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According to a recent college sports diversity report by Dr. Richard Lapchick, white men held 78.9 percent of the 128 athletics director positions at FBS schools, white women held 7.0 percent of the jobs and athletics directors of color 14.1 percent. What was missing in the report (titled Assessing Diversity among Campus and Conference Leaders for Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) Schools in the 2016-17 Academic Year)?

K.L.A.S. T.V. 8 News Now

Nevada ranks fourth worst out of 50 states when it comes to the number of doctors per capita. Two of Nevada's representatives on Capitol Hill are trying to change that and hoping to bump the state's standing higher up on that list. Representatives Ruben Kihuen and Jacky Rosen are co-sponsoring a bill that would boost federal funding to provide more residency opportunities for new doctors nationwide including in the Las Vegas area.

The Daily Meal

Intriguingly, in a report assessing health care opportunities and outcomes in all 50 states, Hawaii ranked number one. We often talk about “American health care” like it’s a nationwide thing, but it actually varies a whole lot from state to state. Not to say you should pack up and move just for the health care, but if you’re looking to save some of your hard-earned cash on medical bills, it should probably be a factor.

EdTech

As more states adopt funding formulas based on student performance — such as graduation rates and degrees awarded — higher education institutions are ­laser-focused on improving retention. Regardless of state policy, however, such strategies make fiscal sense: Enrolling a new student is more expensive than retaining a current one. To both control those costs and serve students more effectively, many institutions leverage data analytics.

The New York Times

My former co-worker once drank so much during a waitressing shift, she stumbled through the restaurant with her intoxication on full display to guests. Even the chaos of the service rush couldn’t hide the state she was in. By closing she was fired.

Alpenhorn News

At its August 9 regular meeting, Lake Arrowhead Community Services District (LACSD) heard from experts on recycled water about their interest in conducting a study using Lake Arrowhead to “evaluate approaches to determine mixing and assimilation of recycled water.”

Las Vegas Sun

Cedric Cormier seemed to always be in the stands for the most important high school basketball game of the night. Every time I stepped into a gym, he was already there. He had just moved to Las Vegas to join the UNLV football coaching staff. I assumed the wide receiver coach was attending games as part of his recruiting elevation process because the Rebels had signed a prospect who also played basketball.

Las Vegas Sun

Emmy Awards are often the shining point of a career for those in broadcast media. A group of UNLV journalism students netted the prestigious award for work they conducted before graduating college.

UnDark

There is a memorable episode in the now-classic sitcom Scrubs in which the conniving Dr. Kelso unveils a plan to peddle useless “full body scans” as a new revenue stream for the perpetually cash-strapped Sacred Heart Hospital. The irascible but ultimately patient-protecting Dr. Cox objects loudly. “I think showing perfectly healthy people every harmless imperfection in their body just to scare them into taking invasive and often pointless tests is an unholy sin,” he says. Undeterred, Kelso launches an advertising campaign that promotes the scans in a tear-jerking television commercial and a billboard screaming “YOU may already be DYING.”

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