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Poll: Americans Want Bipartisan Healthcare
Now that the great Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and replace debate has seemingly ended in Congress, we’ve seen movement by members of Congress towards a bipartisan approach to healthcare reform, starting with discussions on how to improve the current law. The new Kaiser Health Tracking Poll for August from the Kaiser Family Foundation shows […]
August 16, 2017
Policies
Oregon Adopts Protections for Abortion, Reproductive Health
Oregon Gov. Kate Brown Tuesday signed what activists describe as the most far-reaching law in the land to solidify access to abortion and subsidized birth control, bucking efforts in Washington to limit reproductive health coverage. The Reproductive Health Equity Act requires insurers to cover abortions at no cost to the patient, enshrining the right to […]
August 16, 2017
Policies
CBO: If Subsidies End, Premiums and Deficit Will Soar
WASHINGTON — Premiums for the most popular health insurance plans would shoot up 20 percent next year and federal budget deficits would increase by $194 billion in the coming decade if President Donald Trump carries out his threat to end certain subsidies paid to insurance companies for the benefit of low-income people, the Congressional Budget […]
August 16, 2017
Other News
Health Disparities Can Be Skin Deep
About half of patients will have skin of color by 2050, the U.S. Census Bureau projects. Of the many ways this demographic change will affect American society, there is one medical implication that is not widely appreciated. Dermatologists and the primary care physicians who refer to them will be faced with cutaneous diseases that happen […]
August 16, 2017
Other News
States With Legal Pot Crack Down on Smuggling
PORTLAND, Ore. — Well before Oregon legalized marijuana, its verdant, wet forests made it an ideal place for growing the drug, which often ended up being funneled out of the state for big money. Now, officials suspect pot grown legally in Oregon for medicinal and recreational purposes and other states is also being smuggled out, […]
August 16, 2017
Home
It’s A Small World
For better or for worse, the change of Presidential administrations has produced many global controversies in just a few short months, forcing us to remember how small and fragile our planet is.
August 16, 2017
Leadership & Policy
UNR Student Won’t Be Expelled for Role in Charlottesville Protest
RENO, Nev. — The president of the University of Nevada, Reno says a UNR student who gained notoriety for rallying with White nationalists in Virginia will not be expelled or lose his university job. Peter Cytanovic, who also goes by the name Peter Cvjetanovic, was photographed with a group of demonstrators on Friday carrying a […]
August 16, 2017
Faculty & Staff
University of Montana Lecturers Given 6-month Layoff Notices
MISSOULA, Mont. — The University of Montana has given about 40 non-tenured lecturers notice that their contracts won’t be renewed at the end of the fall semester. Provost Beverly Edmond told the Missoulian the letters were sent to meet university policy that lecturers with more than three consecutive years of service be given one semester’s […]
August 16, 2017
Students
Troubled For-profit Law School in North Carolina Closing
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — The alumni association president of a troubled, for-profit law school in North Carolina says it’s closing immediately. Lee Robertson Jr. says Charlotte School of Law employees were notified Monday. By Tuesday afternoon, the 11-year-old school’s website had been taken down. Local media report the University of North Carolina Board of Governors voted […]
August 16, 2017
Opinion
Charlottesville Evokes Memories of the Sixties
I am a product of the 1960s and grew up in a Southern city. Segregation, separate but equal, we sat upstairs and they sat downstairs at the movies all happened during my early years. However, it didn’t stop us from believing and achieving.
August 16, 2017
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Ancestry Research Proves Stumbling Block for White Nationalists
If you want to get underneath the skin of White nationalists, check out how they react when genetic ancestry tests reveal the “bad news” that they are not 100 percent European.
August 16, 2017
Students
Georgetown to Add GRE Scores to Law School Application Process
Following in the footsteps of Harvard Law School and the University of Arizona, Georgetown Law School has made the decision to no longer allow the Law School Admissions Test (LSAT) to be the only factor in determining a potential student’s acceptance.
August 16, 2017
Students
Faculty Chemistry Pays Off at Georgia Gwinnett College
Can you imagine a new state college having a junior faculty member chairing an open rank chemistry search committee?
August 16, 2017
Students
Those Fighting to Save DACA Still Seeking Answers
Now, just a couple of months past the five-year anniversary of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, supporters of DACA wonder if they can convince President Trump to keep the program amid calls for him to end it.
August 16, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Transgender Ban — A Veteran’s Perspective
On Wednesday July 26, 2017 at 8:55 a.m., President Trump sent shock waves across the nation when he tweeted, “The United States government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the […]
August 15, 2017
Other News
Transcript: The DeVos/AP Interview
A transcript of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ interview with The Associated Press, conducted last Wednesday in her office: AP: President Trump has talked a lot about undoing some of the Obama legacy. When it comes to education can you talk to us about the areas where you think you’ve been successful in this regard? What […]
August 15, 2017
Academics
Change Methods to Engage Online Learners
Teaching online is a unique experience for faculty and students. Although I love the online environment for some courses, it does present its own challenges. One of those challenges is how to engage online students in activities that push them to go beyond simply reading, interpreting, and interacting. After all, the idea (in most cases) […]
August 15, 2017
Veterans
Federal Program Opens Path to Technology Industry
Plunging his hand into an opened computer chassis, Vichon Ward sorted through a mess of colorful cables, fans and motherboards. The 28-year-old served eight years as a mechanic in the Air Force, repairing massive jet engines at military bases around the world — but before starting a tech training course here last month, he had […]
August 15, 2017
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