The university’s first Asian American woman to serve as chair of the CSU Board of Trustees shares stories and lessons from her leadership journey.
Tag: equity and inclusion
AAOS Announces Call for Proposals for Inspiring Diversity, Equity and Access Projects Across Orthopaedics
The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) today announced a call for proposals for the AAOS IDEA Grant Program, a multi-year initiative to inspire diversity, equity and access across the field of orthopaedics. Now in its second year, the program will award $300,000 in 2024 to help address decades of inertia surrounding persistent disparities across orthopaedics and, in turn, better serve patients nationwide.
Terrance Mayes, EdD, and Loretta Erhunmwunsee, MD, FACS, Announced as Leaders for NCCN Forum on Equity
National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s new Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion (DEI) Directors Forum is working together to improve diversity of clinical staff representation across nation’s leading academic cancer centers.
Researchers should avoid use terms like ‘race,’ ‘ancestry,’ or ‘ethnicity’ interchangeably
McMaster expert advises on using terms like ‘race’ in health-care research Health-care researchers should avoid use terms like ‘race,’ ‘ancestry,’ or ‘ethnicity’ interchangeably in their studies and research reports, says McMaster University professor Sonia Anand in her latest study in…
Research examines the impacts of rent regulation and implications for inequality
Luis Quintero, an assistant professor at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, recently conducted a study examining the socioeconomic impacts of rent regulation with colleagues from the University of North Texas and George Washington University.
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Selects Medical Schools as Partners for Key Anti-Racism Initiative
The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai will enroll 11 partner medical schools in its Anti-Racist Transformation (ART) in Medical Education initiative, which seeks to use a formal change management process developed at Mount Sinai to address deeply entrenched racism and bias. The initiative has received generous support from the Josiah Macy Jr. Foundation.
UAE’s “Green Sheikh” Visits Green Bronx Machine, Gotham Greens and CS55
Green Bronx Machine founder Stephen Ritz and his students welcomed yesterday His Royal
Highness Sheikh Abdulaziz bin Ali Al Nuaimi, to their classroom at the National Health and Wellness
Learning Center (NHWLC) at CS 55 in the Bronx.
National Partnership Launched to Increase Faculty Diversity in Architectural, Planning and Design Studies
Nine leading U.S. schools and colleges of architecture, planning and design have co-founded the Deans’ Equity and Inclusion Initiative to work together to nurture a diverse population of emerging scholars focused on teaching and researching the built environment to advance socio-ecological and spatial justice, equity and inclusion.
CSU’s Super Sunday Goes Virtual to Promote Higher Learning
Outreach to African American community aims to encourage a college-going culture and to eliminate equity gaps.