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Students
Trump’s ‘Mixed Bag’ Budget Spares Some Programs, Cuts Others
The 2017 budget bill expected to be sent to President Donald J. Trump this week is a mixed bag when it comes to college access and affordability.
May 1, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Dear Mr. Trump, About Single-Payer
Single-payer healthcare is making a comeback. A new survey by Morning Consult/Gallup finds that 44 percent of American voters support universal, government-run healthcare. Meanwhile, two California state senators introduced the Healthy California Act in February, a bill that would create a single-payer system in the Golden State. Even some prominent conservatives are backing the idea. […]
May 1, 2017
Nursing
Board Bars New Enrollments for Nursing Program
Low examination pass rates from Houston Community College’s vocational nursing graduates provoked state accreditors to block the school from enrolling new students to the program until scores improve. The Texas Board of Nursing placed the vocational nursing program, which grants certificates, on “conditional” status at its April meeting because less than 80 percent of graduates […]
May 1, 2017
Disparities
Native American Health Exhibit on Tour
WICHITA FALLS, TX – For the next six weeks, Midwestern State University’s Moffett Library will feel more like a museum as the traveling exhibit “Native Voices Native Peoples’ Concepts of Health and Illness” makes residence in the leisure reading area. MSU was one of six sites selected to host the exhibit that allows visitors to […]
May 1, 2017
Disparities
NIH Research Helps Asthma Sufferers
May is Asthma Awareness Month, and the National Institutes of Health is finding solutions to improve the health of the nearly 25 million people in the United States who currently have asthma. In recent decades, the prevalence of asthma has been increasing, resulting in millions of urgent medical visits and missed days of work and […]
May 1, 2017
Policies
Yale Law Clinic Sues for Vets with PTSD
The Yale Law School Veterans Legal Services Clinic filed a national class-action lawsuit last week on behalf of two U.S. Army veterans, Stephen Kennedy and Alicia Carson, who allege that they were wrongfully denied honorable discharges as a result of mental health conditions incurred during their military service. The suit alleges that the Army Discharge […]
May 1, 2017
Disparities
Md. Governor Orders Study of Pot Disparities
ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has ordered a study of the state’s developing medical marijuana industry to ensure opportunities for minority participation. Hogan directed the Governor’s Office of Minority Affairs to initiate a disparity study. He instructed the office to work together with the state’s medical marijuana commission and the transportation department. “As […]
May 1, 2017
Other News
Healthcare Pros Critical of First 100 Days
We asked our audience of healthcare insiders about President Trump’s work on healthcare since he took office in January. Representing many political views from around the country, the majority of responses (coincidentally, we received 100 replies to this survey) were in agreement that the first 100 days of Trump’s presidency lacked clarity on healthcare’s future. […]
May 1, 2017
Policies
Trump Claims Plan Will Cover Pre-existing Illness
President Trump appeared to suggest on Sunday that the GOP’s new iteration of its healthcare bill to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act would cover pre-existing conditions for all Americans. Trump, seeming to break from House Republicans’ latest proposal that states could opt out of an Affordable Care Act requirement on covering pre-existing conditions, […]
May 1, 2017
Students
UCLA Report: Rising Higher Ed Costs Stifling Freshman Students
The escalating costs of higher education are strongly influencing where first-generation college students attend school and even whether they move out of their parents’ home.
May 1, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Guillermo: Hidden Cash, Not Coulter, University of California’s Problem
By making news last week, Ann Coulter actually helped obscure a real news story when a state audit revealed that the University of California had a hidden surplus of $175 million.
April 30, 2017
Students
Trump’s Blueprint for Failing Our Nation’s Students
Trump proposes a 13 percent decline in funding to the U.S. Department of Education, with higher education programs comprising most of what will be sliced.
April 30, 2017
Home
Scholars Find AERA Meeting Perfect for Seeking Answers
One attendee called the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), a family reunion where she doles out hugs and kisses to her colleagues that she only gets to see about once a year.
April 30, 2017
Students
GOP Bill Would Discipline Hecklers at College Speeches
MADISON, Wis. — University of Wisconsin students who disrupt speeches and demonstrations could be expelled and campuses would have to remain neutral on public issues under a bill Republican legislators are pushing this week. The bill comes as free speech issues have grown more contentious on college campuses across the country. Conservatives are worried that […]
April 30, 2017
Students
Cornell Male Singing Group Booted from Campus for Hazing
ITHACA, N.Y. — Cornell University officials say the college’s oldest all-male a capella group has been permanently dismissed from campus for hazing that included requiring new members to put Icy Hot muscle cream on their genitals. According to the Ivy League school’s website on hazing, Cayuga’s Waiters initially were suspended two weeks into the 2016 […]
April 30, 2017
Women
University of Illinois Statue Honors Women in Engineering
URBANA, Ill. — A new statue on the University of Illinois’ campus honors women in engineering. Sakshi Srivastava, a graduate student in electrical engineering, began the campaign for the statue when she was a junior in the university’s undergraduate program to inspire women going into the male-dominated engineering field, The News-Gazette reported. Srivastava launched an […]
April 30, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Montreat College Mandates Staff Opposition to Gay Marriage
MONTREAT, N.C. — A private North Carolina Christian college is insisting that its faculty and staff sign a document that opposes same-sex marriage and abortion. One faculty member says she and eight of her colleagues have refused to sign it and are leaving the school. News media outlets report that part of Montreat College’s “Community […]
April 30, 2017
Students
Prosecutor: Charges Likely in Deadly Fall at Penn State Frat
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The investigation into the February death of a Penn State University fraternity pledge who fell down stairs is likely to result in charges against several people for “conduct surrounding the death of another person,” a prosecutor says in a new court filing. Centre County District Attorney Stacy Parks Miller said Friday the […]
April 30, 2017
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