for possible Zika virus exposure at each prenatal care visit,” reads a new memo the CDC released on Monday. […]
July 28, 2016
Other News
UN-backed AIDS conference closes with calls to end discrimination, bolster HIV care, support
As the 21st International AIDS Conference wrapped up in Durban, South Africa, the Deputy Executive Director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS (UNAIDS), Luiz Loures, called for ending discrimination against patients, especially those from the most vulnerable populations. “The Durban conference was marked by the phenomenal progress made over the last […]
July 28, 2016
Other News
Ice Bucket Challenge credited with ALS breakthrough
(Reuters) – The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease, researchers say. The challenge involved people pouring ice-cold water over their heads, posting video on social media, and donating funds for research […]
July 28, 2016
Policies
Video: Jailers Restrained Inmate by Neck
OKLAHOMA CITY — The Caddo County Sheriff’s Office released video of an April incident in which an Oklahoma inmate was restrained by jail staff and died of strangulation. In the video obtained by The Oklahoman newspaper Monday, Darius Robinson, 41, appears to lunge toward jail staff before being tackled to the floor at Caddo County […]
July 28, 2016
Other News
NIH: $4 million for local partnership to help deaf postdocs
A local partnership to help advance research and teaching skills for deaf and hard-of hearing postdoctoral students got a big boost with the National Institutes of Health awarding a $4 million grant to this initiative. The funding goes to the Rochester Postdoc Partnership, which has served as a national model. Deaf and hard-of-hearing individuals who […]
July 28, 2016
Nursing
Nurse Shares Rape Facts with Team
WACO, Texas — A woman who said she was raped by two Oregon State football players and two other men in 1998 shared her story with the Baylor football team. Brenda Tracy’s talk with the Bears came two months after a 13-page report said Baylor failed to properly handle accusations of sexual assault, including some […]
July 28, 2016
Policies
House Panel Wants Shooter’s Medical Record
ST. MARYS, Kan. —The chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Veterans Affairs has requested all VA medical records for the former Marine who killed three law-enforcement officers in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Florida Rep. Jeff Miller sent a letter dated July 21 to the Department of Veterans Affairs requesting records for Gavin Long, an Iraq […]
July 28, 2016
Health
University of Pittsburgh Hospital Network Paying $2.5M to Settle Overbilling Claims
PITTSBURGH ― The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center has paid $2.5 million to settle some claims in a federal whistleblower lawsuit accusing the hospital network of overbilling government insurance programs for neurosurgery. UPMC, Pennsylvania’s largest private employer with 60,000 workers, didn’t acknowledge wrongdoing in the settlement announced Wednesday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Pittsburgh. […]
July 27, 2016
Faculty & Staff
Johns Hopkins to Offer Dozens of Employees $36K to Buy Homes
BALTIMORE ― Johns Hopkins University is offering dozens of its full-time employees $36,000 grants toward buying a house near its east Baltimore medical campus. Andy Frank, special adviser to the university’s president, says the grants, paid for by the school’s “Live Near York Work” program, are part of a larger effort to bring new life […]
July 27, 2016
Students
University of Michigan Pays $165,000 to Ex-student who was Dismissed
DETROIT ― The University of Michigan agreed to pay $165,000 to settle what was left of a lawsuit over a graduate student’s dismissal from an engineering program in 2011. The school struck a deal with Jennifer Dibbern shortly before a June trial and after a federal judge dismissed most claims. She had accused the university […]
July 27, 2016
Students
CEO of Harvard’s $37B Endowment Resigns for Personal Reasons
CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts ― The chief of Harvard University’s $37 billion endowment is resigning after less than two years at the helm. Harvard Management Company, the university’s investment arm, announced on Wednesday that President and CEO Stephen Blyth will resign immediately for unspecified personal reasons. He started the job in 2015. Blyth took a medical leave […]
July 27, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Board of Metropolitan Community College Asks Chairman to Quit
OMAHA, Neb. ― The board of a community college in Omaha has voted to ask its chairman to resign. The Metropolitan Community College Board of Governors voted 6-4 Tuesday night to ask Fred Conley to resign from his position as chairman of the board, the Omaha World-Herald reported. “His resignation is absolutely necessary to protect […]
July 27, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Arkansas Baptist College Names Joseph L. Jones President
Dr. Joseph L. Jones, a political scientist, has been tapped as the next president of Arkansas Baptist College — a small, private historically Black college located in Little Rock.
July 27, 2016
Students
Diverse Docket: Professor’s Bias Suit Against John Jay College Rejected
A federal judge has rejected a race discrimination and retaliation suit by an African-American assistant professor of economics who failed to win tenure and promotion at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
July 27, 2016
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