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Strategic Partnerships Opening Doors to Study Abroad for Disadvantaged
In order to increase and diversify the number of American students who study abroad, K-12 educators, nonprofits and universities must pursue strategic partnerships to reach students from diverse backgrounds while they are still in high school.
October 24, 2016
Campus Climate
Guillermo: Harvard Continues to Nickel and Dime Striking Food Workers
Running a college or university isn’t always about the book learning.
October 24, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Stakeholders Cite Leadership Instability, Finances as HBCUs’ Greatest Challenges
Historically Black colleges and universities leaders reflected on the past and future of the HBCU community at the annual HBCU Week conference, held in Arlington, Va.
October 24, 2016
Opinion
How Did the Republicans Lose Their Hope and Their Party?
The political posturing and back and forth will come to a screeching halt on Tuesday, November 8.
October 24, 2016
Campus Climate
Harvard Students Lead Sit-in to Back Striking Dining Workers
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. ― Students at Harvard University are staging a campus sit-in to support the school’s striking cafeteria workers. Dozens of students walked out of classes on Monday and marched to a nearby building where Harvard officials and a labor union for campus dining workers have been in negotiations. The students said they refuse to […]
October 24, 2016
Students
‘Jackie’ Says She Felt Pressure to be in Rolling Stone Story
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. ― The woman whose harrowing account of being raped at the University of Virginia was the centerpiece of a now-discredited Rolling Stone magazine article said that she felt pressured to participate in the story and became scared in the weeks leading up its publication when she realized it may be too late to […]
October 24, 2016
News Roundup
University of Wisconsin System’s Backlog of Repairs Hits $2B
MILWAUKEE ― The backlog of needed repairs in the University of Wisconsin System has grown to an estimated cost of $2 billion. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports the system is asking for $713.3 million in the next two-year state budget, and also asking the state to give the Board of Regents authority to manage projects […]
October 24, 2016
Students
Classes Resume at 14 Pennsylvania-owned Universities
HARRISBURG, Pa. ― Classes have resumed for more than 100,000 students who attend Pennsylvania’s 14 state-owned universities. Classes resumed Monday after the union representing more than 5,000 faculty members and coaches reached a tentative contract agreement Friday with the State System of Higher Education. The new contract provides raises for all employees but also requires […]
October 24, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
WHY IT MATTERS: Veterans
WASHINGTON—THE ISSUE: There are an estimated 21.6 million veterans in the United States. Among them, nearly 9 million are enrolled in health care provided by the Department of Veterans Affairs. About 4.3 million veterans get disability compensation from the VA and nearly 900,000 have been diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder. A 2014 law signed by […]
October 24, 2016
Nursing
UM Creates Nursing School at Flint Campus
FLINT — The University of Michigan is creating a School of Nursing at its Flint campus, effective Nov. 1. The Flint campus has a department of nursing in the School of Health Professions and Studies. Nursing now will stand on its own. The university says more than 19 percent of students in Flint study nursing […]
October 24, 2016
Policies
Feds Look Into Claim of Secret VA Wait Lists
DENVER — Government investigators said they are looking into allegations that Department of Veterans Affairs employees in Colorado kept unofficial lists of veterans waiting for health care that could conceal how long it takes to get an appointment, possibly broadening a nationwide scandal. The VA’s internal watchdog announced an audit in a letter October 19 […]
October 24, 2016
Other News
Grant Aims to Increase Trust Native Americans in Care
RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Juliet McMullin, an associate professor of clinical sciences in the School of Medicine at the University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of $250,000 from the Patient Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to lay the groundwork for providers and Native American patients in the Riverside-San Bernardino, Calif., area to address patient […]
October 24, 2016
Disparities
IHS Nearly Doubles Grants for Meth and Suicide Prevention
The Indian Health Service has almost doubled the number of grants for meth and suicide prevention among youth in American Indian communities with the announcement of 42 new awards to support President Obama’s Generation Indigenous Initiative. The 2016 Methamphetamine and Suicide Prevention Initiative (MSPI) funding, worth more than $7 million, will go to tribes, tribal […]
October 24, 2016
Policies
Pitt Leads $90M Effort to Improve Trauma Care
PITTSBURGH —The University of Pittsburgh is set to lead a nationwide effort to improve treatment of trauma injuries that will be funded by the U.S. Department of Defense. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that the university’s Schools of the Health Sciences will lead the $90 million effort under a defense contract. The first step will be […]
October 24, 2016
Disparities
Paramedics in Short Supply in Arkansas
BENTONVILLE, Ark.— A mock-up of an ambulance filled one corner of the classroom and simulated hospital rooms took up the opposite wall, but Grant Wilson’s students one recent morning were focused on the 3-inch-thick books in front of them simply labeled “Paramedic Textbook.” That day’s chapter was on toxicology, dealing with every variety of poison […]
October 24, 2016
Disparities
Herschel Walker: Ask for Help
GROTON, Conn.— There’s Herschel Walker the former professional football player. The Heisman trophy winner. The bobsledder. The mixed martial artist. The founder of one of the largest minority-owned chicken companies in the U.S. The board member of a publicly traded company. “This is coming from a guy who went out and got help,” Walker, 54, […]
October 24, 2016
Students
LSU Establishes Legacy Scholarship Program
BATON ROUGE, La. ― As part of an effort to reconnect the LSU family, the LSU Board of Supervisors has approved the Louisiana Tiger Legacy Scholarship Program, which will begin with the summer/fall 2017 incoming class. The academic, merit-based scholarship will be awarded to incoming, full-time, Louisiana resident freshman or transfer students whose parent either […]
October 23, 2016
Students
Delta State to Renovate Space-age Cafeteria for $9.2M
JACKSON, Miss. ― Delta State University will renovate its space-age cafeteria, meaning students will spend the 2017-2018 year eating meals in a temporary location. The College Board Thursday approved a $9.2 million renovation for the futurist Young-Mauldin Cafeteria, whose dome and angled windows look as if a flying saucer landed on the Cleveland campus. Work […]
October 23, 2016
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