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College Named for John Glenn Honors Widow’s 98th Birthday

COLUMBUS, Oh. — Admirers of Annie Glenn watched a videotaped 98th birthday tribute to her online and leave the widow of astronaut John Glenn well wishes. A spokesman for the John Glenn College of Public Affairs at Ohio State University says faculty and staff taped the greeting Friday at a private birthday celebration in her […]

February 18, 2018

Support for Service Members

Can we get a shout-out for Senate Bill 1557, the bill that would make academic accommodation for Oregon military members called up for active duty? This exhortation is necessary because the bill has bipartisan sponsors and enjoys widespread bipartisan support. More importantly, it is a no-nonsense modification bill that will help Oregonians in the military […]

February 16, 2018

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VA Secretary Reimburses U.S. for Wife’s Travel

WASHINGTON — Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin said he regrets mistakes he and others made during travel planning and ethics clearance processes that led to findings by the VA inspector general that he had misused taxpayer resources during a European trip last year. The inspector general found Shulkin improperly accepted Wimbledon tickets and taxpayer-funded airfare […]

February 16, 2018

MOOCS Attract More Paying Customers

If anybody stays on top of the massive open online course segment, it’s Class Central, a search engine that taps into every MOOC platform. Recently, it issued its annual review of MOOC stats and trends, and the information exposes how this form of online learning is evolving from a technology expected to disrupt higher education […]

February 16, 2018

Program Matches ROTC Students, Veterans for Mentoring

TMichael Farnum, director of military outreach at Pacific Lutheran University, is playing matchmaker. “It’s sort of like a dating site,” Farnum said. But Farnum is not talking about the next OKCupid or Match.com. Instead, he’s connecting students through SaLUTE, a new two-way mentorship program he launched that pairs ROTC cadets with military veterans. “I collect […]

February 16, 2018

Hire-a-Vet Provides Jobs for 300

Employers participating in 2017’s Maine Hire-A-Vet Campaign hired 296 veterans and military family members during its 100-day initiative, the Maine Department of Labor said Feb. 8. One-hundred-and-fifty-four employers from all 16 Maine counties participated in the campaign, which launched Labor Day and ended Dec. 13, 2017. The MDOL collected data into January due to the […]

February 16, 2018

Weighing GI Bill vs Vocational Rehab Benefits

This is the age-old question for disabled veterans, the GI Bill vs VA Vocational Rehabilitation, where the answer tends to change every few years. Here is the answer for 2018. Veterans in our group, Disabled Veterans – Chapter 31 Voc Rehab, were pressed by Vocational Rehabilitation Counselors to use up their GI Bill prior to […]

February 16, 2018

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Program Helps Medics Become Nurses

DULUTH — Military medics now have a path to more quickly become civilian nurses in Minnesota with a program that takes advantage of their experience. Lake Superior College’s new seven-month program provides the education needed for current and veteran military medics to work as civilian licensed practical nurses in Minnesota. The Military Bridge Medic-to-LPN Program […]

February 16, 2018

Should Short-Term Programs Get Federal Aid?

Last month, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos convened a Higher Education Summit. Attendees included non-profit higher education officers and leaders of various for-profit business heads. They met in Washington, D.C. over a four hour period. One of the attendees, Kathleen Plinske of Valencia College in Central Florida, made an interesting recommendation. According to the Department of […]

February 16, 2018

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Academicians Celebrated in ‘Black Scholars Matter’ Series, part 3

This is the final in a three-part Black History Month series celebrating Black academicians and their work.

February 15, 2018

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Expected Blockbuster Film ‘Black Panther’ Poised to Challenge Racial Assumptions

His “Black Panther” fandom stretches back to Dr. Greg Carr’s boyhood, with him dashing inside a neighborhood store to snag the latest edition of that barrier-busting Marvel comics series about a caped, cat-masked superhero hailing from a fictionalized, self-determining African nation.

February 15, 2018

Chelsea Manning to Speak on Tech at University

ANN ARBOR, Mi. – Chelsea Manning, an advocate of queer and transgender rights and government transparency who spent seven years in military prison for leaking classified documents, will speak at the University of Michigan as part of the Penny Stamps Speaker Series. Manning will speak at 5:10 p.m. on March 15 at the Michigan Theater, […]

February 15, 2018

School Coughs Up $7.1M for Overbilling State

TOPEKA, Ka. — The University of Kansas has reimbursed the state for more than $7.1 million after auditors concluded last year that the school’s social welfare school overbilled the state’s Medicaid program for services. Chancellor Douglas Girod formally notified Gov. Jeff Colyer and other state officials of the reimbursement this week in a letter that […]

February 15, 2018

Leading Historian and Author Lerone Bennett, Jr. Dies At 89

Lerone Bennett, Jr., a leading Black historian and journalist, died this week at age 89. He had vascular dementia.

February 15, 2018

2 College Officials at Florida School During Shooting

DUDLEY, Mass. — Two officials from a Massachusetts college were at a Florida high school when a gunman opened fire and killed 17 people. Nichols College said on its Facebook page that dean of admissions Paul Brower and assistant football coach St. Clair Ryan were visiting Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland on a […]

February 15, 2018

Obscure Report Documents Racial Health Inequalities

In my previous post, I shared the story of my discovery of the now-defunct National Negro Health Week (NNHW) and Booker T. Washington’s role in establishing it. I would paraphrase their major message as, “If health is the doorway to the future of the race, education is the key.”

February 15, 2018

Fix TAP

When I was in high school, I had a GPA of 1.6 and barely graduated. Nonetheless, my mother always believed that I would be the first person in our family to receive my college degree. In 2010, she passed away in a head-on collision car accident, and I became a ward of the state at […]

February 15, 2018

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Council Seeks Resignation of Teacher Over Anti-Military Rant

PICO RIVERA, Calif. — City Council members in a Los Angeles suburb passed a resolution February 13 condemning and asking for the resignation of one of their colleagues who in his work as a school teacher called members of the U.S. military “the lowest of our low.” “God bless America!” one Pico Rivera councilman shouted […]

February 15, 2018