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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

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

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

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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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Open Educational Resources Paying Off for Some Colleges

A growing number of colleges are turning to open educational resources (OER) in an effort to relieve some financial stress for students.

July 27, 2016

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STEM

STEM stakeholders work to reach students early

July 27, 2016

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Illinois Making Strides Toward Reforming Remedial Education

The community college system in Illinois is making progress toward reducing the number of students going into remedial education.

July 26, 2016

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Campus Climate, Job Security Priority Among Many Young Voters

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, strained race relations on college campuses are high on young voters’ list of concerns.

July 26, 2016

Campus Climate, Job Security Priority Among Many Young Voters

On the second day of the Democratic National Convention, strained race relations on college campuses are high on young voters’ list of concerns.

July 26, 2016

ED Cuts off Financial Aid to Three MedTech College Campuses

The U.S. Department of Education announced Tuesday that it’s cutting financial aid for three MedTech College campuses due to misrepresentation about job placement rates.

July 26, 2016

Skills of a 21st Century Leader

It seems as though challenges, uncertainty, tragedies and economic downturns are taking hold of the world on a daily basis.

July 26, 2016

Ghostbusters needed to show that black women can be scientists too

When the Ghostbusters reboot was announced, it was hailed as a victory for feminism. The film stars Leslie Jones, Kate McKinnon, Kristen Wiig and Melissa McCarthy as four women who save the world from an onslaught of ghosts, and I enjoyed it when I saw it. But it bothered me that while all the white […]

July 26, 2016

Medical schools must play a role in addressing racial disparities

In the wake of the brutal killings of Alton Sterling, Philando Castille, Delrawn Small, and police officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge, America is confronting how its long history of racial injustice continues into the present. We must all address these wounds, including those of us in medicine. As medical students soon to be entrusted […]

July 26, 2016

Working long hours raises women’s risk of cancer, heart disease: study

Columbus, OH – Women who work long hours for most of their career are at a higher risk of developing cancer, heart disease and other chronic diseases, according to a study from Ohio State University. As part of the study, researchers used data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 to examine 7,500 people […]

July 26, 2016

News from research organizations Increased prevalence of lupus in Non-Europeans has a genetic basis

Non-Europeans have a higher frequency of the gene variants that increase the risk of lupus as compared to the European population, a new study from researchers at the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Biomedical Research Centre at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and King’s College London, has confirmed. The findings, which are published today in […]

July 26, 2016