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On a Mission: Damon L. Williams Jr., Takes on the World

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

In 2009, he returned to his undergraduate alma mater, Xavier University in New Orleans, an HBCU and the only Black Catholic institution in the world. Dunn chose to attend Xavier as an undergraduate with hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Williams took a pay cut leaving the corporate world, but he knew it was worth it.

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Doing What’s Right

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is also the founding chairperson of the department of surgery and the first associate dean for post-graduate medical education at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. CBEC, inaugurated in 2004, is the only bioethics center specific in its focus on bioethics research and education in Pakistan, according to Moazam. In the U.S.,

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Health Equity, Working to Identify Effective Policy Interventions

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My Hung is assistant professor of health services policy and management in the University of South Carolina’s (USC) Arnold School of Public Health. She has spent the better part of 14 years in this field. Hung earned her Ph.D.

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A Commitment to Community Health

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

And it is for this dedicated, consistent, long-standing work that the All of Us Research Program from University of Arizona and Banner Health honored Carbajal, naming her the September/October Arizona Health Champion during National Hispanic Heritage Month this year. Do you give them the medical information and then walk away?

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Welcome to the October issue of Teaching Matters: Research-led teaching and learning

Teaching Matters Student Engagement

Research-led teaching and learning This month, I have found defining research-led teaching and learning quite tricky as there seem to be a few interpretations of what it means in HE. Conversely, integrating research and teaching can be immensely rewarding for academics.

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Mental Health and Learning Among Students with Marginalized Sociodemographic Identities

Supporting Student Success

My research seeks to understand disparities in mental health outcomes among students with marginalized sociodemographic identities in Canada, and the relationship between mental health and learning with marginalized communities. 2009; Kirmayer et al., Research Findings. Conceptual Model Summarizing Research Findings.

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How Can We Bring Many More Students to Math, Data and Statistical Literacy?

Confessions of a Community College Dean

” Among the criticisms : That the report lacked sound research to support its claim that its approach will advance equity. According to one often-reported statistic from 2009, 17 percent of the general population has high levels of anxiety involving mathematics.