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Nursing Schools Teach Advocacy Skills to Help Advance Health Equity

Insight Into Diversity

While nurses routinely advocate for their patients, political and legislative advocacy is just as important, according to the American Nurses Association (ANA). To further advance advocacy and equity in health care, Johns Hopkins University (JHU) School of Nursing will launch a new program in 2023 to teach nursing students about policymaking.

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These leaders’ commitment to DEI got them the nod for president

University Business

Outside academia, Scholz served the U.S. As Dean of the Faculty, she reviewed their recruitment, appointment and promotion; additionally, she oversaw the budget, personnel and graduate programs across multiple academic departments. Treasury Department and the Council of Economic Advisors. ” Rivera-Mills begin this June.

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Help Wanted

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Conversations are ongoing on campus about how to better meet the needs of students, faculty, and staff utilizing a holistic approach, says Dr. Tamara Bland, associate professor and interim dean of the Borra College of Health Sciences and Elizabeth T. Claflin is starting its program summer 2023. MacNeil School of Nursing.

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First Doctoral Program at a TCU Will Contribute to Native Sovereignty

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

When Dr. Elmer Guy first came to Crownpoint Institute of Technology in 1999 as dean of instruction, he could not have known that, 24 years later, he would oversee the institution’s renaming to Navajo Technical University (NTU). It became the first tribal college and university, or TCU, to offer a Ph.D.

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

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Following her retirement as president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) in July 2022, Jackson continued to have an impact on academia, industry, and public service. A dean at MIT suggested she look at some industrial research labs. Jackson has also been an advocate for gender equity. Washington, a fellow physicist.

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Pathways to professorship

HEPI

This guest blog has been kindly written for HEPI by Roger Watson, Academic Dean, School of Nursing, Southwest Medical University, China and outgoing President of the National Conference of University Professors. This piece is a review of Pathways to professorship: a toolkit for success by Marily Leask (2023) published by Routledge, London.

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