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Nearly 50 University of Massachusetts Amherst Students Hospitalized After Trending Drinking Challenge

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly 50 students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were hospitalized this past weekend after engaging in a drinking challenge popular on social media platform TikTok, CBS News reported.

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Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro Government Form Agreement to House Nashville General Hospital

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Meharry Medical College and Nashville Metro government have come to an agreement that will give millions of dollars to the college for housing Nashville General Hospital, The Tennessean r eported. million in rent this year to house the hospital, with costs increasing by 2.5%

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Community College of Vermont and Hospital Pay Students to Take Classes

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The hospital received two tranches of money: one to expand their childcare center and one to increase the center’s staffing.

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Onondaga Community College to Receive $2 Million to Improve Hospital Simulation Center to Train Nurses and Technicians

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Onondaga Community College will receive $2 million to renovate and expand a hospital simulation center to train nurses and technicians amid staffing shortages at Central New York hospitals, Syracuse.com reported.

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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.

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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. Athletic Director Pete Gnan sent a letter to parents explaining what happened after a late-December trip to California, where the team played two games.

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ANNE EDWARDS

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Edwards earned a bachelor’s degree in hospitality and tourism management at Purdue University. Anne Edwards Anne Edwards has been named director of the Black Cultural Center at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Ind.

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ANDREA A. HAYES DIXON

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Hayes Dixon was the surgeon-in-chief and division chief of pediatric surgery at the University of North Carolina Children’s Hospital. Andrea A. Hayes Dixon Andrea A. Hayes Dixon has been appointed dean of the Howard University College of Medicine.

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Howard University President Wayne A.I. Frederick on creating real, lasting diversity in corporate America

University Business

He is also a practicing cancer surgeon at Howard University Hospital, where he continues to see patients and perform surgeries. Wayne A.I. Frederick is the 17th president of Howard University, one of 107 historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S.,

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University of Dayton to Launch Health Equity Fellows Program for Underrepresented Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The University of Dayton (UDayton) will launch a fellowship program to provide paid internships, mentoring, and professional development to underrepresented students from the Dayton region.

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Study: Racial Wealth Gap Leads to Shorter Life Expectancy for Black Americans

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Our findings add to the compelling moral case for reparations,” said Dr. Kathryn Himmelstein, study co-author and infectious disease fellow at Harvard's Massachusetts General and Brigham and Women's Hospitals.

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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]. Several New Jersey public colleges and research universities can apply for mental health services funding from the state, NorthJersey.com reported.

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Endpoint Detection and Response Solutions Spot University Security Threats

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Although the attackers were focused on crypto mining, they achieved network access that could have allowed them to pivot to a ransomware attack against the university’s system of hospitals and clinics.

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Vassar President Dr. Elizabeth Bradley Awarded a 2023 Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal for Scholarly Work in Public Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Elizabeth 'Betsy' Bradley She is lauded for her efforts in hospital care quality and large-scale health system strengthening in the U.S.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

With health services management they can work as managers in hospitals and in enhancing healthcare access. Even in the assessments of patients in a hospital or clinic, it’s important to look at all factors relevant to patient care.

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Kansas Senate, House invite author who asserts critical race theory fosters discrimination -TIM CARPENTER, Kansas Reflector

Ray Schroeder

A controversial physician and author urged the Kansas Legislature to ban hospitals and medical schools from compelling students and employees to pledge allegiance to critical race theory, affirmative action and diversity, equity and inclusion programs.

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University of Iowa student falls from six-floor residence hall window

University Business

A University of Iowa student has been hospitalized after falling out of a sixth-floor window at Mayflower Residence Hall early Thursday. UI police were called to Mayflower, 1110 North Dubuque St., at 4:22 a.m.

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What is a crofter, and why our staff and students should know…

Teaching Matters Student Employment

Patrick is Professor of Veterinary Surgery and Remote and Rural Medicine and Director of the Dick Vet Equine Hospital in Practice. In this extra post, Patrick Pollock explores the practice of ‘crofting’, and its place in the current veterinary recruitment crisis.

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An Unlikely Pairing - Josh Moody, Inside Higher Ed

Ray Schroeder

Hilbert officials and outside experts believe the merger marks the first time that a nonprofit religious institution has purchased a for-profit college, though they note parallels in the health-care sector, where Catholic hospitals have merged with or acquired nonreligious competitors. Hilbert College, a nonprofit Catholic institution in New York, is purchasing for-profit Valley College, which has four sites in Ohio and West Virginia. That makes for an unusual match.

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Humanity in Healthcare Emphasized in Youth Career Pathways Partnership

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She was taken to the hospital by the paramedics, and we weren’t allowed to go with her as it was still during one of the heights of the COVID-19 pandemic. On January 7, 2021, my Mom, Vanessa Bright, suffered a stroke in the kitchen of her home while my Dad and I were there.

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Casino project opposed By Hofstra, supported by others

Confessions of a Community College Dean

No deal has been reached involving the Sands giving the college money to support academic or training programs related to hospitality industry jobs, Kornbluth said. Image: A push by the deep-pocketed Las Vegas Sands Corporation to build a casino and entertainment complex in Long Island, N.Y.,

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In January, nurses from two of New York City’s private hospitals went on strike. Those who want to continue bedside care look to expand their roles and improve nursing processes in hospital settings.

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Dr. Roberta Waite

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Waite serves as a board director for corporate Trinity Health (a leading, national, multi-institutional Catholic health care delivery system in 22 states with 93 hospitals and 120 continuing care locations including home care, hospice, PACE, and senior living facilities), the American Professional Society of ADHD and Related Disorders and Family Process Institute.

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Native American Studies Programs Struggle to Recover from COVID-19 Pandemic

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The CDC also reported in September that the AIAN population was at higher risk during the pandemic for COVID-19 infection, hospitalization, and death than other racial and ethnic groups. Brady DeSanti Recent data from the U.S.

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Australian Stripping Small Pacific Countries of Skilled Workers

Higher Education Whisperer

The ABC reported "Pacific hospitals suffer nursing shortage as workers leave for Australia's labour scheme" (ABC Radio, 22 November 2022). An issue raised at the the Pacific Security Cooperation Workshop hosted at ANU in Canberra just now was Australia attracting highly trained staff from small pacific nations. This issue was taken up by other delegates at the workshop. Perhaps an ethical. ANU College of Asia & the Pacific indo-pacific Pacific Security Cooperation Workshop

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Man Set on Fire at Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The Berkeleyside report described fire officials as saying the man had second- and third-degree burns and was taken to an Oakland hospital Wednesday afternoon. A man who set himself ablaze on the University of California, Berkeley, campus last week received aid from bystanders who sustained minor burns, the news site Berkeleyside reported.

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Answering the Call

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

A number of Howard PharmD graduates pursue work in community pharmacies, but others are in hospitals and ambulatory care settings. While still fighting for official provider status, pharmacists have proven to be crucial in delivering care and helping address healthcare disparities.

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Call for Annual Conference Volunteers

NACADA

There are opportunities to assist with the Concurrent Sessions, and “Volunteer Central”, which includes the Hospitality, Conference Evaluations, and Volunteer Check-in areas. [Design by Mykyta via Adobe Stock ].

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Man Who Threatened UCLA Is Found Unfit for Trial

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The judge ordered that Harris be hospitalized. A former postdoc at the University of California, Los Angeles, who was charged last year with sending an 803-page manifesto in which he threatened a mass shooting at UCLA as well as killing individual faculty members has been found by a judge to not be capable of standing trial, the Los Angeles Times reported.

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Recruiting Retired Nurses

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Nurses have retired at an accelerated rate, I’m told, and some hospitals are really struggling to fill the gaps. Teaching is a skill in itself, and there’s no shortage of quirky legalisms in higher ed that can be very different from those on a hospital floor. For the retiring nurses, it would be a way to continue to earn an income after leaving the hospital. And for hospitals, it would reinforce the pipeline of new nurses entering the field.

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3 James Madison Students Killed in Car Crash

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Two other students suffered injuries and were hospitalized. Three students at James Madison University, in Virginia, were killed when their car veered off a road in West Virginia and struck a tree last week, The Washington Post reported. All of the students involved were 19. “The loss our community has felt today is unthinkable,” President Jonathan Alger and other university officials said in a statement Friday.

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Pilot, engineer, neuroscientist, bridge-builder

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Annie Dunlap, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics | Publication Date: March 9, 2023 How Elissa Gibson ’22 connected the dots to form her own unique constellation of MIT experiences.

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Seeking Solutions to Strengthen Career Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

JaNice Marshall is a teaching professor and doctoral cohort coordinator for Kansas State University’s John E. Roueche Center for Community College Leadership. Today, some of our country’s communities are engaged in conversations about talent pipeline shortages, challenges, and opportunities.

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Getting Around in Portland

NACADA

Please be sure to stop by the conference hospitality desk for any up to date information on any local road closures. . When Arriving in Portland.

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Man Who Threatened UCLA Is Found Unfit for Trial

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The judge ordered that Harris be hospitalized.

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Considering the Future of Academic Conferences

Robert Kelchen

With inflation at the highest level in my lifetime and travel and hospitality costs rising particularly quickly, the cost of traveling to a conference has risen sharply over the last year. One of the defining features of life in higher education for full-time faculty, administrators, and graduate students has been the academic conference.

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Congrats to the Prize Winners from the 2023 Spring Study and Go Abroad Fairs!

Study and Go Abroad

Sania has experience in pharmacy, and is currently a physical therapy volunteer , working with dementia patients in an Oakville-area hospital. Aaron E. won the $250 Apple Gift Card from the Spring Madness contest, and Sania K. won the grand prize: a round-trip flight on Air Canada!

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Yale students sue the university for ‘systemic discrimination’

University Business

According to the lawsuit, the students alleged that the administration pressured them to withdraw on their own account after they had been admitted to the hospital for attempted suicide and other mental health issues.

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Safety update and reminder

The Student Affairs Blog

The two students were injured and went to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries. They have both been released from the hospital and are recovering. Dear students, Yesterday evening, Sept, 5, the Richmond Police Department responded to an off-campus incident that involved two VCU students. The students were near a large gathering of people on Laurel Street when shots were fired. The Richmond Police Department is investigating the incident with assistance from VCU Police.

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The Catalysts for Competency-Based Learning and Prior Learning Assessments Have Arrived

eLiterate

And some people add to the congestion in overburdened hospital emergency departments. One hospital closed its emergency room for a month and is not sure if it will be able to run a full emergency room in the future.

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Gunman kills three, injures five at Michigan State

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The shooter also injured five students, all of whom were listed in critical condition at a local hospital. Image: A gunman shot and killed three students at Michigan State University Monday night.

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BCG is hiring Advanced Degree Candidates!

CAPD

Bridge to BCG is open to candidates with the below degrees attending or associated with a US or Canadian school or hospital. BCG is hiring advanced degree candidates, aka ADCs (PhDs, postdocs, MDs, JDs, residents, practicing physicians).

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Setting the Tone in DEI, Accessibility Work

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Many of the students in Davis’ program currently work in hospitals or other healthcare settings. “We Following up plans for educational access and equity with actions has become the hallmark of Grand Valley State University, which has a statewide presence in Michigan.

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