cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupBig Jump in Job Program for Foreign Graduates of US CollegesWASHINGTON— A program that allows foreign students to stay in the United States for temporary employment after graduation has expanded significantly over a dozen years as technical companies stepped up hiring of science and engineering majors, according to a report released Thursday. The study by Pew Research Center in Washington comes as colleges and universities […]May 10, 2018News RoundupUniversity of California Nurses, Cooks Strike for Third DaySAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of University of California nurses, pharmacists and other medical staff joined walkouts by service workers again Wednesday, forcing medical centers to close and reschedule thousands of appointments and surgeries. The three-day strike was called last week by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 when the union and […]May 9, 2018News RoundupAmid #MeToo, More Colleges Host Women As Graduation SpeakersThis graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]May 9, 2018News RoundupDavid Hogg Is Postponing College to Push Gun ControlPARKLAND, Fla. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg says he wants voters to know which lawmakers are backed by the National Rifle Association before the mid-term elections. The #NeverAgain leader and high school senior says he’s postponing college for a year to engage in gun-reform activism, focusing mostly on getting students and others registered […]May 9, 2018News RoundupAfrican King to Give Commencement Speech at Ohio UniversitySPRINGFIELD, Ohio — An African monarch with a special connection to a small Ohio university will visit to give the school’s commencement speech. The Springfield News-Sun reports Lesotho’s King Letsie III will travel to Springfield to speak at Wittenberg University Saturday. Wittenberg history professor Scott Rosenberg has taken hundreds of students on service trips to […]May 8, 2018News RoundupMexican Authorities Dispute U.S. College Student Was MurderedBOSTON – The family of an American college student who died on spring break in Mexico says he was murdered, but Mexican authorities say that’s untrue. The Mexican government told The Boston Globe Monday that Amherst College senior Andrew Dorogi was found dead on train tracks in Mexico City on March 15. The government says […]May 8, 2018News RoundupCharles Steger, Former Virginia Tech President, Dies at 70RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia Tech President Charles Steger Jr., who led the institution through a period of great change and faced both criticism and praise for his leadership during a 2007 mass shooting, has died, the university announced Monday. He was 70. Steger, a Virginia Tech graduate who spent most of his professional […]May 8, 2018News RoundupCommunity College Classes Resume After Shooting ThreatHOUSTON – Houston Community College Central Campus will reopen for business as usual Wednesday after it was closed Monday and Tuesday while authorities investigated a shooting threat made on social media over the weekend. Finals will resume as scheduled with the exception of the Monday, May 7, exams, which are postponed to Friday, and the […]May 8, 2018Leadership & PolicyWho Is An Effective Community College Leader?There are few books that I looked forward to reading as much as Cheryl L. Hyman’s Reinvention: The Promise and Challenge of Transforming a Community College System.May 8, 2018WomenProfessor Explores Dark Side of the Anti-Trafficking MovementA rising young academic, Dr. Elena Shih — assistant professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University and faculty affiliate in sociology at the Watson Institute for International Studies — examines complex issues surrounding women’s lives and survival. By this summer’s end, Shih will complete writing her book Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue, Rehabilitation, […]May 8, 2018Previous PagePage 354 of 3225Next Page
