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Esther Jones has been named associate dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. Before her latest post, Jones served in various leadership capacities including as an associate provost in the Office of Faculty Affairs at Clark University.

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Back in September, Western Michigan University—a public research institution located in the southwestern corner of the state—released its fall 2024 enrollment and retention numbers, much to the delight of the school’s provost, Dr. Julian Vasquez Heilig. The fact that we had an increase of 3% last year, we don’t take that for granted.”

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JUNE 26, 2023

Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) and Vanderbilt University (VU) are launching a $17-million diversity, equity, inclusion, (DEI) and belonging program for the biomedical research community. Additionally, more than four dozen faculty will be V-FIRST mentors. American Indian, and 0.1% Pacific Islander.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Words of Wisdom for new faculty: Challenges alone dont define you, but rather it is how you respond to challenges that make the difference. So, the medical school had an opening, and I applied for the position and got accepted. So, the medical school had an opening, and I applied for the position and got accepted.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2024

In his sophomore year of college, Williams had begun to struggle academically and financially, but the leadership and faculty at Xavier gave him the opportunity to continue his education. Dunn chose to attend Xavier as an undergraduate with hopes of becoming a medical doctor. Dr. Dereck J. Rovaris, Sr.,

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AUGUST 26, 2024

community, attract the best physicians in the nation to support comprehensive healing and ensure a superior learning environment for medical students and residents.” He serves as the chief medical officer for the Howard University Faculty Practice Plan and professor of pathology in Howard’s College of Medicine. Ben Vinson III.

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AUGUST 15, 2024

The research is rich and ever-manifesting on college campuses for McMickens, an associate professor of higher education and the director of the M.S.Ed. The research question is a primary mode of inquiry for him. “My This arm of my research agenda is aimed at understanding how campus cultures, campus climates, and campus actors (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Health equity is something MSM leaders, faculty members, and students work toward every day. As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals. “As As a medical school, our first priority is to train physicians, researchers, and other healthcare professionals.

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Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Columbia University’s Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons (VP&S) has established the VP&S Latino Association, a group that aims to foster development, presence, and belonging of the Latino community at the medical school. Although approximately 20% of people in the U.S.

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JUNE 30, 2024

Littles, who has served as interim dean since February 2023, served as a senior associate dean for medical education and academic affairs for nearly 20 years. Littles earned her medical degree from University of Florida College of Medicine and completed the Tallahassee Memorial Family Practice Residency Program. “Dr.

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OCTOBER 19, 2023

Campus racial climate is defined in the report as the “current attitudes, behaviors, and practices of faculty and students at a higher education institution toward students based on their race/ethnicity.” The same student had an asthma attack and the teacher said she was faking it, so she didn’t help her get medical attention.”

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JANUARY 17, 2024

It went downhill after the [Family and Medical Leave Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act] documents were submitted due to my severe depression and anxiety. Strayhorn, vice provost and director of research for the Center for the Study of HBCUs at Virginia Union University.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

The budding Black studies department at the University of Rochester will fast-track their hiring of faculty with the help of a $3 million grant from the Mellon Foundation. chair of faculty programs and departmental initiatives in the university's Black studies department. Dr. Jeffrey Q. McCune, Jr. McCune, Jr.,

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MARCH 6, 2025

Discussion Questions What other hidden curriculum items do undergraduate students have to overcome, and how can instructors and faculty assist them in doing so? 2021) Students and faculty perspectives toward the role and value of the hidden curriculum in undergraduate medical education: A qualitative study from Saudi Arabia.

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AUGUST 9, 2024

We’re going to produce — and it’s happening now — graduates in critical areas at the research level, at the workforce level, in ways that are meeting critical needs particularly of talent,” says Dr. Tonya L. At present, none of the nation’s 101 HBCUs has Research 1 status, which refers to doctoral universities with high research activity.

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MAY 25, 2023

Since 2009, she’s been engaged in research relating to health services and health equity, she said. “My She said she chose to take on the USC appointment as her first faculty position and to continue in academia, in part, because she wanted to help uplift others. “We She has spent the better part of 14 years in this field.

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MAY 12, 2024

“Chris Edley was a smart, caring, determined advocate for justice who could move easily and powerfully through the mazes of top levels of law, politics, and research,” said Orfield, who is Distinguished Research Professor at UCLA Graduate School of Education and co-director of The Civil Rights Project at UCLA. Orrick, Jr.

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MAY 8, 2023

“We are certainly going to need more nurses as the population gets older, so the medical profession will be put to the test. The gift to the UH College of Nursing is meant to strengthen nursing education and research, fund scholarships and fellowships, and increase the nurse workforce.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Outside of Duke, Bennett served as president of the Society of Behavioral Medicine and is a fellow of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research and an elected member of the Behavioral Medicine Research Council. Bennett holds a Ph.D. and an A.M.

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JULY 5, 2023

My long-term goal is to explore, confront and disrupt ableism (discrimination in favor of able-bodied people) in the context of nursing, applied health sciences and medical education,” said Jamal-Eddine, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing. “I

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Roanoke College students will soon get the opportunity to learn and even earn a degree in cannabis studies, after approval from school faculty. Historically, in the realm of scientific literature and research, government funding around the substance was mostly given to look at the plant’s potential negative consequences, she said.

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JULY 23, 2023

My long-term goal is to explore, confront and disrupt ableism (discrimination in favor of able-bodied people) in the context of nursing, applied health sciences and medical education,” said Jamal-Eddine, a doctoral student at the University of Illinois Chicago (UIC), College of Nursing. “I

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MARCH 1, 2023

13, said Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the task force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, TX. Dr. Keith Williamson, co-chair of the ACHA Gun Safety Task Force and medical director at the Vinson Health Center at Midwestern State University.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

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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DECEMBER 6, 2022

Her work has led to several technological advances, such as simulation tools for assessing emergency department patient flow, improved manufacturing processes for medical devices, and a sensor-based system to conduct early screening of Parkinson’s disease.

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

million research grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The faculty and staff overseeing EPW know each student personally. “I Through partnerships with organizations such as the aerospace and defense technology company Northrop Grumman, EPW is able to offer internships and research opportunities.

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The Scholarly Teacher

JUNE 12, 2024

Alesia Jennings , Western Carolina University April Tallant , Western Carolina University Key Statement: A six-anchor model to boost new faculty teaching self-efficacy was developed, providing practical applications for faculty development programs and individual course design. Six anchor model of Faculty Forward.

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OCTOBER 25, 2022

Doing that at a prestigious Research 1 institution was too important to pass up. Students organized Black student unions demanding more African American studies courses, Black faculty and staff,” says Canton. Canton, who is also an associate professor of history, hired two faculty members in year one.

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JUNE 15, 2023

Barbara Jones Jones has served as the Lockhart Memorial Professor in Direct Social Work Practice, founding director of the Institute for Collaborative Health Research and Practice, and associate dean for health affairs at the University of Texas at Austin’s Steve Hicks School of Social Work.

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MARCH 1, 2023

Janelle Scott has been voted president-elect of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). Outside of AERA, Scott is a trustee of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, a Dean’s Distinguished Research Fellow at Monash University, and member of the National Academy of Education. Scott holds a Ph.D.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

At The Steve Fund, we’ve spent years understanding the impact of mental health stressors on young people of color and researching the best ways to deal with them. Our research shows that students of color are experiencing higher rates of depression and anxiety and are 14% less likely than white youth to receive depression treatment.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

The results were unambiguous: 72% of respondents believed that student, faculty, and staff mental health had gotten worse over the past year. We’ve found that the vast majority of faculty really want to help, but they just don’t know how,” she said. The staffing needs to increase,” he said. The funding needs to increase.”

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Toxic incentive structures surrounding publishing scholarly work may be eroding faculty and research integrity at large. ” And leaders must remain particularly stringent with holding faculty accountable when they’ve been found to deliberately cheat, Magness says. Part of that is due to the barrage of scandals.”

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FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Nic John Ramos, whose research on the histories of minoritized communities aims to amplify their oft-marginalized voices. The professor first pursued collegiate study and research pertaining to poor people of color and queer and trans people — persons who were familiar to Ramos in appearance and life experience. “It

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

AAP staff works with students, faculty, and staff at those schools and at UCLA to create pathways. AAP’s research, assessment, and evaluation unit conducts surveys, reviews grades and hosts focus groups to collect data on the summer bridge programs. They’ll have a research question that they’ll take with them.

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MARCH 27, 2025

The first blog in the series by Jane Hislop and Simone Dimartino introduces LEGO SERIOUS PLAY (LSP), a dynamic, hands-on teaching approach incorporated into Edinburgh Medical Schools Summer School in Clinical Education. Her research has also led her to integrate virtual reality in the classroom to facilitate student learning.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

of full-time nursing school faculty are minoritized, according to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing. It’s a lot of mental [acrobatics] that go on, I’ll tell you that,” says Mamie Williams, senior director for nurse diversity and inclusion at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC). 14-18 at Vanderbilt.

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