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The Job: Healthcare High Schools

WebWhile Kane says old-school vocational K-12 programs definitely tracked, the new healthcare high schools are about providing more good options for students. And …

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Are Students Sacrificing Mental Health for a Diploma

WebLast year, Utah started allowing high school students to use mental health issues as a valid excuse for absence, and Oregon enacted a law that allows for mental …

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A Texas-sized shortage of healthcare workers

WebA Texas-sized shortage of healthcare workers. Work Shift talks with Eric Bing, chancellor of the College of Health Care Professions in Texas, about how institutions and …

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Black and Latino youth are struggling with mental health, all the …

WebWhen Sandra Kalu was in high school, the majority of her teachers were white, while her classmates were mostly Black and Latino. The disparity mattered.

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How Duquesne University is building neighborhood relationships …

WebIn January, Duquesne’s Center for Integrative Health received funding of $475,000 from the Henry L. Hillman Foundation* to expand services and hire community …

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Pitt police, clinicians jointly respond to some mental health crises

WebFor college students in the midst of a mental health crisis, interacting with campus police can make the experience even more terrifying. Getting to the hospital …

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How online training can ease healthcare demands

WebStride Inc., a large online K-12 education provider, acquired MedCerts in 2020 for roughly $80M. The company’s 50+ self-paced career training programs in healthcare, …

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Pitt has launched a program to support students in crisis. It’s …

WebThe University of Pittsburgh is unable to provide concrete data to show whether a roughly year-old partnership between mental health professionals and …

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A tale of two certificates

WebTake Concorde Career College in Colorado, where students who complete a certificate in fields like Radiological Technology or Surgical Technologist (fields that are …

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Hunt Foundation’s $500,000 gift ‘life changing’ for UTHealth El …

WebThe Woody and Gayle Hunt Family Foundation announced this week that it awarded $500,000 to the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston School …

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Here are higher education issues that I’ll focus on in El Paso

WebIn comparison to the rest of Texas, El Paso lags in getting its high school and college students graduated. According to Census Bureau data collected from 2015 …

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The post-pandemic Gen Z

WebBorn starting around 1995, the arrival of this new generation on college campuses almost went unnoticed by college leaders who talked about millennials as if …

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Texas Tech El Paso dental school is the first of its kind in a border

WebThe dental school will be the first of its kind in a border city. “We’re small but we’re growing,” said Dr. Richard Black, dean of the school and a former private …

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Should colleges be doing more to prioritize career development

WebCareer education needs to be a priority of the highest order for colleges, argues Testani, who previously worked in career services at Virginia Commonwealth …

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For Black women returning to complete degrees, HBCUs feel like …

WebAbout 110,000 Black women with some college credits but no degree returned to college in 2020, nearly double the number of Black men, according to data …

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Priming the pump

WebNo Single Solution. Demand is surging for allied health care workers, including medical assistants, radiologic technologists, and physical therapist …

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A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year

WebBack in March, when colleges first started sending students home, Andrea Klick, our intern at the time, talked about how colleges’ actions betrayed their values — …

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