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Nearly 50 University of Massachusetts Amherst Students Hospitalized After Trending Drinking Challenge

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Nearly 50 students at the University of Massachusetts Amherst were hospitalized this past weekend after engaging in a drinking challenge popular on social media platform TikTok, CBS News reported. During their annual “Blarney Blowout,” an unsanctioned event related to St.

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A Snapshot in Time: The Cancer Cluster at NC State

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They said, ‘We admit you to the hospital tomorrow.’ I was in the hospital for 133 days beginning in July.” Terri says that, as a nurse, she felt she would be prepared for the things she would see as her husband’s stay in the hospital became months long. Masier says he simply thought he was getting old. “I It happened so fast.

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More Presidential Vacancies at HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

An ambulance was summoned, and I was transported to the hospital where I was determined to be suffering from anemia, severe dehydration, and pure exhaustion. My heart rate was elevated and irregular, my blood pressure dropped, and I simply passed out," Artis wrote in a May 15 Facebook post. "An

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

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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. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. Find us on social media! A few of my students coordinated this exact service-learning project example with St.

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Game Changers and Change Makers: Black Publishers’ Defiant Mark on History

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

From Black banks, Black cities, Black Wall Street, Black designers, Black universities (or HBCUs), and Black hospitals, the fundamental and operative word has been Black. An historical blueprint is provided by some of the world’s most brilliant revolutionaries, entrepreneurial minds, and activists.

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Shooting on Morgan State University Campus Wounds 5

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Four men and one woman – ages 18-22 – were hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries, four being Morgan State students, police said. A shooting at Morgan State University Tuesday night left five people wounded. Morgan State University Campus police on patrol heard gunfire around 9:25 p.m. and found multiple victims shot.

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Mapping the Legacy of RPI's First African American Woman Leader

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

I thought about how quiet I’d been as an undergrad, and I felt there was something I needed to do and should do at MIT to get more African American and minority students in and to make it more hospitable.” Jackson did that by co-founding the Black Student Union. In 1995, President Bill Clinton appointed Jackson chair of the U.S.

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