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  • Native health program celebrates first four graduates

    September 26, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: United States, North Dakota

    The University of North Dakota’s doctoral program in Indigenous health, which is the first of its kind, takes an interdisciplinary approach to help students apply their research and academic knowledge to real-world projects in Indigenous communities. The program’s first class of graduates completed the program in 2023, with 60 more students currently enrolled.

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  • Alternate-Route Education Programs Target Mississippi's Teacher Shortage

    September 15, 2023 |

    Mississippi Free Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Alternative licensure programs such as the Mississippi Teacher Corps allow people with a bachelor’s degree to earn a teaching license in the classroom through a combination of hands-on experience, coursework, and mentorship. Since its founding in 1989, the corps has placed more than 600 teachers in districts designated as “critical-shortage areas.”

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  • To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to grow your own programs

    August 07, 2023 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Morgan City, Louisiana

    “Grow your own” programs, like Reach University’s, are working to address teacher shortages, particularly in rural areas, by recruiting school employees who don’t have college or education degrees and giving them a chance to earn an undergraduate degree in education at just $75 a month. Participants take courses online and take 15 hours out of their work week to spend time observing and training in classrooms. So far 84% of all parishes across the state have signed up to take Reach trainees, which could put a significant dent in the statewide teacher vacancy issue.

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  • How local, state programs are helping fill retiring doctors' ranks

    July 22, 2023 |

    Sentinel Source (The Keene Sentinel) |

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    Response Location: United States, Keene, New Hampshire

    Several state and local programs are emerging to fill the shoes of retiring doctors in the area, like the Advanced Nursing Education Workforce (ANEW) program. ANEW covers the cost of higher education for local nurses to become APRNs to then work as primary care nurse practitioners tto help address the lack of doctors and increase access to healthcare. So far, about 40 APRNs have graduated from the ANEWA program, 68% of which are from rural communities.

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  • Muckleshoot Tribal College makes history with doctoral graduates

    July 02, 2023 |

    Indian Country Today |

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    Response Location: United States, Tacoma, Washington

    The Muckleshoot Cohort is an Indigenous-led doctoral program in educational leadership that is built around Indigenous culture and knowledge. The initiative, which encourages students to reclaim their Native identities and tackle generational trauma related to the colonized education system, graduated 10 students in its inaugural class.

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  • Temple University's successful grad student strike offers lessons for academic labor organizers

    May 02, 2023 |

    The Real News Network |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    A 42-day strike coordinated by the Temple University Graduate Students’ Association resulted in a new contract that raised wages and eliminated the previous wage system among other improvements to the student workers’ benefits.

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  • Un programa de ASU está abordando la brecha de diversidad y la retención de maestros en la fuerza laboral educativa de Arizona

    March 31, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Arizona

    Los nuevos programas educativos multilingües y multiculturales como el de la Universidad Estatal de Arizona (ASU) ayudan a preparar a los futuros maestros para satisfacer las necesidades de los estudiantes latinos y disminuir la crisis de retención de maestros en el estado.

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  • Can the Increase in Higher Education Diversity and Inclusion Efforts Solve Health Disparities?

    March 15, 2023 |

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    Response Location: United States, Providence, Rhode Island

    Medical schools and public health programs have shifted some of their practices in an effort to attract more Black students, such as by removing GRE requirements and recruiting more Black faculty, and these schools have seen an influx of applications during the pandemic. One example is Brown University's Health Equity Scholars program, which offers tuition support, a paid research assistantship, and formalized mentorship to a diverse cohort each year.

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  • In Washington, Students Learn About Climate Change Like Nowhere Else

    January 12, 2023 |

    Reasons to be Cheerful |

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    Response Location: United States, Washington

    Washington state's ClimeTime program trains educators to teach about climate change and environmental justice in a way that explores local impacts and gives students tools for taking action. Roughly 98 percent of teachers who participated in 2021-22 said ClimeTime made them feel more prepared to tackle climate change in the classroom.

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  • Why is Duluth a national hub for training Native physicians?

    January 02, 2023 |

    Sahan Journal |

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    Response Location: United States, Duluth, Minnesota

    At the University of Minnesota Medical School's Duluth Campus, the Center of American Indian and Minority Health provides a space for Indigenous students to connect with one another, honor their traditions, and find support in a challenging academic setting. The school, which also requires eight hours of instruction on treating Native Americans, has produced more Indigenous medical graduates than almost any other in the United States.

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