Melissa Click’s firing undermined University of Missouri administrators’ authority and was more likely a result of political pressure for her removal than her actual offenses, a report from the American Association of University Professors concludes.
Several members of the University of Connecticut’s governing board were presented Wednesday with a $1.33 billion budget proposal that increases spending by $24.5 million — a 2 percent increase.
UConn expects its revenue to increase by roughly the same amount, largely because of tuition and fee increases.
If members of a public university’s governing board discuss the school’s proposed spending and revenue plan and keep out members of the public, were they barred from a public meeting? For officials at the University of Connecticut the answer to that question for years has been “no.”
Doctors are about the closest thing we have to superheroes in real life. But must they also be super-human? Specifically, can people in the medical profession somehow get by on way less than the seven to nine hours a night that ordinary people require?
When Linda Barry was in medical school, she was one of the few women and African Americans in her class. A 2011 study from the National Institute of Health revealed a large deficit in funding for minority students in science compared with white
Empowerment is critical for public health. The empowerment of women translates to health for all members of society. Community empowerment enables access to affordable health care, decent housing, and public safety. Unions are the organizations through which workers collectively become empowered. But today unions are under attack and in decline. Two articles in this issue of AJPH demonstrate why this is a threat to public health.