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Academics
Programs Help Airmen Prepare for Careers
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) — The Air Force has begun participating in career skills programs which afford eligible Airmen the opportunity to prepare for a post-Air Force career up to six months before separation or retirement. Apprenticeships, on-the-job training, employment skills training and internships are all career skills programs that offer skills training […]
July 6, 2017
Academics
Getting Students Talking? Teach It Online
I feel especially close to the 20 undergraduate students who just completed my five-week summer session marketing class. This close bond wasn’t a result of the usual experiences that bring students and their instructors together, like individual office meetings or vibrant classroom discussions. The closeness was created digitally, because this was a class delivered entirely […]
July 6, 2017
Academics
Military Service: One of Best Decisions Ever
URBANA — Lt. Nicholas Osborne served an 11-month deployment during Operation Iraqi Freedom before becoming director of the Chez Center for Wounded Veterans in Higher Education. Part of the first job was checking for IEDs in vehicles that were shipped out. Education was always part of the plan. But just as many World War II […]
July 6, 2017
Academics
Website Helps Military, Veterans Assess College Costs
The Veterans Affairs (VA) website has a good tool for determining school costs at most colleges and universities. The website is called the GI Bill Comparison Tool at www.vets.gov/gi-bill-comparison-tool. The site is available for everyone to use. It provides an annual cost for tuition, gives a benchmark of living costs and for veterans it provides […]
July 6, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Shaw President Leaving for VP Role at Howard University
Dr. Tashni-Ann Dubroy, who is currently the president of Shaw University, has resigned from her post to become the executive vice president and chief operating officer at Howard University.
July 5, 2017
Students
Ohio Empowers Community Colleges to Address Industry Needs
Ohio has become the 24th state to allow its community colleges to offer four-year degrees.
July 5, 2017
Students
Connections Keep Western Michigan’s Dunn Energized
An open and honest connection with students, faculty, administration and staff marked Dr. John M. Dunn’s tenure as president of Western Michigan University. And although he is retiring, that connection, he says, will not be broken.
July 5, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Bennett College Names Dawkins 18th President
Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, who has served as interim president Bennett College since August 2016, was named as the historically Black school’s 18th president on Wednesday. Dawkins had taken the reins of the women’s college in Greensboro, North Carolina when Rosalind Fuse-Hall resigned. According to a statement released by Bennett, Dawkins primary goals are increasing enrollment […]
July 5, 2017
Students
U of Illinois to Host Conference on College Student Hunger
URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois will hold a conference focusing on the problem of hunger in college students. Agricultural engineering professor Prasanta Kalita organized the effort to bring the Presidents United to Solve Hunger conference to the Urbana-Champaign campus in March of next year. Kalita said the conference is expected to draw up […]
July 5, 2017
International
U.S. Denies Visas to Gambia Teens in Global Robotics Contest
DAKAR, Senegal — The United States has denied visas to five teenage students from Gambia competing in a prestigious international robotics contest in Washington, the team’s leader said Tuesday. The teens found the rejection “very disheartening,” said Mucktarr M.Y. Darboe, who is also a director in the largely Muslim West African nation’s ministry of higher […]
July 5, 2017
Students
U. of New Hampshire Institute on Disabilities Gets $2.7M Grant
DURHAM, N.H. — The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant to support the independence, productivity and quality of individuals with disabilities. The funding for the university’s Institute on Disability comes from the federal Administration for Community Living. It will be used for research, for training future health and human […]
July 5, 2017
Asian American Pacific Islander
Ivy League Historian Returns Prize After Citations Questions
NEW YORK — A Columbia University professor who specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history has returned a 2014 prize he received from the American Historical Association after some sources in the winning book were questioned. Charles K. Armstrong, author of “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992,” won the association’s […]
July 5, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
AHCA Disaster for Rural America
Much has been made of the distress and discontent in rural areas during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Few realise, however, this is also felt through unequal health. Researchers call it the “rural mortality penalty.” While rates of mortality have steadily fallen in the nation’s urban areas, they have actually climbed for rural Americans. And […]
July 5, 2017
Disparities
Partners Work on Quality of Care
The National Minority Quality Forum (NMQF) and the American College of Physicians (ACP) today announce that the CMS-approved ACP Genesis Qualified Clinical Data Registry (QCDR) now includes a performance measure for the treatment of heart failure in African Americans beginning with the 2017 Reporting Period for CMS’ new Merit-based Incentive Payment System (MIPS). ACP’s Genesis […]
July 5, 2017
Policies
Young Adult Health Coverage Varies by Race
Health insurance coverage increased significantly for young adults after the 2010 passage of the Affordable Care Act, but there were large differences among racial and ethnic groups, particularly among blacks, an analysis by Oregon State researchers found. The researchers found health insurance rates increased 6.1 percent for young adults age 19 to 25 after the […]
July 5, 2017
Disparities
Improved Medical Records Reduce Disparities
A streamlined and integrated method of tracking medical records called a laboratory health information exchange narrowed the gap in anti-retroviral therapy and viral suppression between HIV-positive blacks and whites, according to UCLA researchers. Also, the use of these exchanges led to Latinos who are HIV-positive being more likely than whites of using anti-retroviral therapy and […]
July 5, 2017
Policies
Advocates Say Bill Would Hurt Rape Victims
Victims of rape and domestic abuse would suffer “devastating” effects if either the House or Senate proposals to revamp health care are passed, a large coalition of advocacy groups said as they demanded that lawmakers tear up their drafts and craft a better bill. More than 300 national and local nonprofits signed a letter sent […]
July 5, 2017
Policies
Bill Would Strip Special Education Funds
School superintendents across the country are raising alarms about the possibility that Republican health-care legislation would curtail billions of dollars in annual funding they count on to help students with disabilities and poor children. For the past three decades, Medicaid has helped pay for services and equipment that schools provide to special-education students, as well […]
July 5, 2017
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