This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Miami Dolphins aren’t just about football, the organization is also about helping the South Florida community with its Social Justice Grant Program and Project Change scholarship. Applications are now being accepted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There’s no apparent pattern for sexual-misconduct punishment at Yale, based on public reports reviewed by Business Insider. More than 60 formal sexual-assault complaints have gone through Yale’s UWC process since 2011. When…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The abolitionist, statesman and civil rights leader Frederick Douglass said that denying a person an education means adding another link in the chain of their servitude. Whenever I hear the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Far too few minority students pursue or complete their education beyond high school. Instead of dreaming about where they want to attend college, or what they want to study, many…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Overshadowed by attention to the challenges faced by nonwhite high school graduates in cities, low-income black, Hispanic and Native American students in rural areas are equally unlikely to go on…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, disconcertingly, there are a number of signs that the U.S. university system is in decline, even while these other attributes continue to flourish. One measure of the health of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The Haas Social Impact Fund (HSIF) was founded in 2004 by Berkeley Haas MBA students interested in social sector careers. HSIF provides grants to first-year, full-time MBA students who accept…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Joshua Ibarra is a fourth-year journalism and Japanese language student at East Los Angeles College. He takes four courses and walks to and from class across the 82-acre campus in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Patient-centered care initiatives often aim to increase patients’ health literacy, encourage them to participate more actively in treatment decisions, and create a less stressful care delivery environment for them. Increasingly,…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. There are wide, stubborn economic gaps between black and white households in the U.S. Why? Many factors are at work, of course, including lower rates of upward mobility, discrimination in…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A few years ago, Michelle Hebl attended the latest in a series of talks hosted by her department at Rice University. The speaker was a man, and Hebl realized that…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A program that supports low-income college students with intensive data tracking and financial and social supports is helping to close the achievement gap by improving graduation rates and overall college…