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American Indian College Fund Full Circle Scholarship Now Open

The American Indian College Fund’s signature scholarship program, The Full Circle Scholarship, which supports Native American college students, is now accepting applications for 2019-2020 recipients. The American Indian College Fund donates millions of dollars to thousands of Native American students pursuing degrees in higher education each year. One percent of college students around the country […]

BNY Mellon Donates $1M Grant to CUNY to Support Low-Income Students

The City University of New York (CUNY) has recently received a $1 million grant from the BNY Mellon Foundation to support academically driven, low-income students and increase graduation rates. The BNY Mellon three-year grant, named the BNY Mellon Foundation Transfer Scholarship, will support 330 juniors and seniors at a CUNY senior college who are on […]

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Green Mountain College Announces Closure, Partnership to Help Students Complete Degree Programs

Green Mountain College (GMC) Board of Trustees have announced that the 185-year-old institution will close its doors at the end of the spring 2019 semester. GMC officials said the college has created a teach-out partnership with Prescott College to help GMC students complete their degrees before the school closes. Under the partnership, Prescott will admit […]

University of South Florida St. Petersburg Sends 430 Acceptance Emails By Accident

Officials at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg (USFSP) said it recently sent 430 acceptance emails to student applicants by accident. The university said the emails were delivered on Saturday, Jan. 19 and were a result of “human error”, according to a statement to ABC News. “All of us work in higher education because […]

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Temple University Health System Changes Management as Part of new Restructuring Plan

In a recent letter sent to Temple University Health System faculty, chief medical officer Susan Freeman and chief administrative officer Alan Rosenberg will be stepping down from their posts as part of the system’s restructuring. The letter, written by the system’s president and chief executive Larry Kaiser, also stated that Temple University Hospital’s CEO Verdi […]

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Michael Bloomberg: Johns Hopkins University Needs Armed Police Force

Former Mayor of New York and major donor to Johns Hopkins University Michael Bloomberg, recently said it’s “ridiculous” that the university does not have an armed police force. “When you have a city that has the murder rate that Baltimore has, I think it’s ridiculous to think that they shouldn’t be armed,” Bloomberg said. The […]

Students in Blackface Video No Longer Attend University of Oklahoma

A day after two University of Oklahoma students made a blackface video that went viral, president Jim Gallogly announced that the students will leave the campus. “This type of behavior is not welcome here and is condemned in the strongest terms by me and by our university,” Gallogly said in the announcement. “This behavior does […]

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Robot Food Delivery Service Now Available at George Mason University

George Mason University students can now have select food and drinks orders delivered to them by robots, thanks to a new partnership with European startup company Starship Technologies. Starship will bring at least 25 six-wheeled robots to the Fairfax campus. Students can use the robot delivery service for orders from Blaze Plaza, Starbucks and Dunkin’ […]

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Child Prodigy with Full-Ride to Southern University Begins First Semester of Classes

Elijah Precciely, an 11-year-old child prodigy from Baton Rouge recently began his first full semester at Southern University where he is pursuing a degree in physics. In May 2018, Southern University announced that Precciely was taking courses at the institution before he received a full-ride scholarship to attend Southern. With his completed courses from last […]

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University of Central Arkansas Receives $20M Donation for New Fine Arts Center

The University of Central Arkansas (UCA) has received a $20 million from the Windgate Foundation, the largest donation in more than a century of its existence. The donation will be used to create the new, 114,000 square foot Windgate Center for Fine and Performing Arts. The center will include an exterior space for three-dimensional art, […]

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Marshall University Food Pantry Offer Services to Federal Workers

Marshall University’s Department of Dietetics food pantry has opened its doors to federal workers struggling as a result of the government shutdown. “We are deeply committed to providing nutrition education and programming to not only our students, but to those we serve in our community as well,” said Dr. Kelli Williams, chair of the university’s […]

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Retired Lt. Col. Danielle M. Conway Appointed Dean of Penn State Dickinson Law

Retired Lt. Col. Danielle M. Conway, current dean and law professor at the University of Maine School of Law, has been appointed dean of Pennsylvania State University’s Dickinson Law, effective July 1. Prior to joining the University of Maine in 2015, Conway served on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, William S. Richardson School of […]

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