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News Roundup
KU Provost Leaving for University of Louisville
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The University of Louisville has hired the University of Kansas’ provost as its new president.U of L trustees voted during a special meeting Tuesday to hire Dr. Neeli Bendapudi, completing a nationwide search for the next leader of the scandal-plagued university. The university has been searching for a full-time president since James Ramsey […]
April 3, 2018
News Roundup
No Men Allowed: UVM Hosts Women-Only Debate Championship
The first rule of a North American debate tournament to be held in Vermont this weekend: No men allowed. Some 150 debaters from 18 schools across the U.S. and Canada will compete in the special tournament, which is designed to be a safe space for women who complain of bias when they debate against men. […]
April 3, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
A No-Brainer
This week I read a rather heartbreaking article in the Guardian entitled “They called my university a Ph.D. factory – now I understand why.” (The author is, I believe, a woman with a doctorate in literature, but since she goes by “Anonymous Academic,” this is not certain.) “When I was considering whether to study for […]
April 3, 2018
Academics
Coast Guard Schedules Public Drill Reviews
NEW LONDON, Conn. — The Coast Guard Academy has announced the dates of six regimental reviews that are open to the public. Bleachers with a view of the parade field in New London are available for viewing of the drills performed by the Corps of Cadets. The academy says the marches recognize military heritage and […]
April 3, 2018
Veterans
University Outreach Addresses Challenges
The University has launched a new outreach program to address the unique challenges student veterans face. Jason Sakowski, veteran services coordinator, and Nick Osborne, director of the Center for Wounded Veterans, reached out to all the community colleges in the state to recruit veteran transfer students. “99 percent of our (veteran) students are actually transfer […]
April 3, 2018
Academics
S.D. Will Give Active Military Tuition Discount
Active duty service members enrolled in distance courses offered by all six public universities in South Dakota will soon qualify for a reduced tuition rate. As approved this week by the South Dakota Board of Regents, the new rate effective beginning in the summer 2018 term. The new tuition rate is $250 per credit hour, […]
April 3, 2018
Veterans
Connecticut Veteran Wins Upgrade to Discharge Status
Connecticut veterans’ leader and decorated soldier Stephen Kennedy has won his eight-year battle to have his Army discharge status upgraded to honorable. Kennedy, of Fairfield, president of the Connecticut branch of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA-CT), will continue his federal class action lawsuit on behalf of Army veterans nationwide who received less than […]
April 3, 2018
Veterans
Ousted VA Chief Says Appointees Did Him In
David Shulkin, removed days ago as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said political appointees engineered his ouster as they push for “more aggressive” changes to how the sprawling department is run. “I did not resign,” Shulkin said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” In a separate interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said […]
April 3, 2018
Other News
Senators Slam For-Profit Bridgepoint
In 2011, now-retired United States Senator Tom Harkin called San Diego’s controversial for-profit Bridgepoint Education “an absolute scam.” This month, two senators have whacked the company’s major operation, Ashford University,  with similar — but more polite — biting criticism, to wit: Ashford is guilty of “predatory practices,” the senators said in a March 15 letter […]
April 3, 2018
Other News
Council That Oversaw For-Profits Wants a Comeback
The organization at the center of one of the largest fraud scandals in the history of for-profit colleges is planning a comeback. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was stripped of its powers in December 2016 amid the collapse of two for-profit university chains, where tens of thousands of students were encouraged to […]
April 3, 2018
Home
Journalism Program Explores Black Students’ Experiences
The Nation recently launched a student journalism program that provides training and mentoring opportunities for Black student journalists while giving them a platform to document the lived experiences of Black students on campus.
April 2, 2018
Students
NUL: Higher Ed Act Renewal Must Address Barriers to Underserved Students
As Congress prepares for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the National Urban League says issues of access, affordability, completion and accountability for underrepresented students should be addressed.
April 2, 2018
Opinion
Public Outreach in an Anti-Knowledge Moment
We live in a time in which knowledge has been devalued. Ahistoricism is a central tenet of the current administration, and research-based evidence in both the social and natural sciences is regularly disregarded.
April 2, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
Asian-American Scholars Honor SFSU’s Pioneering Ethnic Studies
The Association of Asian American Studies celebrated a major diversity milestone at its national conference, 50 years after a student strike at San Francisco State University birthed ethnic studies as a model for the nation.
April 2, 2018
Home
Saluting the 2018 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars
Remembering Arthur Ashe Jr. on the 25th anniversary of his death.
April 2, 2018
News Roundup
Indiana University Team Recording Shipwreck Sites
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – An Indiana University team is working to preserve and document shipwreck sites in the Florida Keys. The group from the university’s Center for Underwater Science will visit the site of a Spanish treasure fleet shipwreck from the 1700s this summer. The school has an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, […]
April 2, 2018
News Roundup
Anti-Apartheid Activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Dies at 81
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist in her own right whose reputation was sullied by scandal, has died. She was 81. The woman many South Africans have described as the “Mother of the Nation” and a champion of the black majority died “surrounded by her family and loved ones,” according to […]
April 2, 2018
News Roundup
Couple Donates Inuit Art, Money to University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Two longtime University of Michigan donors have given their collection of Inuit art and $2 million to the school to create a program to support related exhibitions, education and outreach. The Ann Arbor university announced that Philip and Kathy Power have donated the collection of roughly 200 Inuit stone sculptures and prints […]
April 2, 2018
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