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An introduction to our brand refresh

Deans for Impact

In 2015, Deans for Impact launched with an unwavering commitment to ensure that every child in this country is taught by well-prepared teachers. At the time, our work focused primarily on convening solutions-oriented education deans. The post An introduction to our brand refresh appeared first on Deans for Impact.

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Nursing Schools Teach Advocacy Skills to Help Advance Health Equity

Insight Into Diversity

Nurses work in hospitals, nursing homes, schools, physician offices, residences, and businesses — anywhere health care services are provided. As members of the largest body of the health professions, nurses are a force to be reckoned with when it comes to policymaking and advocacy initiatives. regarding the coronavirus in 2020.

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Northwestern Launches ‘Center for Enlightened Disagreement’

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University is planning to debut its Center for Enlightened Disagreement to address challenges in navigating differences to drive change and encourage critical thinking in solving pressing problems. Solving such problems is what higher education institutions should be about.

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William & Mary professors cry secrecy on data school, more

Inside Higher Ed

Take the college’s recent announcement that it’s exploring opening a computing and data science school. Some professors describe this as an end run around the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, which voted in early 2021 not to approve department status for William & Mary’s then year-old data science program.

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New Health Care Schools Open with Emphasis on Workforce Development, Addressing Inequities

Insight Into Diversity

Below are just a few examples of these new programs. Going forward, the multidisciplinary college will utilize public health education, research, and practice to eliminate health care disparities in underserved communities and develop a diverse workforce through graduate and undergraduate programs.

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Report Outlines Steps to Take to Support Students and Those Returning to College

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Higher education leaders and states can take a number of additional steps to bolster academic success, reenrollment, and degree completion for students who started college but never finished. Online courses and programs were both praised by comebackers and suggested by the report’s authors for the flexibility in scheduling that they provide.

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Dismantling Global Injustices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Title: Assistant Professor of Political Science; Director of the Center for Nonviolence and Peace Studies at the University of Rhode Island Tenured: No Age: 38 Education: B.A., international affairs, The New School; and Ph.D., Mark enrolled at the New School, where he earned a master’s degree in international affairs in 2012.