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Black History Month 2024: African Americans and the Arts 

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Reading Time: 4 minutes The national theme for Black History Month 2024 is “ African Americans and the Arts.” Black History Month 2024 is a time to recognize and highlight the achievements of Black artists and creators, and the role they played in U.S. history and in shaping our country today.

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Brem Foundation Improves Breast Cancer Outcomes for Underrepresented Women

Insight Into Diversity

Other factors such as family history, having dense breasts, age, and lifestyle can also play a role. The foundation’s newly launched online risk assessment tool, CheckMate , enables women to utilize their personal and family medical history information to assess their breast cancer risk. Nobody knows your body as well as you know you.”●

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John Carroll Nursing Program Prioritizes Marginalized Communities and Addresses Bias in Health Care

Insight Into Diversity

We want students to truly know and understand themselves, because our experiences and history can lead to bias, and bias can influence action. Sigg notes that the link with PNAO originated when a student in one of her honors courses on Asian American history revealed a familial connection.

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Calls for Change at Penn State

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

That quote, inspired by famed civil rights activist Fannie Lou Hamer, comes from an open letter sent on April 16, 2024 to Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, president of The Pennsylvania State University. “We “We protest. We are sick. We are tired. Still, we protest.”

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Dr. Melissa Gilliam to Lead Boston University as Historic First

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

She is currently executive vice president and provost at The Ohio State University, the first Black to hold that role in the school’s history. Gilliam, a physician and higher education leader, will take on the mantle of president of Boston University, effective Jul. In doing so, she will become BU’s first woman and first Black president.

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Strikes and unions: Graduate students marshal their forces nationwide

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He believes that graduate students have increasingly assumed the brunt of teaching and research responsibilities compared to tenured faculty, and, according to one of his articles , the employment growth of graduate students was triple that of tenured faculty. It’s the first strike in the union’s history.

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New graduate program at Gustavus Adolphus College

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“It seems natural that something like this would be our first step into a master’s program or a higher-level degree,” said Brenda Kelly, provost and dean of the college, citing the lengthy history of the undergraduate athletic training program, which began in 1976. Yes In-Article Careers: 3 ” Kelly said.

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