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Cultivating cannabis: Higher ed’s influence on a billion-dollar industry

University Business

Federally, cannabis remains a Schedule 1 drug and illegal , adding complexity to educational initiatives. While the education itself is legal, institutions must safeguard students from the legal implications of a Schedule 1 drug. However, a word of caution to institutions eyeing cannabis education – legal scrutiny looms large.

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Using Content Disclosures in Our Courses 

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Such content may include (but is not limited to) topics related to sexual violence, self-harm and/or suicide, eating disorders, hate speech, prejudice, drug use, violence, child abuse, animal abuse, pregnancy and/or childbirth, miscarriages, abortion, and death. 2022 for a review).

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Using Content Disclosures in Our Courses 

Faculty Focus

Such content may include (but is not limited to) topics related to sexual violence, self-harm and/or suicide, eating disorders, hate speech, prejudice, drug use, violence, child abuse, animal abuse, pregnancy and/or childbirth, miscarriages, abortion, and death. 2022 for a review).

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Roundup of spring university-press titles in a personal vein

Inside Higher Ed

Or, How I Learned to Love (and Lament) Anthropology ( University of California Press , April) offers the self-portrait of “a professor affected by bipolar disorder, drug addiction, and a stalled career who searches for meaning and purpose within a sanctimonious discipline and a society in shambles.”

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Remembering Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023)

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Reverend Al Sharpton was among the many guests that Ogletree would invite to Saturday School across the years, and the two worked together with the late New York City Mayor Ed Koch to develop a program called Second Chance to help nonviolent drug offenders reintegrate into society.

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How colleges are failing our students

University Business

To determine whether a new Alzheimer’s drug offers relief, a student needs to weigh the evidence available from experimental trials. According to a 2019 study from the Society for Human Resource Management, nearly two-thirds of employers surveyed indicated that it was difficult to find college grads with adequate critical thinking skills.

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Celebrating Baltimore’s Rich Local Heritage of Black Culture + Tradition

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It chronicles Watkins’ childhood in a city where poverty and a drug epidemic thrust him into an adult world no child should face. Societies evolve not because one incredible person made a big change—systemic changes happen when all of us join together to make small, consistent steps.

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