cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupNo Men Allowed: UVM Hosts Women-Only Debate ChampionshipThe first rule of a North American debate tournament to be held in Vermont this weekend: No men allowed. Some 150 debaters from 18 schools across the U.S. and Canada will compete in the special tournament, which is designed to be a safe space for women who complain of bias when they debate against men. […]April 3, 2018StudentsNUL: Higher Ed Act Renewal Must Address Barriers to Underserved StudentsAs Congress prepares for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the National Urban League says issues of access, affordability, completion and accountability for underrepresented students should be addressed.April 2, 2018OpinionPublic Outreach in an Anti-Knowledge MomentWe live in a time in which knowledge has been devalued. Ahistoricism is a central tenet of the current administration, and research-based evidence in both the social and natural sciences is regularly disregarded.April 2, 2018HomeSaluting the 2018 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports ScholarsRemembering Arthur Ashe Jr. on the 25th anniversary of his death.April 2, 2018News RoundupIndiana University Team Recording Shipwreck SitesBLOOMINGTON, Ind. – An Indiana University team is working to preserve and document shipwreck sites in the Florida Keys. The group from the university’s Center for Underwater Science will visit the site of a Spanish treasure fleet shipwreck from the 1700s this summer. The school has an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, […]April 2, 2018News RoundupAnti-Apartheid Activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Dies at 81JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist in her own right whose reputation was sullied by scandal, has died. She was 81. The woman many South Africans have described as the “Mother of the Nation” and a champion of the black majority died “surrounded by her family and loved ones,” according to […]April 2, 2018News RoundupCouple Donates Inuit Art, Money to University of MichiganANN ARBOR, Mich. – Two longtime University of Michigan donors have given their collection of Inuit art and $2 million to the school to create a program to support related exhibitions, education and outreach. The Ann Arbor university announced that Philip and Kathy Power have donated the collection of roughly 200 Inuit stone sculptures and prints […]April 2, 2018OpinionRemembering King’s Perspective On EducationFifty years ago this week, at age 39, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died as a result of an assassin’s bullet. The murder of this great American was one of the most traumatic events in the history of the United States and still reverberates within American society.April 1, 2018HomeResearchers Double Effort to Enroll Women in Breast-Disease StudyLeaders of a landmark study aimed at heightening the focus on family medical history and genetic drivers that put some women at higher risks than others for developing breast disease are ramping up efforts to add Black females to their hoped-for pool of 100,000 participants.April 1, 2018News RoundupAlabama Women Suing For Equal Pay Lack State ProtectionTUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Amy Heatherly believes she would have been paid at least $50,000 more to do her job over the past five years if she had been a man. As the only female human resources director overseeing compensation at the University of Alabama’s main campus, Heatherly said she knew for years she was getting […]April 1, 2018Previous PagePage 369 of 3225Next Page
