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Leading with Purpose: AABHE’s President Charts Path for Black Excellence

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Dr. Shewanee Howard-Baptiste After a tough love encounter with science and biology courses, she realized the medical field wasnt her calling. Her pivot from medical school aspirations to a career in health education is now a lesson she shares with young people: life is a journey, not a checklist. in educational leadership.

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First Arrest Made in Southern University Hazing Death

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Rather than calling emergency services, fraternity members later transported Wilson to Baton Rouge General Medical Center, where they allegedly provided false information, claiming Wilson had collapsed while playing basketball. Following the punches, Wilson appeared to suffer a seizure and collapsed. He was pronounced dead at the hospital.

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Student Success in STEM

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Positions such as data scientists, medical and health service managers, physician assistants, and epidemiologists highlight the immense potential need for students entering these fields. However, disparities in STEM degree attainment reflect systemic barriers that hinder progress.

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Transparent Lab Report Templates Affect Scientific Success

The Scholarly Teacher

Then, from an instructor's perspective, the rubric allows them to provide general feedback that minimizes assessment bias through the standard rubric form while also having the freedom and time to tailor specific feedback about a particular lab or for a unique student as learning needs are recognized (Feldman, 2018). Cornell College.

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Study: Number of Surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian Children Lower Than on White Children

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

according to a University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center (UTSW) study. The study looked at surgery data for more than 200,000 children from the 1999-2018 National Health Interview Surveys. There are fewer surgeries on Black, Latino, and Asian children than on white children in the U.S.,

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Here are the 5 academic programs emerging in 2025

University Business

Job postings in the aerospace and defense industry grew by 9% from 2023-24, and new enrollment in space engineering increased by 5% from the 2018-19 academic year to 2023-24. Areas that can be improved are drug discovery and development, medical imaging and diagnostics, robotics and patient care.

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For the Common Good

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Programming Capella University, which delivers most of its educational content online, launched its bachelor’s degree program in public health in 2018. “This will increase the underrepresented population within public health,” adds Gunther, chair of Sacred Heart’s Health Sciences Department.