Covid vaccination needed for fall enrollment at N.Y. universities
15 May 2021, 15:39 GMT+10
NEW YORK CITY, New York: The 435,000 students enrolled at the State University of New York and the City University of New York must have received the Coronavirus vaccination if they wish to attend classes in the fall.
The requirement comes as officials see a drop throughout the state of people being vaccinated. So, today, no excuses, New York governor Governor Andrew Cuomo said at a briefing during the week. SUNY and CUNY boards will require vaccinations for all in-person students coming back to school in the fall.
Cuomo also said that riders of New York City s subways will receive free seven-day passes after being inoculated. Further, vaccinations will be administered at some subway stations.
The Chief of Staff to the President has managed to keep his head above turbulent waters, writes Sanya Onayoade
Professor Ibrahim Gambari is one of the greatest diplomats that have shaped the international status of Nigeria since independence. But restricting his influence to the diplomatic circle will be a disservice to a man whose towering status straddles many spheres of life. He is simply an enigma venerated home and abroad.
Away from his global shuttles as an envoy with multiple portfolios, he berthed in Aso Villa, Abuja, on May 13, last year, armed with the Presidency’s most strategic task: Chief of Staff to the President. As he marks his one year in office, the reflections since his time in the saddle will be an admixture of the pleasant and the not so pleasant. His stint has never been a stroll in the park, and may not be in the near future unless the insecurity pervading the nation is nipped. But men of steel are produced at times like this.
One in three college students is food insecure in the United States
Since the onset of the pandemic, food insecurity has skyrocketed throughout the United States. One of the hardest hit segments of the population has been students in higher education. Food insecurity now affects one-in-three college students.
According to a survey conducted during the fall 2020 semester from Chegg.org, the research and advocacy arm of the course materials and services company Chegg, nearly one third (29 percent) of students have missed a meal at least once a week since the beginning of the pandemic. In addition, more than half of all students (52 percent) sometimes use off-campus food banks, and 30 percent use them once a month or more.
But that’s in theory. In practice, at IUPUI and elsewhere, many professors who do significant amounts of DEI work say that when it comes to tenure and promotion, they have to contort their efforts into the language of traditional teaching, research and service and hope for the best. Sometimes this works. Sometimes it doesn’t. In such cases, reviewers don’t see DEI-related work as grounds for promotion.
As a result, academe has lost either through attrition or tenure denials untold numbers of scholars devoted to DEI work. These professors are disproportionately likely to be from historically marginalized groups, so the trend doesn’t bode well for academe’s diversity goals. And the cycle of tenured professors rewarding traditional definitions of teaching, research and service continues.