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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. The current state of health equity is still in need of improvement, Riley said. Sullivan, former Secretary of the U.S.

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Dr. Cady Short-Thompson Appointed President of Northern Kentucky University

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Cady Short-Thompson Short-Thompson is currently CEO and executive director of educational equity at the nonprofit Breakthrough Cincinnati. From 1996 to 2010, she taught at the school as a professor of communication, graduate program director, and department chair. This appointment marks a return to NKU for Short-Thompson.

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The Erosion of DEI in Higher Education: A Threat to Progress and National Strength

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As a first-generation college student, a Black woman, and the child of immigrants, I have witnessed firsthand the transformative power of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs in higher education. Page in a book published in 2010 concluded diversity created “better groups, firms, schools and societies.”

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Kimberly Ford

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As the NCAA’s director of minority inclusion since 2010, Ford has been on a mission to create a culture of inclusion and equity for student-athletes, coaches and administrators from diverse backgrounds. Ford’s wish: “To see in my lifetime that the work I am doing now is no longer needed.”

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Dr. Mildred Garcia

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García’s research in higher education has concentrated on the impact that equity, diversity and outreach have on policy and practice. In 2010, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appointed García to the U.S. Committee on Measures of Student Success.

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Generation Hope to Reach 3 Million Parenting Students by 2029

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When Nicole Lynn Lewis founded Generation Hope in 2010, she realized that her organization could be the first place that parenting students are ever told “Yes.” “The The families we serve go out into the world, in educational and community settings, where the answer is often, ‘No.’

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Integrating Community Engagement into her Scholarship

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One of López’s examinations centered on media representation of the DREAM Act of 2010. It not only contributes to increasing Latine students’ educational and political opportunities, but it also contributes to the advancement of methodological techniques to study contemporary issues of equity in politics.