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More Colleges Host Women as Grad Speakers

This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]

May 10, 2018

School Officials Recommend Revoking Cosby’s Honorary Degree

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Officials with the University of Maryland, College Park, have recommended revoking Bill Cosby’s honorary degree after the comedian’s sexual assault conviction. University spokeswoman Katie Lawson tells The Baltimore Sun the decision by the school’s committee on honorary degrees will be sent to the University System of Maryland office for Board of […]

May 10, 2018

Big Jump in Job Program for Foreign Graduates of US Colleges

WASHINGTON— A program that allows foreign students to stay in the United States for temporary employment after graduation has expanded significantly over a dozen years as technical companies stepped up hiring of science and engineering majors, according to a report released Thursday. The study by Pew Research Center in Washington comes as colleges and universities […]

May 10, 2018

Military Spouse Day

Each May we memorialize the men and women who sacrifice their lives defending our freedom. Often forgotten are military spouses who maintain households and raise children. On May 23, 1984, President Ronald Reagan signed the first proclamation declaring Military Spouse Day. Now celebrated the Friday before Mother’s Day, National Spouse Day recognizes the husbands and […]

May 10, 2018

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Congress Wants Review of Children Abused on Bases

Congress has asked its watchdog agency to investigate the Pentagon’s handling of child-on-child sex assaults on U.S. military bases following reporting by The Associated Press that detailed how failures of justice leave victims with little support and offenders little consequence. The AP’s investigation , which documented nearly 700 cases worldwide over 10 years, has prompted […]

May 10, 2018

Debate Expected on Vouchers for Military Families

The bill would allow military families to receive funding from federal impact aid to create education savings accounts that they could use to pay for private school tuition, preschool or even college. There’s a political battle brewing on Capitol Hill over a proposal to allow military families to use a portion of federal aid awarded […]

May 10, 2018

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10 of Med School’s Grads Sworn-In to Service

Campbell University’s School of Medicine students who will serve in the United States Air Force, Army and Navy took the oath of office during today’s commissioning ceremony. A total of 10 graduating students received promotions; the Army and Air Force graduates were promoted to the rank of captain while the Navy graduates were promoted to […]

May 10, 2018

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Swatch Donates Equipment to Veteran Watchmakers

A dream built on donations received its largest gift to date that’s catapulted Delaware’s Veterans Watchmaker Initiative (VWI) into a new realm. “It overnight became a world-class school.” Sam Cannan’s grin from ear to ear showed his gratitude when words failed him. His Veterans Watchmaker Initiative (VWI) that started up officially last fall after years […]

May 10, 2018

Connecticut Extends Benefits to “Less Than Honorable”

HARTFORD — The General Assembly approved a bill Tuesday night that would allow veterans given other than honorable discharges for mental-health reasons, to become eligible for health services and educational support from which they are currently prohibited. More than 800 veterans now could be eligible for state benefits, according to the Connecticut Chapter of Iraq […]

May 10, 2018

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Grad Student Union Urges STEM Boycott of U.S. Military

A graduate student union is demanding that STEM workers “refuse employment” in the military, and that 90 percent of all military spending be reallocated to “social justice” efforts. The Graduate Employee Organization (GEO) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign formally endorsed the STEM Strikes the War Machine campaign in a press release Friday, encouraging […]

May 10, 2018

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Most of Transfers Princeton’s Taking Are from Military

Princeton University has offered admission to 13 transfer students for entry in fall 2018, the first transfer admissions since the University reinstated its transfer program. The renewed program is aimed at especially encouraging applicants from low-income, military or community college backgrounds. The University received 1,429 applications for the transfer program, which looked to enroll a small […]

May 10, 2018

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University of Rochester to Give Frederick Douglass Honorary Degree Posthumously

Frederick Douglass — the former Maryland slave who later emerged as a prominent abolitionist leader — will receive an honorary doctorate posthumously next week from the University of Rochester.

May 9, 2018

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Tuskegee Names Lily D. McNair as President

The selection of Dr. Lily D. McNair as Tuskegee University’s eighth president is being hailed by university community members as precisely who the institution needs to ensure its future legacy in higher education.

May 9, 2018

University of California Nurses, Cooks Strike for Third Day

SAN FRANCISCO — Thousands of University of California nurses, pharmacists and other medical staff joined walkouts by service workers again Wednesday, forcing medical centers to close and reschedule thousands of appointments and surgeries. The three-day strike was called last week by American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299 when the union and […]

May 9, 2018

Amid #MeToo, More Colleges Host Women As Graduation Speakers

This graduation season, the podium is all hers. For the first time in at least two decades, the majority of the nation’s top colleges are featuring women as their spring commencement speakers, a shift that industry experts credit to the wave of female empowerment that has fueled the #MeToo movement. Yale is bringing Hillary Clinton. […]

May 9, 2018

David Hogg Is Postponing College to Push Gun Control

PARKLAND, Fla. — Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg says he wants voters to know which lawmakers are backed by the National Rifle Association before the mid-term elections. The #NeverAgain leader and high school senior says he’s postponing college for a year to engage in gun-reform activism, focusing mostly on getting students and others registered […]

May 9, 2018

Mothering Behind Bars

As we grow older, Mother’s Day evokes grief over the loss of grandmothers and other mother figures who have made their transition. Yet for 2 million children in the United States, this Mother’s Day reveals the human costs of our addiction to incarceration.

May 9, 2018

Where Health Aide Shortage Hits Hardest

The shortage of home health aides in the industry is no secret, but the exact pace of demand will far exceed the supply of health care workers over the next few years, according to a new report from Mercer. The number of new job openings for home health aides by 2025 is expected to reach […]

May 9, 2018