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

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The current state of health equity and medical education were key topics at a webinar on Tuesday sponsored by Rutgers University’s Samuel DeWitt Proctor Institute for Leadership, Equity, and Justice. Other achievements include programs to bolster research infrastructure and scholarship assistance, Lancaster said. "We

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Rhodes College Awarded $800,000 for Research on Racial Equity

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Rhodes College will receive an $800,000 grant to expand their research on racial equity, discrimination, and justice in the Memphis and Mid-South region. And we are a vibrant, culturally rich city with a very interesting history that the rest of the world doesn't know much about.”

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Army Veteran and Doctoral Student Named Inaugural Winner of the U.S. Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship

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Army Women’s Foundation’s 6888th Scholarship, The Flash Today reported. The 6888th – the only all-female unit in Army history – was awarded the Congressional Gold Medal in March 2022. In a growing culture of diversity, equity and inclusion, these stories have to be shared. A Tarleton State University doctoral student and U.S.

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UA Libraries’ Digital Archival Project Empowers Voices Among U.S.-Mexico Border Communities

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Serving as the heart of knowledge and scholarship in higher education, academic libraries are uniquely positioned to advance and support digital and data-driven storytelling and archival efforts, especially as they relate to marginalized communities. Communities along the U.S.-Mexico

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Pride in the Halls

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Leslie Hall, director of the HBCU Program at the Human Rights Campaign — the largest LGBTQ lobbying organization in the U.S. It coincided with HRC’s HBCU Out Loud Day, which takes place the third Wednesday of October during LGBTQ History Month. The center director had to be reassigned to a new role on campus. of non-LGBTQ people.

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National University Announced The Launch Of The Cause Research Institute

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National University (NU) announced the launch of the Cause Research Institute (CRI), a new applied Research and Development arm that will coordinate research, scholarship, and other innovation efforts focused on social sector challenges, including education, health, human services, and criminal justice.

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A Defense of the Senior Diversity Officer in Politically Charged Times

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Institutions wary of the battle to unwind the work of equity, inclusion, justice, and belonging would do well to invest in leaders whose work epitomizes its core values. Our newer faculty ranks are at their most diverse in UC history. Our trajectories connect through the continually evolving scholarship of inclusion.