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Howard University Wins $4 Million to Create Programs to Bolster Health Equity Journalism at HBCUs

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Health disparities continue to characterize Americans’ health, life chances, and life expectancy,” said Nikole Hannah-Jones, the Knight Chair in Race and Journalism at the Cathy Hughes School of Communications.

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The pressures of youth: Japan and Korea

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“[There is an] expectation from society when it comes to income, yet social mobility is pretty stagnant in Japan.” ” Noriko refers to what her friends call ‘reading the air’ – essentially reading the room about what is expected from young people by Japanese society.

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Study explores students’ ‘sense of home’ in UK

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It found that students draw resources from their “personal cultural trajectories within which their lives in Britain form another stage in a lifelong journey of identity construction” Researchers said the international students did not ‘assimilate’ in the expected sense and that their friends are not mainly ‘British’.

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Levelling the playing field from birth to graduation: why universities have a crucial role to play in ensuring every child has a chance to flourish and thrive

HEPI

The impact of the earliest years of life BusinessLDN – the independent voice of business in London – has recently published a report with KPMG and the Central District Alliance analysing the business impact of the lack of affordable, quality childcare. .” This HEPI blog was kindly authored by Professor Amanda J.

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Study: Age As Aspect of Identity Not Prioritized by University DEI Offices

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

Increases in life expectancy call for educational systems to change orientation toward age and the longer life course,” the report read. “As As people are living and working longer, the need for on-going education and training grows. Rather, it is often times accepted, according to the study.

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Why the answer to the $64,000 question is … $64,000: How much do students need to live on?

HEPI

We mean having around enough income to be safe, warm and decently fed, to be able to buy necessary course-related items and to be able to get involved with the non-academic side of university life, perhaps by joining a society or two. Can students reasonably expect to have a bath mat or a door mat?

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Study: Preschool-Age Children Notice Household Labor Inequalities

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

According to the study’s authors, children seeing this inequality can result in future negative behaviors, such as girls’ expectations of inequality and fewer girls in STEM careers. "As People seem to normalize certain types of inequalities in general society, Chernyak said. They are seeing this labor,” Midgette said. “We