This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Every year, tens of millions of Americans avoid the flu vaccine. During the 2019-2020 flu season, fewer than half of U.S. adults got the shot. The Latino population is more…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The world still has a long way to go before reaching gender equality, according to new research. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) published The Social Institutions and Gender Index…
I strongly believe that finding motivation to learn online is an issue most students are facing, and I have seen firsthand how my peers and I are not as engaged…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Female leaders who have stood out for their handling of the coronavirus earned honors on Tuesday in the annual Forbes list of the world’s 100 most powerful women, which highlighted…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Tamra Burns Loeb, UCLA School of Medicine and Dorothy Chin, UCLA School of Medicine The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the reality that health in the U.S. has glaring racial inequities.…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. The pace of social and economic shifts often exceeds the capacity of communities and individuals to adapt to them. In the wake of centuries of structural racism and decades of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Today, CEP released the second report in a three-part series about foundations’ responses to the crises of 2020. Foundations Respond to Crisis: Toward Equity? focuses on how foundations have changed their practices…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. As the approaching rollout of a COVID-19 vaccine brings hope of an eventual end to the pandemic, it also introduces ethical dilemmas. With various groups of Americans at heightened risk of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. My name is Navendu Mishra, and I’m a grassroots activist from Seoni district, Madhya Pradesh and the co-founder of Agrini Samaj Kalyan Samiti, a nonprofit working on education, leadership building, and…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Wesley Kufel, Binghamton University, State University of New York The first U.S. COVID-19 vaccines are expected in clinics in mid-December, and states are drawing up plans for who should get…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Anti-stigma interventions that promote acceptance and empathy can reduce experiences of violence and bullying among students with mental illnesses, a new study shows. For the study in the Journal of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Throughout this period of political chaos and a global pandemic, students have continuously been asked to adapt to the “new normal.” Though this pressure affects everyone, we have found it…