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Center for Politics and Race Honors Late New Jersey Lt. Governor

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Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America with Dr. Jacqueline Mattis, the university’s dean of the School of Arts and Sciences. In 2010, the Newark native became the first African American woman to serve as Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly and only the second in our nation's history to lead a state legislative house.

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Hospital Honors Trailblazing Surgeon With Levi Watkins, Jr., M.D. Outpatient Center

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He served as associate dean at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Endowed Scholarship Fund for minority medical students in 2009. The school also has its Hard History at Hopkins project to bring to light the hospital’s history with slavery. “I Commemoration in 1982; and helped fund the Levi Watkins, Jr.,

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Century-Old Institutions Paving the Way for DEI in Sports with Strategic Plan

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But Dr. Ajhanai Keaton, an assistant professor in the Department of Health and Sport Sciences at the University of Louisville, Kentucky, says that, while the NCAA’s policy has good intentions, there are no clear repercussions for athletic departments that do not include DEI programs. athletic system and not the athletes themselves.

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Rutgers Webinar Discusses Health Equity, Minority Health, and Medical Education

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The Proctor Institute – housed in the Rutgers-New Brunswick Graduate School of Education – hosted the event in honor of Black History Month. Sullivan discussed his latest book, We’ll Fight It Out Here: A History of the Ongoing Struggle for Health Equity, which chronicles the history and impacts of AMHPS.

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Patty Limerick speaks out on her dismissal from her center

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Limerick,” Chris Whitney, the board’s vice chair and brand commissioner for the state of Colorado’s Department of Agriculture, wrote to Glen Krutz, CU Boulder’s dean of arts and sciences. This does not affect Limerick’s tenured position as professor of history or her ability to conduct research."

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A professor's job is endangered for teaching about race

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The professor, Samuel Joeckel, said in an email that the dean of his department and the university’s provost waited outside the class he was teaching last week to inform him of the news. The dean had an envelope in his hand and gave it to me. “On Feb. “On Feb. “They asked to speak with me privately.

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Nine insights from an integration process (opinion)

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which traced its history to the union of Leicester Academy, founded in 1784, and the Becker Business College, which opened in 1887. It also was a serious loss for the Worcester region because of Becker College’s long and impactful history in the area and the prominence of several academic programs.