cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.News RoundupStudy: One-fifth of Americans Find Workplace Hostile or ThreateningWASHINGTON — The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile. So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the findings: Nearly one in five workers — a share the study calls “disturbingly high” — say they face a […]August 14, 2017StudentsRivier University Continues Job Guarantee Program for Second YearNASHUA, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Rivier University is continuing with its promise to graduates that they will find employment nine months after graduation. The university’s Employment Promise Program, now i its second year, promises full-time undergraduate students that they will land a job within nine months of graduation. If not, the school will either pay […]August 14, 2017News RoundupTexas Lawmakers Want A&M to Block White Nationalist RallyCOLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University has criticized the views of a White nationalist who is planning a “White lives matter” rally on campus next month, but lawmakers in the state Legislature are calling on the school to go farther and block the event entirely. A&M spokeswoman Amy Smith told The Battalion student newspaper […]August 14, 2017HomeExpert: Diversifying Cybersecurity Starts with ‘Targeted Recruiting’In order to diversify the growing field of cybersecurity, employers must do more “targeted recruiting” at colleges and universities that are diverse themselves. That advice comes from Debora Plunkett, a retired National Security Agency executive and adjunct cybersecurity professor at the University of Maryland University College, or UMUCAugust 13, 2017HomeInstitutions Tackle Rising Tuition CostsThere’s no denying that college costs have risen dramatically over the past several decades. The average cost of tuition at a private college was $33,480 in 2016-2017, according to the College Board. In 1996, it was an average of $12,823.August 13, 2017OpinionAlternative Facts and Faulty Citations: Urging Students to Use the LibraryLike many others who have not been living in a dark-tinted bubble for the past year, I have noticed that it has become increasingly difficult at times to differentiate between fact and fiction when reading U.S. news headlines.August 13, 2017HBCUsHBCU and Congressional Leaders Push Trump Administration to Fill Key PostNow that the White House Initiative on historically Black Colleges and Universities has remained leaderless for longer than it has under any previous administration, a chorus of HBCU advocates and some lawmakers are increasingly of the mind that the Trump administration has failed to make good on its promise to HBCUsAugust 13, 2017News RoundupLouisville Appeals ‘Draconian’ NCAA Penalties in Escort CaseLouisville said the NCAA “abused” its authority when it disciplined the school for a sex scandal that could result in the loss of its 2013 national basketball championship. The school also said in a 68-page appeal released Friday that the governing body imposed “draconian” penalties and ignored the school’s self-imposed discipline. Louisville banned itself from […]August 13, 2017News Roundup3 Dead, Dozens Injured, Amid Violent White Nationalist RallyCHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.–A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation’s roiling racial and political divisions. The chaos […]August 13, 2017HomeFuture of UNC Center for Civil Rights Remains UncertainAfter 16 years of providing legal relief to North Carolina’s most vulnerable residents, the future of the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights hangs in the balance. A UNC Board of Governors committee voted 5 to 1 to recommend a policy banning litigation by UNC centers and institutes.August 10, 2017Previous PagePage 467 of 3225Next Page
