Good news came out of Olympia last week, as well as Boise more than two weeks ago. COVID-19 vaccine availability has increased to the point where basically anyone who needs to get the jab can. Itâs paid for as well, so in order to do my part to get back to normal â and I mean REAL normal â I… More Headlines
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These Black women are on the frontlines of the fight against Covid-19
They have administered Covid-19 vaccines on college campuses, provided testing at churches and spent long hours in labs developing an effective vaccine.
Some have given up their regular jobs and personal free time to do this work.
Black women have been at the helm of the nation’s fight against the pandemic since the coronavirus hit US soil a little over one year ago.
For many of them, it’s personal. Black women doctors and health advocates tell CNN they feel obligated to step up as people from their own communities face higher death and hospitalization rates.
If you didn’t pass advanced math, chemistry and physics in high school, it is unlikely that you can succeed in today’s high-demand fields: accounting, computer science, engineering, nursing and a host of STEM disciplines.
In fact, one of the reasons why a disproportionate share of men drop out of college is because of a misguided belief that they can succeed in fields for which they were ill prepared in high school. Persistence and perseverance may be ethical virtues, but these can be counterproductive if the end result is to instill a sense of failure.
At many campuses, the single best predictor of whether a student will drop out or transfer is whether they are closed out of their top-choice major.