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NIH notice prohibits grant awardees from operating programs that promote DEI

NIH, in a recent notice, prohibits grant recipients from operating programs that promote DEI or “discriminatory equity ideology,” or engage in “discriminatory prohibited boycott.” 
April 25, 2025
Vol.51 No.16
By Jacquelyn Cobb
Cancer Policy

Federal judges rule that Department of Education policy ordering universities to end DEI programs a violation of educators’ free speech

Federal judges in Maryland, New Hampshire and Washington, DC, blocked the Trump administration from following through on threats to cut off funding to universities that engage in DEI efforts.
April 25, 2025
Vol.51 No.16
By Jacquelyn Cobb
Plan to Enhance Diversity is no longer a part of CCSG application
Cancer Policy

Plan to Enhance Diversity is no longer a part of CCSG application

The latest notice of a funding opportunity for the Cancer Center Support Grants released by NCI no longer requires submission of a Plan to Enhance Diversity. 
April 11, 2025
Vol.51 No.14
The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE guides cancer care in rural America
PodcastThe Directors

The Directors: Ray DuBois and Roy Jensen on how COE guides cancer care in rural America
“We’re just going to have to ride through this and not give up.”

How are cancer centers in two rural states—Kansas and South Carolina—weathering the challenges of Trump-era belt-tightening and uncertainty? Their directors weigh in on The Cancer Letter Podcast.
March 14, 2025
Vol.51 No.10
By Paul Goldberg
Brian Rivers: Celebrating Black history reinforces the dynamic culture of America
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Brian Rivers: Celebrating Black history reinforces the dynamic culture of America
“It gives America, in part, its identity.”

Nearly 30 years ago, while completing an assignment for his master’s degree in public health, Brian Rivers discovered he had a family history of prostate cancer. 
February 21, 2025
Vol.51 No.07
By Jacquelyn Cobb
In The Headlines: Trump moves to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%, HHS agencies webpages removed
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In The Headlines: Trump moves to cap NIH indirect costs at 15%, HHS agencies webpages removed

In this episode of In the Headlines, Paul Goldberg, publisher of The Cancer Letter, and Jacquelyn Cobb, associate editor, discuss the “doomsday scenario” facing academic cancer centers that would follow the success of President Trump’s move to limit indirect costs to 15% for NIH-funded institutions. 
February 14, 2025
Vol.51 No.05
Rooting out the “illegal and immoral discrimination” of DEI is the first order of business for Trump
White House

Rooting out the “illegal and immoral discrimination” of DEI is the first order of business for Trump

Surprised was the last thing anyone should claim to be as the Trump administration, on its first day, smashed the federal government’s diversity equity and inclusion offices, literally sending employees who administer these programs packing and making plans for their prompt firing.
January 24, 2025
Vol.51 No.03
By Paul Goldberg
In Brief

Chapman-Davis, Romero Arenas, and Guzman named to Meyer Cancer Center inaugural DEI leadership team

​​The Sandra and Edward Meyer Cancer Center of Weill Cornell Medicine and New York-Presbyterian Hospital has appointed a trio of physicians and researchers to oversee the center’s first Office of Diversity Equity and Inclusion: Eloise Chapman-Davis, Minerva A. Romero Arenas, and Monica L. Guzman.
September 20, 2024
Vol.50 No.35
Cancer centers, health providers should clearly signal that they welcome LGBTQI+ patients
FreeGuest Editorial

Cancer centers, health providers should clearly signal that they welcome LGBTQI+ patients

So far in 2024, 516 anti-queer bills have been introduced in state legislatures across the country, part of a coordinated effort where bills getting traction in one state are soon parroted by legislators in others. 
June 14, 2024
Vol.50 No.24
By NFN Scout
Most cancer centers provide paltry resources for meeting NCI’s CCSG mandate to enhance diversity, study shows

Most cancer centers provide paltry resources for meeting NCI’s CCSG mandate to enhance diversity, study shows

Directors of NCI-designated cancer centers are facing a new set of challenges in a polarizing, high-stakes election year. 
June 07, 2024
Vol.50 No.23
By Matthew Bin Han Ong

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