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Anthology on Racism, the Black Experience, and Privilege
Get PDFRACISM IN YOUR LIFE
The depth, impact, and experience of “racism” in our personal lives is a story that we do not often tell. These are predominantly private matters, only occasionally shared and with only certain people in our lives. Unfortunately, many people in our world are unaware of its full existence and do not know the truth about the experiences of racism in our daily lives. Without knowledge of these truths, society, including university leadership, cannot make adequate advancements to address these demoralizing experiences of people of color. In this anthology, writings on this subject will bring clarity, truth, and definition to the racism in the life of seven students.
THE BLACK EXPERIENCE PROJECT
In an effort to significantly elevate awareness and a depth of understanding about the world and uniqueness of Black life in America, telling one’s personal story about what it is like being Black in America will contribute to greater enlightenment and awareness by others. Perhaps, analogues on the experience of Black life may lead to further dialogue and more meaningful long term institutional changes. Our Black experiences are deeply rooted, sometimes complex to describe, individualized, and threaded in the many fabrics of our physical, spiritual, emotional, cognitive, and historical existence. What is it like be a Black person, your uniqueness, ‘walking in your shoes’, in your skin, and in your mind? These thirteen writings entail deep contemplation and personal introspective examinations necessary to describe what one’s world and life is like as a Black woman or man.
WHITE PRIVILEGE…BLACK PRIVILEGE
According to the Aspen Institute, White privilege, or “historically accumulated white privilege,” refers to whites’ historical and contemporary advantages in access to quality education, decent jobs, livable wages, homeownership, retirement benefits, wealth and so on. White privilege is an invisible package of unearned assets which I can count on cashing in every day, but about which I was meant to remain oblivious.” (Source: Peggy Macintosh, “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack.” excerpted from Working Paper #189 White Privilege and Male Privilege a Personal Account of Coming to See, Correspondences through Work in Women’s Studies. Wellesley, MA: Wellesley College Center for the Study of Women, 1989). This set of anthologies consists of eleven writings that inspect the existence of white and Black privilege in the student writers’ lives and reveal their perspectives and struggles upon this construct.https://mds.marshall.edu/mu_ebooks/1003/thumbnail.jp
Effects of the Needle Exchange Program and Its Current Status In West Virginia
Get PDFExcerpt: One of the main problems that have impacted the state of healthcare in West Virginia has been the rising costs of treatments for bloodborne infections (Bates et al., 2019). Bloodborne pathogens and their resulting diseases have commonly spread by exchanging contaminated needles (Denault & Gardner, 2021). In West Virginia, Needle Exchange Programs (NEPs) have been implemented to reduce the transmission of certain infections, such as HIV, hepatitis B, and hepatitis C, which have been more common among drug users (Beck & Kersey, 2018). In 2015, West Virginia had the second-highest rate of cases of hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in the country (3.4 per 100,000) (Davis et al., 2018). The overdose rate has drastically increased over the last decade in the US (Dasgupta et al., 2018). In 2015, West Virginia had the highest overdose rate of 33,091, accounting for 41.5 deaths per 100,000 people (Hedegaard et al., 2017). The HIV rate increased by over 300% in West Virginia, between 2007 and 2015, with the most frequently indicated risk factors for acquiring HIV infections being used drugs distributed on the street and injection drug use (Rudd et al., 2016)
Navigating the Path to Safe Compounding in Health Systems
Get PDFAcross the country health systems are facing increasing drug shortages that are forcing pharmacists to rely far more heavily on compounding to meet the needs of patients. Additionally, several high-profile compounding incidents have helped highlight the importance of ensuring best practices are followed during sterile and nonsterile compounding to support patient safety and high-quality care. Specifically, in 2022, 160 drug shortages were reported in pharmacies. From January 1, 2023, to March 31, 2023, 47 drug shortages were reported, 55% of which were for injectables. In response, compounding has increasingly become a solution to bridge that gap
Undated Photo of Chuck Yeager
No full textUndated photo of Chuck Yeager with two unidentified individuals.https://mds.marshall.edu/yeager/1245/thumbnail.jp
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
No full textGirl Scouts working on a badge during Girl Scout Badge College, December 16, 2023, on the Marshall University, Huntington campus.https://mds.marshall.edu/bd_girl_scout_badge_college_2023/1006/thumbnail.jp
Girl Scouts of Black Diamond Council
No full textGirl Scouts working on a badge during Girl Scout Badge College, December 16, 2023, on the Marshall University, Huntington campus.https://mds.marshall.edu/bd_girl_scout_badge_college_2023/1015/thumbnail.jp