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The Affordable Care Act eliminated out-of-pocket costs for recommended preventative care for most privately insured patients. However, a new study led by researchers at the University of Toronto has uncovered racial and economic disparities associate...
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Leslie Rodriguez-McClellon has been named the seventeenth president of Arkansas Baptist College, a historically Black institution in Little Rock. According to the Department of Education’s most recent data, Arkansas Baptist College enrolls roug...
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According to a new study from scholars at Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in Los Angeles, Black men are significantly underrepresented in the physician assistant and associate (PA) profession compared to their share of the United S...
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The Tennessee Higher Education Commission recently released data on enrollments at state-operated colleges and universities. Systemwide, enrollments grew 2.2 percent from the fall of 2023. Undergraduate enrollment was up 2.3 percent and graduate enro...
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Students who miss at least 10 percent of days in a school year are considered to be chronically absent by the Department of Education. Chronic absenteeism peaked during the COVID-19 pandemic, but remains prevalent throughout the state of New York, ac...
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On October 25, Central State University, a historically Black institution in Wilberforce, Ohio, was placed on fiscal watch by the Ohio Department of Higher Education (ODHE). The fiscal watch was declared by ODHE Chancellor Mike Duffey, who has the au...
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Huston-Tilloston University, a historically Black educational institution in Austin, Texas, has announced plans to launch two new satellite campuses in California. Currently, Huston-Tilloston University has been approved to offer online courses for C...
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Vaughn A. Booker has been named the George E. Doty, Jr. and Lee Spelman Doty Presidential Associate Professor of Africana Studies in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania. As a historian of religion, his research and tea...
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Sanofi, a global healthcare company, has awarded a combined $18 million grant to three historically Black medical schools to increase diversity in clinical trials. By gaining insight into how diseases affect populations of different backgrounds, the...
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Mississippi University for Women (MUW), in partnership with the University Press of Mississippi, has awarded the 2024 Eudora Welty Prize to Kemeshia Swanson in honor of her new book, Maverick Feminist: To Be Female and Black in a Country Founded Upon...
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Alcorn State University, a historically Black university in Mississippi, has canceled its women’s soccer season, according to a recent report from HBCU Gameday. A letter signed by 15 current and former players called out inadequate athletic fa...
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Chandra Dorsey-Felton has been selected to serve as interim deputy athletic director for student success and compliance at Florida Memorial University. She brings over two decades of collegiate coaching and administrative experience to her new role....
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Peggy Davis, associate vice president for athletics at Virginia State University, passed away on October 16. She was 62 years old. In 1997, Davis began her career with Virginia State University as head coach of the women’s basketball team. Seve...
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NASCAR has expanded their Campus Lab Program to Winston-Salem State University, a historically Black institution in North Carolina. The partnership makes WSSU the first institution in North Carolina and the first public university in the country to j...
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A team of scholars led by Stanford University’s Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab) have partnered with the County of Santa Clara, California to remove racist language in millions of property deeds. The state of California enact...
