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Policies
Tribes Want Exemption from Expense of Health Care
CHEYENNE, Wyo. — Representatives of several Indian tribes say they support legislation introduced by congressional Republicans that would exempt tribes nationwide from being classified as large employers under the federal Affordable Care Act — a designation that requires tribes to pay higher insurance costs or face federal penalties. Supporters say requiring tribes to provide group […]
July 23, 2015
Policies
Enrollment for Medi-Cal Expansion Is Triple Expected Level
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California has enrolled 2.3 million people under an optional expansion of the state’s Medicaid program — nearly three times more than the state had anticipated, according to the state Department of Finance. Beyond that, a record number of people who already qualified for the low-income health program signed up, pushing overall enrollment […]
July 23, 2015
Disparities
Harlem Welcomes CCNY’s New Medical School
The City University of New York announced that community leaders have hailed the establishment of the first public medical school in Harlem by the college in partnership with St. Barnabas Hospital. The CUNY School of Medicine at City College will accept its first intake in fall 2016. Operating on the City College campus in Harlem […]
July 23, 2015
African-American
Congress Pondering How to Catch Up With Education
As Congress moves towards reauthorizing the Higher Education Act (HEA), members of a Senate committee said that they would hope to encourage innovation in higher education.
July 22, 2015
Students
Professor: Student Debt Threatening American Dream
William Elliott said stakeholders must ask whether students who go to college and get debt can “achieve similar long-term outcomes as someone who didn’t take out debt.”
July 22, 2015
HBCUs
University of California Sets New Minimum Wage
SAN FRANCISCO ― The minimum wage for University of California employees and contract workers will increase to $15 an hour by fall 2017, UC President Janet Napolitano said Wednesday in announcing a move that follows similar actions by local governments but likely represents a first for a public university.
July 22, 2015
Students
Tony Brown Going into Black Journalists’ Hall of Fame
Tony Brown, a renowned journalist and educator, has been selected for induction into the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) Hall of Fame, the organization announced Wednesday.
July 22, 2015
Students
Johns Hopkins Sued Over Purported Frat Rape
BALTIMORE — The parents of a 16-year-old who says she was sexually assaulted at an off-campus fraternity party are suing Johns Hopkins University for $20 million.
July 22, 2015
HBCUs
Nebraska Nursing Program Gets Diversity Grant
A $665,266 grant should help the University of Nebraska Medical Center attract a more diverse pool of nursing students.
July 22, 2015
Home
Who Am I?
Summer has brought with it a perfect storm of controversies over “identity.” It began with Bruce Jenner, the iconic Olympian, really coming out as the transgendered and glammed-up Caitlyn on the cover of the July Issue of Vanity Fair. It will end with people still tweeting over Rachel Dolezal, the deposed NAACP chapter president in Spokane, Washington, who grew up a blond girl, attended and sued Howard University and maintains that she identifies as “black.”
July 22, 2015
Home
Camp Girls Learn to Code from the Pros
When organizers of a summer camp that includes a number of disadvantaged high-school girls asked about career plans, none of the girls talked about computer programming.
July 22, 2015
Leadership & Policy
Cal State University Approves 2 Percent Raise for Executives
California State University presidents and other executives will receive an across-the-board 2 percent pay increase, a raise faculty union leaders brandished as part of a trend of “misplaced priorities.”
July 21, 2015
Students
Va. Faith-based School Drops Same-Sex Marriage Hiring Ban
Eastern Mennonite University says it will no longer discriminate against job prospects who are in same-sex marriages.
July 21, 2015
African-American
Young Men and the Epidemic of Anger, Violence
It is truly an alarming and disturbing state of affairs.
July 21, 2015
Women
Professor Rides ‘Word Clouds’ to Poetic Prominence
Elizabeth Alexander has blossomed into an essayist, poet and playwright whose prose has taken her from prestigious university lecture halls to perhaps the grandest of stages.
July 21, 2015
Students
Black Students Outpacing Other Groups for Loans
Students of all races and ethnicities are taking out loans, but a larger percentage of Black undergraduates took out students loans than any other demographic group in 2011-12.
July 21, 2015
Home
Race Out, Creativity In for Achieving Diversity Goals
A panel of current and former institutional leaders advised becoming more strategic about how to achieve racial and economic diversity on campus.
July 21, 2015
African-American
Jobs Elusive for Puerto Ricans Flocking to Central Florida
MIAMI — Mayra Rios didn’t want to leave her native Puerto Rico, but the constant bullying that her autistic son faced at school and the lack of services available to him were the last blows. “Over there, it’s almost impossible to live,” she said in Spanish at her modest two-bedroom Orlando apartment. “There’s a blow […]
July 21, 2015
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