Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

AUGUST 16, 2023

For the first time in nearly 50 years, the number of Black medical schools in the country is growing. The fourth and newest, an independent four-year medical program at the Charles R. CDU joins Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee, the Howard University College of Medicine in Washington, D.C., Dr. John W.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The 15 schools make up one cohort – of seven – that is part of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s (HHMI) $60 million Inclusive Excellence 3 (IE3) initiative, which asks schools to substantially and sustainably capacity-build towards student belonging, especially for those historically excluded from the sciences.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Awaiting them in the program are two tracks: one on the science of cannabis and the other on the social justice and policy around cannabis. I think my mouth unhinged,” she said.

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Confessions of a Community College Dean

JANUARY 13, 2023

plans to break a long-standing tradition of only hiring Christian instructors by opening some faculty positions to Jewish candidates. University leaders recently announced they’re specifically recruiting Jewish faculty members to teach in three of its graduate programs, hopefully as early as this spring.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Health inequity is the social justice issue of our time.” Understanding the social justice component, four professors at Sacred Heart University — Drs. “We’re diversifying the healthcare workforce. The more diversity you have in the healthcare workforce, the better access you’re going to have for patients.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

It’s an online module that we released earlier this year to all our faculty and staff as required training. It was also incorporated into all our new employee/new faculty orientations. There was a recommendation to have focus groups beginning this fall with diverse populations of staff, faculty, and students to capture their stories.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

of full-time nursing school faculty are minoritized, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. It’s a lot of mental [acrobatics] that go on, I’ll tell you that,” says Mamie Williams, senior director for nurse diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). 14-18 at Vanderbilt.

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