Black women faculty represent a small percentage of full-time faculty in higher education and are often invisible, marginalized, and expected to perform duties beyond teaching, research, and service. Yet, their success in higher education positions them as possibility models for change on their campuses. The purpose of this study is to investigate the experiences of three Black women faculty who teach in graduate education programs. Specifically, we examined how teaching using culturally relevant practices may cause Black women faculty to negotiate their identity within higher education organizational structures. Using a theoretical framework informed by Black feminism and the Culturally Relevant Leadership Learning Model, three salient themes were identified: roles and responsibilities, resistance, and limitations within the academy. Implications for practice include the creation of identity specific support for Black women faculty and attention be given to faculty and student readiness prior to engaging in culturally relevant practices beyond critical self-reflection.

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Background Early recognition of high-risk patients with COVID-19 may improve outcomes. Although many predictive scoring systems exist, their complexity may limit utility in COVID-19. We assessed the prognostic performance of the National Early Warning Score (NEWS) and an age-based modification (NEWS+age) among hospitalized COVID-19 patients enrolled in a prospective, multicenter U.S. Military Health System (MHS) observational cohort study. Methods Hospitalized adults with confirmed COVID-19 not requiring invasive mechanical ventilation at admission and a baseline NEWS were included. We analyzed each scoring system’s ability to predict key clinical outcomes, including progression to invasive ventilation or death, stratified by baseline severity (low (0-3), medium (4-6) and high (≥7)). Results Among 184 included participants, those with low baseline NEWS had significantly shorter hospitalizations (p<0.01) and lower maximum illness severity (p<0.001). Most (80.2%) of low NEWS versus 15.8% of high NEWS participants required no or at most low flow oxygen supplementation. Low NEWS (≤3) had a negative predictive value of 97.2% for progression to invasive ventilation or death; a high NEWS (≥7) had high specificity (93.1%) but low positive predictive value (42.1%) for such progression. NEWS+age performed similarly to NEWS at predicting invasive ventilation or death (NEWS+age: AUROC 0.69; 95% CI 0.65-0.73; NEWS: AUROC 0.70; 0.66-0.75). Conclusions NEWS and NEWS+age showed similar test characteristics in an MHS COVID-19 cohort. Notably, low baseline scores had excellent negative predictive value. Given their easy applicability, these scoring systems may be useful in resource-limited settings to identify COVID-19 patients who are unlikely to progress to critical illness.

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