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Johanna Bond Appointed Dean of Rutgers Law School

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Johanna Bond will become dean of Rutgers Law School, effective Jul. Johanna Bond Bond is currently the tenured Sydney and Frances Lewis Professor of Law at the Washington and Lee University School of Law and an affiliate faculty member in the university’s Africana Studies and the women’s, gender, and sexuality studies programs.

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University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to Launch Scholarship Program as Part of Federal Agriculture Career Initiative

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Nina Lyon-Bennett will be heading a scholarship initiative for students pursuing degrees related to agriculture and family and consumer sciences at UAPB and Fort Valley State University. The ability to afford tuition is a major factor impacting student enrollment, retention, and persistence to graduation.” A&T is leading NEXTGEN.

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Honor and invest in Ukraine through scholarships (opinion)

Inside Higher Ed

We educated our campus communities as to what is at stake in Ukraine, facilitated efforts to provide humanitarian assistance to Ukrainian citizens and offered scholarships for Ukrainians interested in pursuing higher education. According to economists, roughly three-quarters of the wealth of most countries is accounted for by human capital.

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The Growing Role of Artificial Intelligence in College Admissions

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For schools that use a formula or rubric to initially determine which applicants might be successful candidates, AI can reduce significant strain on resources by sifting through large data sets. Kenyon College, a small private school with a 29% acceptance rate, uses a holistic application review process.

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

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The college was renamed and reorganized from the former College of Health and Human Services. Georgetown University, School of Health. opened its School of Health, an interdisciplinary program once part of the former School of Nursing & Health Sciences, from which Georgetown’s new School of Nursing was also launched.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

“Being at the largest HBCU in Alabama, I had the experience of training quite a bit of exceptional male teachers who would go on to do great things in the schools,” Strachan said. “I The MALE program was launched in 2019, months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Strachan pointed out, but said that has not stopped its efforts.

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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. The inspiration to form AMHPS came to Sullivan at a National Medical Association meeting when he was developing the medical school at Morehouse College in 1975.

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