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Morehouse School of Medicine Looks to Disrupt Health Inequities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Health equity is something MSM leaders, faculty members, and students work toward every day. Valerie Montgomery Rice and other experts are excited about the $2 million donation from the Croel Family Foundation for the development of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute at the school. “As

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Pride in the Halls

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The joy has now turned to sadness as a new law in Texas has dismantled diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) offices and programs at publicly funded universities. A 2022 report from the UCLA School of Law Williams Institute and the Point Foundation, an LGBTQ scholarship fund, noted that 32.6% of non-LGBTQ people. About 45.5%

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How the “next phase” of LGBTQ+ student support is stirring at this Ivy League

University Business

The University of Pennsylvania’s Eidos LGBTQ+ Health initiative invites its schools, colleges and even third-party telehealth companies to address the current cultural gaps in healthcare that preclude its professionals from adequately caring for a growing demographic of the U.S. population. For every $100 awarded by U.S.

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Fox Transitions From 20-Year Transformational Career

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Among her many achievements during her 20 years at the university are overseeing the transition from a women’s college to a co-ed university and launching a new college for healthcare professionals. It was really to lift up, determine where investment was needed, begin to raise funds to do that.

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The Power of Recognizing Higher Ed Faculty as Working-Class (Helena Worthen*)

Higher Education Inquirer

Nearly 75% of faculty in higher education are precarious workers, more like restaurant and hospitality workers, gig performers, contract healthcare workers, and delivery drivers than the tenured professor. Many contingent faculty are shocked to realize that college teaching is a working-class job.

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Education Department faces calls to rescind outsourcing guidance

Confessions of a Community College Dean

institutions wouldn’t be able to partner with foreign universities or offer workforce development programs if they include placement at a foreign-owned organization. ” Other universities raised concerns about whether their current contracts for learning management systems would be allowed under the new guidance.

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Why Quality & Rigor Matter In Dual Enrollment

Parchment

And so they need to be at the table for federal and state policy conversations as the folks that are often tasked to implement those policies to kind of ground truth and make sure that what is developed makes sense, moves objectives forward in a way that is thoughtful and manageable for the field. How do I do this to ensure that rigor?