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Panel Explores Gun Prevention in Black Communities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Jada Watts is a member of the Student National Medical Association and member of the Howard University Taskforce at Howard University Hospital. "If Before I lost my brother, I always would see these things in the news, and I was like, 'wow, that is so sad,' and I would go on about my day.

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20 Winter-Inspired Service-Learning Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

They gain skills in organization and community outreach as they promote the drive, coordinate donation sites, and manage collected items. Toy Donation Drive Students can gather new or gently used toys to bring holiday cheer to children in hospitals or family shelters, brightening their winter season.

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The Ongoing Fight for Diversity in Higher Ed

Higher Ed Connects: Diversity

Continuing community outreach initiatives including those that create pathways from pre-academic readiness efforts to higher education. Since 2005, however, critics of the school’s admission policy have complained to the Education Department that, by considering race, the policy is discriminatory and violates civil rights laws.