Deirdre Fernandes and Keith Bedford of the Boston Globe newspaper recently published an extensive, image-rich article on Southern New Hampshire University’s work with refugee students in Africa. The piece is filled with sobering data points and inspirational stories aptly entitled “An Education in Hope.” I encourage you to read about these brave people and share your thoughts on how education can be a pathway to opportunity.
Click here for the Boston Globe article.
Academia plays an important role in preparing healthcare administrators to step up in a crisis, as well as to keep things running day-to-day.
In light of the current state of affairs in the United States following the murder of George Floyd, we wanted to ensure that the ongoing work to address issues of diversity and inequity does not fade into yet another academic but irrelevant set of meetings where everyone simply admires the problem.
Despite its simple definition and advances in our understanding of mental illnesses, it is often associated with words and phrases like weakness, being a phase, fake, or shame. This stigma related to mental health, mental illness, and mental health diagnosis too often leads to discrimination.