Rioters storm the U.S. Capitol Wednesday following a rally with President Donald Trump.
College and university leaders across the country responded to the violent chaos at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday using unusually strong terms for higher education leaders. Many college presidents said they were saddened and frightened by the sight of supporters of President Donald Trump storming the U.S. Capitol and condemned the rioters’ actions on Twitter and in statements or emails to students and employees. I want to be clear: the storming of the Capitol complex is not merely a brazen act by a relatively small group of instigators. It is the direct result of a campaign to sow mistrust in our democracy and to overturn an election that was by all reasonable accounts conducted freely and fairly, Vincent Price, president of Duke University in Durham, N.C., said in an email to the campus. These events are made all the more shameful by their futility they are based on falsehoods and conspira
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Irvine, Calif., Jan. 6, 2021 In the United States, Black, Latino and low-income communities have historically lacked nearby access to pharmacy services. To provide the first record of these pharmacy deserts in Los Angeles County, a University of California, Irvine study identified communities where the nearest pharmacy was at least one mile away.
Unlike previous studies, this one describes pharmacy deserts in terms of social determinants of health - such as owning a vehicle, crime rates and poverty - to determine which communities have the greatest need for pharmacy access. Published in the
Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities, it is the first study to look at pharmacy deserts in the state of California.
Federal Reserve Board appoints Brown president chair of Boston Fed board
Christina H. Paxson, an economist, higher education leader and president of Brown University, will serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston s board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] Brown University President Christina H. Paxson, an economist and professor of economics and public policy, has been appointed to serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2021.
The Federal Reserve Board noted Paxson’s appointment in announcing on Dec. 23 the chairs and deputy chairs for each of the 12 Federal Reserve Banks across the nation. Paxson has served as a member of the Boston Fed’s board of directors since 2016 and as deputy chair since January 2019.
Congress s coronavirus package gives less aid to wealthy universities.
After President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos criticized giving private colleges and universities with large endowments help in the CARES Act, wealthier institutions like Harvard, Yale and Stanford Universities had their share of the money in the latest coronavirus relief package cut in half.
Under a little-noticed provision in the bill passed two weeks ago, private higher education institutions that were required by a 2017 law to pay a 1.4 percent excise tax on net investment income not only had their aid slashed, they were barred from using the money they will get to defray their financial losses from the pandemic. The relief bill allows them only to use the aid on emergency grants to students or to pay for personal protective equipment and other health and safety costs associated with the coronavirus. Higher education received about $23 billion in the legislation.
In 2018, a group of mostly European funders sent shock waves through the world of scientific publishing by proposing an unprecedented rule: The scientists they funded would be required to make journal articles developed with their support immediately free to read when published.
The new requirement, which takes effect starting this month, seeks to upend decades of tradition in scientific publishing, whereby scientists publish their research in journals for free and publishers make money by charging universities and other institutions for subscriptions. Advocates of the new scheme, called Plan S (the “S” stands for the intended “shock” to the status quo), hope to destroy subscription paywalls and speed scientific progress by allowing findings to be shared more freely. It’s part of a larger shift in scientific communication that began more than 20 years ago and has recently picked up steam.