Today, the University of Arizona joined 38 higher education institutions and partner organizations to launch the Taskforce on Higher Education and Opportunity. The University of Arizona and task force member partners are driven to act by the challenges caused by the pandemic, income inequality, the changing nature of work and levels of unemployment among recent college graduates nearly double those seen in the 2008 recession. The impact of this crisis is falling unevenly across groups and disproportionately impacting people of color, no matter their educational backgrounds. The task force will provide greater opportunity to students and communities, while reimagining higher education s contribution to society and sharing insights with the broader education community.
Hosts Dave DeWitt and Leoneda Inge report on the effort to rename a building on the campus of a North Carolina university, and why faculty leading that charge say the change will help undo a harmful history in the South.
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Thromboembolic and bleeding risk has been cited by a number of countries in halting use of AstraZeneca s COVID-19 vaccine, but the company and health agencies argued against a causal link.
Denmark and Norway were first to stop administering AstraZeneca s vaccine last week over isolated cases of bleeding, blood clots, and low platelet count. Others followed.
Germany and France on Monday became the latest to announce a pause in administration. Germany cited seven cases of cerebral vein thrombosis among patients getting one of the 1.6 million AstraZeneca shots given there so far. German Health Minister Jens Spahn call this a very low risk but above average if confirmed to be linked to the vaccine.
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Died: February 22, 2021. LAWRENCE Ferlinghetti, who has died aged 101, was an American literary revolutionary who opened out the world of books to all. As a poet, his work possessed a pared-back directness and Zen simplicity. He wrote for the tongue as much as the page, and delivered his words in energetic sing-song tones that paved the way for spoken-word scenes to come. His 1958 collection, A Coney Island of the Mind, sold more than a million copies. He once said that “art should be accessible to all people, not just a handful of highly-educated intellectuals”. As a bookseller, his shop, City Lights, adopted a similarly egalitarian, open-all-hours approach that made it the nexus of San Francisco’s underground Beat scene in search of late-night literary fixes.