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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. These jobs may be in hospitals as well as in local health departments or nonprofit organizations.

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Profiling Some of the Institutions With the Most Minority Business Graduates

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

While there are many undergraduates and graduate students aiming for careers in banking or finance, there are also entrepreneurs, innovators, people interested in hospital administration, and others seeking positions at nonprofit organizations.

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Journalism schools could help save local papers (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

The paper can operate in the teaching hospital model—a not-for-profit reinvented to serve the community as both an independent news source and an education laboratory. The teaching hospital model applied to journalism is a longtime ideal promoted by Eric Newton , former senior adviser at the John S. and James L.

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A Continued Commitment to Community

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Created in 2005 by Excelencia in Education, Examples of Excelencia is a national initiative that recognizes institutions and nonprofit organizations that identify, aggregate, and promote evidence-based practices that improve Latinx student access in higher education.

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Should conferences stay put or relocate? It's complicated.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

He said the organization’s Board of Directors made the decision, approving use of a “rainy day fund” to cover the possible cancellation costs. The finances of such member organizations can often revolve around good turnout to an annual conference. million in conference revenue, more than twice the $2.1

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Should 25 Years Feel Like Forever or Only Yesterday?

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Side by side with her daughter, she now leads a nonprofit organization in Forest, Mississippi, promoting the legacy of her parents. In Mama Olivia’s final hours while I was working my way through college as a newspaper reporter, I called the hospital to check on her, and Connie relayed my final message to her.

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Amid pushback, U.S. delays guidance on outsourcing

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” They marveled at just how many companies, nonprofit organizations and even state government entities could be caught up in the much wider net. Some described them as “collateral damage” in the administration’s pursuit of OPMs. “Innovation will be stifled.”