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Community College of Vermont and Hospital Pay Students to Take Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The money for the program comes from congressionally directed funds that the SVMC received through the Health Resources and Services Administration. The hospital received two tranches of money: one to expand their childcare center and one to increase the center’s staffing. CCV and SVMC anticipate funding 8-10 applicants.

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Coach Removed After 5 Players Hospitalized

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Concordia University Chicago in River Forest has temporarily removed the coach of its men’s basketball team Steve Kollar, after five players were hospitalized, CBS News reported. Some of the players were hospitalized for only a few hours, but for others it was a few days. Ad keywords: administrators Is this diversity newsletter?:

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What Higher Education Can Learn from a Public Charity Hospital

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The most hopeful, powerful, and empowering antidote to such cynicism and negativism can be found in Ricardo Nuila’s stunning debut study of Houston’s publicly funded Ben Taub county hospital, the safety net for the Houston’s indigent, uninsured, and undocumented. It was also because it was a teaching hospital.

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LOIS V. GREENE

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Greene has been appointed senior vice president of wellness, diversity, equity, and inclusion at University Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, an academic medical center operated by Rutgers University.

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Rutgers Plan to Merge Medical Schools Met with Pushback

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A merger would give medical students experience in a university hospital, private hospital, and safety net hospital, with access to more clinical clerkships, electives, and patient experiences without current administrative barriers, said Dr. Brian Strom, chancellor of Rutgers Biomedical and Health Sciences.

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Many New Jersey Colleges Eligible to Apply for Mental Health Services Funding from State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I believe every school, hospital and private therapist out there did [see an uptick]. Phil Murphy’s administration. State agencies and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke of a mental health emergency among youth and schoolchildren in 2020, citing steadily rising rates of suicide from 2010-2020. “I

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Examples of possible careers in the field include nursing home administrators and health quality managers, according to Ongeri. With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access. These jobs may be in hospitals as well as in local health departments or nonprofit organizations.