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Pennsylvania State System of Higher Ed has $14M Surplus

The 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 […]

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Program Looks to Improve College Student Completion Rates in Florida

Take 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 […]

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Swastikas Painted on Wall Outside of Professor’s Office Triggers Investigation

Dr. 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 […]

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Data Shows Pay Gap Still Exist for British Women With Degrees

A 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 […]

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Report Shows Continued Discrimination for Women, People of Color in U.S. Businesses

A 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 […]

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Michigan State University Police Department Appoints First Female Chief

Deputy 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, […]

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Mt. Ida College Sued by Three Former Students

Three 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. […]

University of Maryland Faced with Adenovirus Outbreak

One week after a freshman at the University of Maryland died from complications related to the adenovirus, the university reported the disease has affected three more students. Eighteen-year-old Olivia Paregol died on Nov. 18 at Johns Hopkins Hospital after being in and out of the hospital after developing a cough and then pneumonia earlier in […]

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Small-Scale Model of Booker T. Washington Monument to be Restored

After Tuskegee University (TU)’s most well-known campus landmark, the Booker T. Washington Monument was renovated in April, the small-scale model of the sculpture is now being remodeled. Since the monument was placed on the campus in 1922, the statue had gathered tons of layers of grime, tree sap and other impurities, according to a Tuskegee release. […]

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Chick-fil-A No Longer an Option at Rider University

After polling its student body about what restaurant they wanted on campus, Rider University, a private institution located in central New Jersey, removed Chick-fil-A as an option based on the restaurant being “widely perceived to be in opposition to the LGBTQ+ community.” Rider administrators sent a letter to the campus community stating that they intended […]

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FSU President Responds to Racist Facebook Image Targeting Willie Taggart

Following Florida State University (FSU)’s loss against University of Florida, 14-41, on Saturday, a Facebook user posted a racist image targeted at head football coach Willie Taggart. The photograph shows a man hanging from a noose with coach Taggart’s face photoshopped over the victim’s head with the caption, “#JustDoIt” and “#FireTaggart” according to WCTV News. […]

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Brown University to Evaluate new Proposed Revisions to Title IX Regulations

In the wake of the release of the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed revisions to Title IX regulations, Brown University has announced that it will assess the proposal and provide feedback to the Department on the revisions. The Department of Education’s proposed changes would alter how higher education institutions and public schools investigate sexual misconduct […]

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