African American distrust of medicine has consequences for treatment seeking and healthcare behaviour. Much work has been done to examine acute events (eg, Tuskegee Syphilis Study) that have contributed to this phenomenon and a sophisticated bioethics discipline keeps watch on current practices by medicine. But physicians and clinicians are not the only actors in the medical arena, particularly...

Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been incorporating sustainability into education and curricula, where recent research has focussed on competences, pedagogical approaches, how to connect them, generally a single HEI. The process of integrating based curricula assessment explained using adoption innovations; the potential explain developing competences through approaches. aim this paper...

The need to increase the number of college graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) disciplines is a national issue. As the demographics of the United States' population grow increasingly more diverse, the recognition that students of color are disproportionately under-represented among those individuals successful at completing STEM degrees requires exigent and sus...

Although the vast majority of law school graduates are practising lawyers (or judges), the place of law schools at universities is never questioned. Law schools are clearly professional schools charged with the task of conveying the knowledge, the skills and also the ethical commitments germane to the legal vocation. But is law really an academic discipline? At first glance, the answer is obvio...