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Latinos Sue California Over Healthcare Gaps

California is harming medical care for more than 13 million lower-income residents, more than half of them Latinos, by failing to pay doctors enough to provide proper care, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday. The lawsuit alleges the state violates Latinos’ civil rights because poorly paid health care providers balk at providing treatment. Read More

July 24, 2017

Research: Blood Tests Could Predict Alzheimer’s

Researchers from Missouri reveal that blood test screening may identify markers of Alzheimer’s disease before individuals begin to experience memory loss and confusion. This finding is a significant step toward predicting disease risk. Read More

July 24, 2017

Bill Would Expand Care for Veterans

Republican Georgia Sen. Johnny Isakson has proposed legislation to increase access to privatized medical coverage for American veterans paid for by the federal government. Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, who chairs the committee, looks to accomplish this by way of expanding the existing Veterans Choice Program. Read More

July 24, 2017

CDC: 100 Million Have Diabetes or Prediabetes

More than 100 million U.S. adults are now living with diabetes or prediabetes, according to a new report released today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The report finds that as of 2015, 30.3 million Americans – 9.4 percent of the U.S. population –have diabetes. Another 84.1 million have prediabetes, a condition […]

July 24, 2017

Textbook Teaches Native American Healing Concepts

Laughter can combat trauma. Spiritual cleansings could be used to fight an opioid addiction. Cactus extract may battle diabetes and obesity. These insights are from curanderismo — traditional Native American healing from the American Southwest and Latin America. Read More

July 24, 2017

Trump Thinks Health Insurance Costs Young $12 a Year

President Donald Trump has an…interesting conception of how health insurance works. In a new interview with the New York Times, Trump defended his knowledge of health care and the Senate’s chaotic attempts to pass a Republican health care bill to repeal (and, perhaps, replace) Obamacare. (On that front, the situation has been changing almost hourly […]

July 24, 2017

Republicans Press Forward on Repeal Efforts

Republican Party leaders are trying furiously to find 50 votes for some kind of legislation that would, one way or another, repeal the Affordable Care Act. The big focus of their efforts are a handful of relatively moderate senators from states where Obamacare has had a particularly strong impact on coverage. And although the campaign […]

July 24, 2017

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STEM LEADERS

Academicians advance the work of STEM both in and outside of the classroom

July 24, 2017

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Technology Companies Team Up To Eliminate ‘Summer Melt’

Two innovative technology-based education companies are tackling what education researchers coin “summer melt,” a phenomenon of college-intending students failing to enroll at any institution the fall following their high school graduation. Signal Vine, a text messaging platform, and Study.com have created and shared innovative ways to help vulnerable students potentially at risk of “summer melt” […]

July 23, 2017

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New York Gets 75,000 Applications for Free Tuition Program

BUFFALO, N.Y. — About 75,000 people who applied for New York’s first-in-the-nation tuition-free college program are finding out whether they will start the fall semester without a tuition bill to pay. “It feels absolutely terrific,” Binghamton University student Natan Nassir, of Great Neck, said after learning Thursday that the state will pick up his tab […]

July 23, 2017

Study Examines Enrollment and Completion Rates at Minority Serving Institutions

A first-of-its kind report on enrollment and completion outcomes for students of color at minority serving institutions (MSIs) reveals a number of disparities between what is actually taking place and what is being reported in graduation rates by the federal government. The Center for Policy Research and Strategy (CPRS) at the American Council on Education […]

July 23, 2017

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Ohio Colleges to Make Emergency Grants Available to Students

A Wisconsin-based nonprofit is funding a two-year program that would make emergency grants available to some low-income students at 11 Ohio colleges and universities. The Columbus Dispatch reports the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation & Affiliates is the program’s primary funding source. An Ohio State University Office of Student Life spokesman says grants of as […]

July 23, 2017

Mizzou’s Policy May Disadvantage Low-Income Students

In an effort to curb student debt, the University of Missouri (Mizzou) has taken a controversial step: placing limits on what students can charge on their university accounts. Earlier this month, the university announced a new policy that will bar students from using a financing option known as “student charge” to make non-academic purchases. The […]

July 23, 2017

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Don’t Put It Off

Now for some, the picture I just painted may look like a lazy, disgruntled college student finally starting his homework during the 11th hour, but I assure you, nothing could be further from the truth. Before uploading my literature homework at 11:58 p.m., one minute before the deadline, I had spent the previous three hours […]

July 21, 2017

‘Yellow Ribbon’ Program Provides Free Tuition

A program offered through Tusculum College in Greeneville makes it possible for Veterans in our area to go to college for free. The following is release from Tusculum College: Veterans of all branches of the U.S. military who qualify for full entitlement of the Post 9/11 GI Bill can get their bachelor’s or master’s degree […]

July 21, 2017

Heavy Construction Academy Offers Hands-On Training

Playing in the sandbox with big rigs is key to the curriculum at Heavy Construction Academy. On any given day, 30 students — many of them veterans looking for a new career after the military — can be found riding around in excavators, front-end loaders, skid steers, motor graders, backhoes, rollers, bulldozers and articulated dump […]

July 21, 2017

Lifetime Learning — New Model for Higher Ed

The future of higher education will likely be crafted by both incremental changes and a drastic rethinking of the institutional model, according to the predictions of Jeff Selingo, Washington Post columnist and author of three books, most recently, There Is Life After College. “We have to think of new models to serve lifelong learners,” said […]

July 21, 2017

What Pell Cuts Would Mean

In March, we showed what it would mean for students if the House Republicans acted on their proposal to eliminate all mandatory Pell Grant funding. Republicans on the House Budget Committee are expected to include this extreme cut in their FY18 Budget this week. In response, we’ve updated our analyses with the latest data from […]

July 21, 2017

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