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Seeking Solutions to Strengthen Career Pathways

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Why healthcare? Our region has a large healthcare industry with a significantly unmet employment demand exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Team NEO, in its 2019 Aligning Opportunities Report, zeroes in on the talent shortage facing three sectors of the economy — IT, manufacturing, and healthcare.

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A People Person

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Burnes Bolton, chief nursing officer emeritus at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, dedicated her life and career to the nursing industry, having joined the healthcare organization in 1971 and retiring at age 72 in 2022. We were the first institution in Los Angeles County to go with all bachelor’s degrees,” Burnes Bolton notes.

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Nursing Educator Brings Talents and Skills Back to Thriving HBCU

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She shined a light on the importance of providing quality healthcare. You cannot separate who a person is from managing their healthcare effectively." As a decades-long healthcare professional, Morris also has ample experience with epidemics and pandemics. And she's a role model. People were afraid.

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Access Must be Front Burner for Community Colleges

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

There is the possibility of increasing enrollment with high-demand programs like nursing and other areas of healthcare, said Lee, but such programs are costly in order to ensure adequate skills labs and faculty. Creating partnerships with local industry is a crucial part of building pathways to gainful employment, Trent noted. “If

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

During the pandemic, faculty at Dominican University, a private Catholic institution near Chicago and another AACN honoree, put together two virtual symposiums about the lack of diversity in healthcare as well as health disparities and inequities that existed prior to COVID-19 and how the pandemic made them more evident.

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Why Removing Technical Debt Is Important to Higher Ed Cybersecurity

EdTech Magazine - Higher Education

Enterprises in all industries have legacy applications and outdated infrastructure, but higher education institutions often accrue technical debt because they tend to delay technology upgrades or turn to short-term solutions to meet their needs, according to EDUCAUSE. healthcare, state, local and education sales at Nutanix.

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Wave of Higher Ed Union Strikes Swells Nationwide

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

as workers in the industry demand improvements from their institutions for their ongoing labor. Carey is president of ACT-UAW Local 7902, a union representing more than 4,000 part-time and adjuncts, student educators, and healthcare workers at New York University and The New School. Temple University. University of Illinois at Chicago.