cmaadmin (EDU)Hi this is my profile and bio information.StudentsCampus ‘Free Speech’ Bill Backed by Louisianan LawmakersBATON ROUGE, La. — Legislation seeking to protect controversial speakers’ appearances at Louisiana colleges and calling on campuses to penalize students who disrupt them has won final passage from lawmakers, but only after its punishment provisions were watered down. Rep. Lance Harris, chairman of the House Republican Delegation, has said his bill is a response […]June 6, 2017LGBTQ+Campus Minister No Longer Faces Discipline for Same-sex WeddingIOWA CITY, Iowa — A United Methodist Church organization has decided not to discipline a University of Iowa campus minister who performed a same-sex wedding. The Appointive Cabinet of the Iowa Conference had filed a complaint against the Rev. Anna Blaedel, charging her with practices considered “to be incompatible with Christian teaching.” She’s executive director […]June 6, 2017Students3 Things Your Student Loan Servicer Might Not Tell YouStudent loan servicers, the companies that manage $1.4 trillion in federal and private loans, haven’t been earning much trust among borrowers. Sixty-four percent of the 44,400 student loan complaints the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau collected between July 2011 and March 2017 involved problems borrowers had with their lenders or servicers, including not informing them about […]June 6, 2017HomeA Month of MusicBlack Music Month began in 1979 when a group led by Kenny Gamble, half of the famous Gamble and Huff songwriting and music production team, developed the idea for the observance and pitched it to President Jimmy Carter, according to the National Museum of African-American Music.June 6, 2017StudentsRodriguez: Affirming a Macehual or Gente de Maiz IdentityA couple years ago, someone from California wrote me to tell me that: “Mexicans are taking over Chicano Studies.” Apparently, the person did not know I was born in Mexico. And they knew less about what this topic triggers within me. During the late 1960s and early 1970s, I did become part of the Chicano […]June 5, 2017StudentsNASFAA Offers Guidance to Displaced College StudentsThe National Association of Student Financial Aid Administrators has developed a website to benefit students whose colleges closed while they were enrolled or shortly after they withdrew.June 5, 2017StudentsCampus LGBTQ Organizations Hit Their StrideFaculty and staff LGBTQ caucuses, or standing committees as they are sometimes known, have been instrumental in encouraging college administrations to create more inclusive campus environments.June 5, 2017StudentsNewspaper: Harvard Pulls Student Offers Over Online CommentsBOSTON — At least 10 students who were accepted to Harvard University had their admission offers revoked because they made offensive comments online, the university’s student newspaper reported. The Harvard Crimson reported that some students in the incoming freshman class created a private Facebook group in December where they traded images and messages that were […]June 5, 2017StudentsSenators Say They’re Fighting to Protect Pell Grant ProgramWARWICK, R.I. — Rhode Island’s two Democratic U.S. senators said on Monday that they’re fighting to protect and expand the student financial aid program named for their predecessor Claiborne Pell. Pell Grants have been a fixture of federal financial aid since the 1970s, helping millions of low-income students attend college annually. Claiborne Pell, a former […]June 5, 2017StudentsClasses Resume After Threats at Evergreen State CollegeOLYMPIA, Wash. — Classes are resuming at a small college in Washington state after protests on the progressive campus attracted national attention – and threats. The Evergreen State College in Olympia announced on its website that it reopened its campus as of 3 p.m. Monday. Administrators didn’t immediately provide further explanation. The college had been […]June 5, 2017Previous PagePage 506 of 3225Next Page
