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News Roundup
Dr. James A. Banks, ‘The Father of Multicultural Education’ To Retire After 50 Years
Dr. James A. Banks, the first Black professor hired by the University of Washington (UW) College of Education, has announced he will retire from his position after teaching at the university for 50 years. Banks, who is known around the world for pioneering the field of multicultural education, first joined the UW faculty in 1969, […]
December 11, 2018
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Brief Offers Policy Recommendations to Address Unmet Financial Need
A new brief from the Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) finds that nearly three in four students experience unmet need, making this problem around college affordability a nearly “universal phenomenon” among today’s students.
December 10, 2018
Disparities
Accepting Alzheimer’s, One Lost Memory at a Time
With a slow moving disease like Alzheimer’s, there’s still time for doubt. Perhaps the diagnosis is wrong and the memory holes and struggle for words are just normal aging. Deep in your psyche, there’s still a little spark of hope. Read More
December 10, 2018
Policies
Kaiser Permanente strike: 4,000 mental health workers begin 5-day strike
Four thousand Kaiser Permanente mental health workers began a five-day strike on Monday amid an ongoing labor dispute. The dispute surrounds under-staffing issues at Kaiser facilities, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers. The union says the staffing problem forces patients to wait a month or more for therapy appointments. Read More
December 10, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
The truth about Medicare for all
Like a cheap sweater that can be pulled apart by tugging at a thread, Obamacare is in tatters. Soaring costs of premiums coupled with outrageous deductible hikes have made things worse, not better. All this was predictable. Despite being less than a decade old, the law has clearly failed. The cost of health care did […]
December 10, 2018
Disparities
Loma Linda University School of Public Health Study Finds Railyard…
Loma Linda University School of Public Health researchers released the first study assessing all 18 major freight railyards in California and found a link with freight-railyard pollution to asthma-related emergency room visits in children. The study was recently published in Preventive Medicine Reports. This large-scale railyard study is a follow-up to the i nitial study […]
December 10, 2018
Disparities
University Health CEO resigns amid bacterial outbreak
University Hospital President and CEO John Kastanis resigned Thursday amid a deadly bacterial outbreak at the hospital’s neonatal intensive-care unit. Four premature babies in the neonatal ICU have contracted the Acinetobacter baumannii bacteria since September, three of whom died, according to public health officials. Read More
December 10, 2018
Students
Report: Is Guaranteed Admissions Effective in Developing Diverse Class?
In a recent study published by the American Educational Research Association, researchers evaluated whether admissions certainty for Texas high school graduates has different effects on high- and low-income students.
December 10, 2018
Leadership & Policy
Herman J. Felton Jr. Earns Ph.D. from Jackson State University
Dr. Herman James Felton Jr., who grew up in poverty and with dyslexia, beat all odds and earned a Ph.D. from Jackson State University and has become one of the youngest presidents of a historically Black college and university (HBCU). His story from poverty to college president was chronicled in the Clarion Ledger. Felton was the […]
December 10, 2018
News Roundup
UNC Faculty Demand Involvement in ‘Silent Sam’s’ Future, Teaching Assistants Promise Strike
On Friday, the University of North Carolina (UNC) Faculty Council called for university system leaders to drop a plan to have the ‘Silent Sam’ statue on the Chapel Hill campus and requested that a faculty committee be involved with the statue’s future plans. The meeting came after a strike involving more than 79 UNC instructors […]
December 10, 2018
Other News
Indiana State University student group proposes $75 mental health fee
Most Indiana State University students would pay a $75 per semester fee for increased mental health services in the future under a proposal from the Student Government Association. Association President Stephen Lamb says demand for mental health services is increasing and students now generally must wait weeks to see counselors. Read More
December 10, 2018
Other News
CCPH deals with a changing mental health landscape on college campuses
Discussions of mental health diagnoses and treatment have increased in recent years, particularly on college campuses. At the University of Massachusetts, this upward trend has increased scrutiny of the campus’ Center for Counseling and Psychological Health. In a press release from the American Psychiatric Association, more than one-third of students reported a diagnosed condition in […]
December 10, 2018
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Top 100 Associate Degree Producers
Diverse presents the Top 100 Associate Degree Producers.
December 10, 2018
News Roundup
PGCC’s Academy of Health Sciences Receives Highest Rating on MD School Report Card
The Academy of Health Sciences (AHS) at Prince George’s Community College (PGCC) recently received a five-star rating on the Maryland State Department of Education 2018-19 Maryland School Report Card, making it the only high school in the county to do so. AHS was established seven years ago as a partnership between PGCC and Prince George’s […]
December 10, 2018
News Roundup
Senegal Opens Museum of Black Civilizations, Devoted to ‘Decolonizing African Knowledge’
After being first proposed by former Senegal president Léopold Sédar Senghor 52 years ago, the country has opened the Museum of Black Civilizations, one of the largest museums of its kind in the world. The building is similar in size to the National Museum of African American History in Washington, D.C., with 14,000 square meters […]
December 10, 2018
News Roundup
Chicago Historian Timuel Black Turns 100
Timuel “Tim” D. Black, a Chicago historian who survived the Great Depression and worked on the front lines during World War II, turned 100 years old over the weekend. Black has lived in Chicago since he was an infant, growing up in a neighborhood that was then called the “Black Belt”, according to ABC7. Black’s […]
December 10, 2018
Opinion
The Removal of ‘Individual 1’?
The political climate is changing. After Friday, temperatures are rising higher and the leading denier, of course, is Donald Trump, who after last week’s bombshells could only turn to social media.
December 10, 2018
International
Naming Rights
I’ve thought a lot about this seemingly simple act of reading names at Commencement. Mostly I’ve thought that this ritual is far from simple: it punctuates one of the most complex learning experiences of college — figuring out who you are and what that who will be called. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes this powerful marker of human identity and human dignity. By signing on to this agreement (as have nearly 200 countries have) states must act in the best interests of children by complying with basic rights, including, vitally, the right to their own name and identity from birth.
December 10, 2018
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