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Senator collins this hearing will come to order. Good afternoon it is my pleasure to convene this afternoons hearing to assess our nations progress in combating alzheimers since the enactment of the national alzheimers project act which i coauthored with then senator evan bayh in 2011. I dont need to tell the people in this room what a devastating disease alzheimers is. It exacts a tremendous personal and economic toll on the individual, the family and our society. In addition to the human suffering it causes, alzheimers costs the United States more than 226 billion a year including 153 billio...

EAU CLAIRE — A task force mandated by the UW System Board of Regents’ Education Committee found that student and employee caregivers — particularly women and people of color —

The truth is that faculty members experience the pandemic in very different ways. One person may feel that they have more time for research and that teaching is no more challenging online. Others may be in fields in which conducting their research is impossible and their teaching has been dramatically impaired. Unless faculty members can communicate honestly among themselves and with administrators, institutions will be unable to craft the right kinds of supports and revise deleterious practices. Our provost and two deans played a powerful role at a June 2020 ADVANCE-sponsored town hall with...