cmaadmin (HEAL)Other NewsTulane University, Children’s Hospital Launch Moderna COVID-19 Vaccine Trial for ChildrenTulane University School of Medicine and Children’s Hospital New Orleans are participating in a national clinical trial to test the effectiveness of Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine in children ages 6 months to 11 years old. The KidCOVE Study plans to enroll children across the country to test how the vaccine may protect young children from getting sick […]July 26, 2021Other NewsAs Fall Semester Approaches, Institutions Struggle to Address Student Mental Health ConcernsNext month, Eden Schiano will start college for the second time. Her first try came last year in fall 2020 when she enrolled at Virginia Commonwealth University. She’d been looking forward to college since she was young and dreaming about theater. But Schiano didn’t know she would develop an eating disorder in high school, and […]July 26, 2021Other NewsMaryland Launches $1 Million COVID-19 Vaccination Scholarship ProgramMaryland Gov. Hogan announced earlier this month, the launch of the $1 million VaxU scholarship program. The effort is to incentivize those eligible, kids between 12-17 to get vaccinated against COVID-19, the governor said. Anyone between those ages who was vaccinated in the state is automatically entered to win. Winners will receive a $50,000 scholarship […]July 26, 2021Other NewsACCT Offers New Ways for Rural and Tribal Colleges to Connect and GrowRural colleges and Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) could be strengthened by federal and statewide efforts to make broadband connection a telecommunications utility, through better funding, and more support for student’s basic mental health care needs. That’s the findings of the Association of Community College Trustees (AACT), who spent 18 months researching the issue at […]July 19, 2021Other NewsCoping with Mental Health Concerns Amid COVID-19I currently live with anxiety and depression. I have lived with mental health concerns for over ten years, and I am still ok. Before the COVID-19 pandemic, I would not have been able to publicly admit the first line of this article because of feelings of embarrassment and shame. However, by acknowledging my mental health […]July 19, 2021Other NewsNational Community-Based Health Teams Reflect on Equity in COVID-19 Vaccination EffortsA group of public health researchers across the country recently convened to discuss their work and outreach efforts around the coronavirus pandemic in African American and Latino communities, both rural and urban. It’s no secret that COVID-19 has ravaged low-income communities of color at disproportionate rates. As a result, many public health officials are strategizing […]July 19, 2021Other NewsSteve Fund, JED’s Equity in Mental Health Framework Shows Promising ResultsStudents of color are almost twice as likely to not seek mental health care, compared to White students, according to the Steve Fund, a mental health nonprofit devoted to young people of color, and The Jed Foundation, a nonprofit devoted to preventing suicide. That’s why, in 2017, the two nonprofits provided institutions with a set […]July 19, 2021Other NewsN.J. To Distribute $30M More in Federal COVID Aid to Colleges and UniversitiesNew Jersey is doling out $30 million more in federal aid to help its colleges and universities recover from the coronavirus pandemic and prepare for the future. The majority of the funding, $28.5 million, will go to nearly three dozen schools that applied to the state’s competitive grant program, “Opportunity Meets Innovation Challenge,” in which the money […]July 12, 2021Other NewsStudy Shows 42 Percent of Incoming College Freshmen Say the Pandemic Influenced Their Choice in MajorMILWAUKEE — The pandemic is affecting our college freshmen’s choice of major. Statistics builder Intelligent surveyed more than 1,200 incoming college freshmen. Eleven of them were from Wisconsin. The survey shows 42-percent of incoming freshmen said the pandemic did influence their choice of major. More students are wanting to pursue the legal area, as well as […]July 12, 2021Other NewsArizona’s Ban on Mask Mandates in Schools Criticized by Health ExpertsPHOENIX – Health experts are concerned that Arizona’s recently approved budget, which bans public schools and universities from enforcing mask mandates and COVID-19 testing for unvaccinated students, is endangering public health across the state. In a virtual panel assembled by the Committee to Protect Health Care, a national advocacy organization that aims to “fight for […]July 12, 2021Previous PagePage 2 of 309Next Page