Monica Levitan (EDU)StudentsHarold O. Levy, Education Leader, Dies at 65Harold O. Levy, who served as the executive director of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation, died on Tuesday at his home in Manhattan due to ALS. He was 65. Levy was known as one of New York’s most well-known figures, previously working as the chancellor of New York City’s public school system from 2000 to […]November 29, 2018News RoundupWyoming Community Colleges ask Governor for Cost-of-Living Pay IncreasesOfficials from seven community colleges in Wyoming have sent a letter to Gov. Matt Mead requesting that he advocate for cost-of-living pay increases for their employees. The letter, which was delivered to Mead in September, said colleges are having a tough time recruiting and retaining well-qualified employees when their salary does not account for increasing […]November 29, 2018StudentsBowie State Launches Scholarship in Honor of Slain StudentBowie State University officials have created a new scholarship in honor of slain student 2nd Lt. Richard Collins III, in an effort to increase enrollment in Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) programs at Maryland historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Collins was fatally stabbed on the University of Maryland, College Park campus in May 2017 just […]November 29, 2018News RoundupPennsylvania State System of Higher Ed has $14M SurplusThe Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has $14 million it does not know what to do with, as a result of interest rates from a $191 million investment fund that took place in the 1990s. According to Penn Live, the state system refinanced a series of bond issues that at first had 5 to […]November 29, 2018News RoundupProgram Looks to Improve College Student Completion Rates in FloridaTake Stock in Children (TSIC), one of the country’s largest mentoring and college readiness organizations, has announced that it has established a new program aimed at improving the college completion rates of students attending a Florida college or university. The program, Take Stock in College, has a goal of increasing the completion rates of students […]November 29, 2018News RoundupSwastikas Painted on Wall Outside of Professor’s Office Triggers InvestigationDr. Elizabeth Midlarsky, a Jewish professor at Columbia University’s Teachers College who teaches and researches the Holocaust, was heading to her office on Wednesday when she found two swastikas, an painted on the walls outside her office. “I was in shock. I stopped for a moment, because I couldn’t believe what I was seeing,” Midlarsky […]November 29, 2018News RoundupData Shows Pay Gap Still Exist for British Women With DegreesA recent data analysis by the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) shows that women who attended a university in England benefit more than women without degrees who earn similar incomes of men in the same age group who didn’t attend university after high school. The data that was used in the analysis comes from longitudinal […]November 28, 2018WomenReport Shows Continued Discrimination for Women, People of Color in U.S. BusinessesA recent research report by Bentley University’s Gloria Cordes Larson Center for Women and Business (CWB) details the reasons why women and women of color are disappearing from the career pipeline. Such factors include structural barriers and unconscious bias against working mothers. Using research and media coverage, the CWB found that entry-level women make 20 […]November 28, 2018WomenMichigan State University Police Department Appoints First Female ChiefDeputy Chief Kelly Roudebush, a 24-year veteran of the Michigan State University Police Department will make history and become the first woman to be the chief of the department, effective Jan. 1, 2019. Roudebush has previously served in the department as a field training officer, canine handler, threat assessment team commander, and uniform division captain, […]November 28, 2018News RoundupMt. Ida College Sued by Three Former StudentsThree former Mt. Ida College students have filed a lawsuit against the college, former administrators and trustees, claiming they were victims of misrepresentation, fraud and invasion of privacy. Mt. Ida College students were forced to find another institution to attend after the school closed in May as a result of merger discussions with Lasell College. […]November 27, 2018Previous PagePage 40 of 58Next Page
