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Lopez Helps University of Phoenix Spread Its Cross-Cultural Wings
Saray E. Lopez, the assistant dean of community outreach & inclusion, is a driving force behind the University of Phoenix’s successful minority outreach efforts.
September 27, 2017
Faculty & Staff
University of Wyoming Sees High Amount of Resignations
LARAMIE, Wyo. — University of Wyoming officials say they have lost 86 faculty members throughout the past academic year, four times more than it would lose in a typical year. The Laramie Boomerang reports the university suspects many of those that resigned left over concerns related to budget cuts and the central leadership of the […]
September 27, 2017
Students
Confederate Posters Found at American University
WASHINGTON — American University says 10 confederate flag posters with cotton attached to them have been reported on the school’s Washington, D.C. campus. University President Sylvia Burwell said in a statement on Wednesday that video shows “the perpetrator(s) coming on to the campus and hanging the posters.” University police are investigating and have released an […]
September 27, 2017
Students
Several Arrested at UC Berkeley Protest Amid Tense Exchanges
BERKELEY, Calif. — Police arrested at least four people Tuesday during a small but tense rally staged by a politically conservative group at the University of California, Berkeley. Amid heavy police presence, the protest was led by Joey Gibson, leader of a group called Patriot Prayer, and supporters including Kyle Chapman, a self-described “American nationalist.” […]
September 27, 2017
STEM
2 Ohio Colleges Apply for Medical Marijuana Testing
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two colleges have applied to handle testing for Ohio’s nascent medical marijuana program. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Commerce tells The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Central State University in southwest Ohio and Hocking College in southeast Ohio both sent in applications by last Friday’s deadline. State law mandates only colleges […]
September 27, 2017
Leadership & Policy
U. of Louisville Places Rick Pitino, AD on Administrative Leave
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Rick Pitino couldn’t survive another scandal, as an angry interim University of Louisville president Wednesday placed the head men’s college basketball coach and his boss on administrative leave amid a nationwide federal bribery investigation that has rocked the sport. President Greg Postel’s decision comes after the school acknowledged on Tuesday that the […]
September 27, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Psychotherapists’ Letter: Troubling Times
Increasingly, the weight of the current political environment burdens the hearts and minds of Americans and causes anxiety, preoccupation, deepening depression, feelings of helplessness and despair, disgust and horror. Not infrequently, it even rekindles the embers of prior trauma for women and members of marginalized groups whose sense of hard-won safety has been shaken to […]
September 27, 2017
Disparities
Teen Birth Rates Highest in Poor Areas
It’s about a 15-minute drive from McLane High to Buchanan High, but the difference in teen birth rates within the schools’ respective ZIP codes is staggering – and alarming. Buchanan High, a Clovis Unified school, is in Fresno County’s 93619 ZIP code, where less than 1 percent of teenage girls gave birth between 2011-2014, according […]
September 27, 2017
Disparities
Center Offers New Model for Treating Sickle Cell
Gideon Ogungbemi says the pain caused by sickle cell disease is indescribable. “I can’t put it into words but I know it’s something terrible that I would never want any of my friends to experience,” says Ogungbemi, 28. The pain often drove Ogungbemi to the emergency room, where he says doctors gave him morphine or […]
September 27, 2017
Disparities
Study: Pollution May Cause Kidney Disease
Add kidney disease to the list of health problems associated with air pollution. A team of scientists from Washington University in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs St. Louis Health Care System found an association between tiny particulate matter and kidney disease in two different data sets. Read More
September 27, 2017
Disparities
Is Healthcare a Right?
In the world unable to come to agreement on an answer. Earlier this year, I was visiting Athens, Ohio, the town in the Appalachian foothills where I grew up. The battle over whether to repeal, replace, or repair the Affordable Care Act raged then, as it continues to rage now. So I began asking people […]
September 27, 2017
Disparities
1 Million People Wanted for Ground-Breaking Study
WASHINGTON — U.S. researchers are getting ready to recruit more than 1 million people for an unprecedented study to learn how our genes, environments and lifestyles interact. Today, health care is based on averages, what worked best in short studies of a few hundred or thousand patients. The massive “All of Us” project instead will […]
September 27, 2017
Other News
Poll: Majority Supports Single-Payer Care
A slim majority of Americans support a single-payer health-care system that is funded and administrated by the government and eliminates private insurers, according to a new poll. The latest Harvard-Harris Poll survey found 52 percent favor a single-payer system against 48 who oppose it. A strong majority of Democrats — 69 percent — back the […]
September 27, 2017
Other News
Obamacare Repeal “Dead as a Door Nail;” Senate Won’t Vote
WASHINGTON — Facing assured defeat, Republican leaders decided Tuesday not even to hold a vote on the GOP’s latest attempt to repeal the Obama health care law, surrendering on their last-gasp effort to deliver on the party’s banner campaign promise. “The bill is dead as a door nail,” said Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., leaving a […]
September 27, 2017
Students
Expert: Lower-income Dual Enrollment Students Need Additional Support
A new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) sheds some light on postsecondary degree-completion outcomes once dual enrollment students leave high school on a state-by-state basis.
September 26, 2017
Sports
4 Basketball Assistant Coaches Charged in College Bribery Scheme
Ten men — including a top Adidas executive and four college basketball assistant coaches — were charged Tuesday with using hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes to influence star athletes’ choice of schools, shoe sponsors, agents, even tailors.
September 26, 2017
Opinion
We Need to Talk About the Shifting Meaning of Diversity
The notion that diversity implies accommodating all differences is dangerous and reproduces structural inequality.
September 26, 2017
Students
Analysis: States’ Interest in Outcomes-based Higher Ed Funding Grows
Twice as many states – four – as the prior year adopted outcomes-based funding in higher education in 2017, and a growing number of state legislatures made an effort to do so but got thwarted in the end, a new analysis released Tuesday by the Education Commission of the States shows.
September 26, 2017
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