Monica Levitan (EDU)News RoundupDepartment of Education Launches New App Making it “Easier” to Fill out FAFSAU.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos and Senate Education Committee chairman Lamar Alexander R-Tenn showed Sevier County High School students and local guidance counselors how to use the new myStudentAid mobile app. “Filling out the [Free Application for Federal Student Aid] FAFSA is now easier than ever before,” DeVos said. “For the first time, students […]November 14, 2018News RoundupAMA Adopts new Policy Geared Towards Preventing Physician and Medical Student SuicideThe American Medical Association (AMA) has adopted a new policy geared towards identifying patterns that could predict and eventually prevent suicide among physicians-in-training. AMA will utilize the new policy with assistance from the Liaison Committee on Medical Education and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education to collect data regarding medical student, resident and fellow […]November 14, 2018News RoundupNortheastern University to Purchase Small, Private College in LondonNortheastern University, located in Boston, has purchased a small, private college in central London called The New College of the Humanities to continue its yearlong international expansion. The New College of the Humanities is a six-year-old institution that currently enrolls 200 students. “This new partnership will open up a broad range of learning and research […]November 13, 2018News RoundupUWSP Announces Elimination of Six Majors, Plan to Restructure CollegesThe University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (UWSP) chancellor Dr. Bernie Patterson has announced it will make several adjustments to its degree programs after experiencing budget deficits and low student enrollment. In the announcement, Patterson said that the new plan will “produce graduates who are among the best prepared professionals in Wisconsin.” The new changes include the elimination […]November 13, 2018News RoundupLock Haven University to Have Pet-Friendly Residence HallBeginning in spring 2019, college students at Lock Haven University (LHU) will have the ability to bring a pet dog, cat or some small caged animals to live with them in a pet-friendly residence hall on campus. The pet-friendly dormitory will be LHU’s North Hall and is the first of its kind in the Pennsylvania state […]November 13, 2018African-AmericanOSU President Drake Begins Job as Chair of APLU Board of TrusteesDr. Michael Drake, president of The Ohio State University (OSU) began his first day on Monday as chair of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) Board of Directors. Drake became president of OSU in June 2014 and has since voiced the importance of the institution’s land-grant mission while at the same time instituting […]November 13, 2018News RoundupTheodore V. Wells Jr. Awarded Honorary Degree from College of the Holy CrossThe College of the Holy Cross has awarded an honorary degree to well-known litigation attorney and alumnus Theodore V. Wells Jr. at the beginning of a three-day commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Black Student Union at Holy Cross. Wells was one of the college’s first Black students when he started in 1968 and […]November 12, 2018HBCUsDr. George Ayers, Devoted Higher Ed Professional, Passes Away at 79Dr. George Edward Louis Ayers, president of Ayers & Associates, Inc. and devoted higher education professional, passed away on Thursday, Nov. 1 in Palm Beach Gardens, Fl. He was 79. Founded in 1989, Ayers & Associates, Inc. is an executive search and strategic consulting firm that offers services to higher education institutions and related organizations, […]November 12, 2018MilitaryMcDaniel College Announces New Military Legacy ScholarshipOn Veteran’s Day, McDaniel College announced a new Military Legacy Scholarship valued at up to $100,000 for over four years for all military veterans, active-duty members and their children applying as first-year and transfer students for fall 2019. The scholarship will offer $25,000 annually, or $20,000 a year to commuter students and is renewable each […]November 12, 2018News RoundupWayne State University Named Winner of APLU Degree AwardWayne State University (WSU) was named the winner of the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU)’s 2018 Degree Completion Award which recognizes and awards schools that utilize new approaches to advance degree completion and ensuring educational quality of its students. In 2011, WSU established a Student Retention Initiative which works to improve student success […]November 12, 2018Previous PagePage 44 of 58Next Page
