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Community College Teams Up with For-Profit for Medical Assistant Program

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

They do everything from handling patient records and insurance forms to obtaining vital signs, drawing blood, and administering electrocardiograms. A rare partnership between a group of community colleges and a private, for-profit institution is aiming to fix that. Eight were first-generation, and eight were students of color.

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Strategies for Speaking Out

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

4) Put all conversations you have with anyone in administration - about anything related to your public voice- in writing. This will help you obtain important supports, such as disability insurance, down the road. Frankly you need that list handy every day you work for a university. Write it all down immediately. (5) 7) Take walks.

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Funding source shouldn't affect postdoc benefits (opinion)

Confessions of a Community College Dean

With 230 research institutions and more than 20,000 postdocs as members, the National Postdoctoral Association has seen postdocs struggle with fundamental life choices, such as whether to have a family and how to provide them with insurance, that should not be impacted by their funding source.

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Temple Restores Health Coverage to Striking Grad Students

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Temple University announced Tuesday that it has restored the health insurance benefit it cut for striking members of the graduate student workers’ union. Ad keywords: administrators faculty Is this diversity newsletter?: Temple’s cutting of their health and tuition benefits drew national media attention. Hide by line?:

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New IT strategies for solving higher ed’s biggest challenges

University Business

More from UB: Succession planning: How to find a community college president The University of the Pacific is just one of a rising number of organizations that are using enterprise browsers to address modern IT challenges. Administrators and guest lecturers expect systems that are both reliable and easy to navigate.

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With new safeguards rule, cybersecurity programs become even more critical for higher ed

University Business

“The FTC’s regulations require that the information security program contains administrative, technical, and physical safeguards that are appropriate to the size and complexity of the institution or servicer, the nature and scope of their activities, and the sensitivity of any student information.”

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U of Minnesota President Quits Controversial Board Seat

Confessions of a Community College Dean

billion in retirement plan assets for university employees, and its affiliate Minnesota Life Insurance Company is in the middle of a life insurance contract worth $4.6 ” Ad keywords: administrators executive Is this diversity newsletter?: The company holds $1.3 million a year. Hide by line?: