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Opinion
Is Our Nation Prepared for the Next 4 Years?
Would anyone disagree that we are living in some troubling times in the United States of America?
March 29, 2017
Students
Diverse Conversations: What Minority High School Students Need to Know About College
What minority students are taught in high school about the college experience has a major impact on their decisions. So, what should we be teaching them about college?
March 29, 2017
Home
Diverse Docket: Court Backs Goddard College in Bias Suit
A federal appeals court has declined to reinstate a national origin discrimination suit by a former faculty member of Japanese ancestry against Goddard College in Vermont.
March 29, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Johnnetta Cole Contemplates Next Challenge
Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole, who transcends boundaries through her dedication and love for higher education, is stepping down as director of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art.
March 29, 2017
News Roundup
Erotic Stories Found in Bowling Green State Professor’s Research for Ohio Agency
BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — A university has suspended a professor after erotic stories were included in a batch of computer files he returned to the state Department of Transportation at the end of a research project. Alan Atalah, a construction management professor at Bowling Green State University, was suspended “effective immediately” on release of a […]
March 29, 2017
Students
Hungary: Soros-founded University Vows Resistance to New Law
BUDAPEST, Hungary — The rector of Central European University said Wednesday that the institution will resist legal amendments proposed by the Hungarian government, regarding them as discriminatory. CEU, opened in 1991, was founded by Hungarian-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros, considered an ideological opponent by Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The proposal was considered an extension of […]
March 29, 2017
Students
Rollins College Student Suspended for Treatment of Muslim Professor
WINTER PARK, Fla. — A student at Rollins College in Florida has been suspended temporarily for his treatment of his Muslim professor. The Christian student says he is the victim of religious discrimination. A disciplinary hearing was held Tuesday for Rollins student Marshall Polston. The outcome is pending. The Orlando Sentinel reports that professor Areej […]
March 29, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Trump’s Attack on The Poor
Obamacare will be the law of the land for the “foreseeable future”, the speaker of the US House of Representatives, Paul Ryan, admitted in the aftermath of the abject failure of Donald Trump or the Republican party to “repeal or replace” Obama’s flagship Affordable Care Act (ACA) after seven years of bleating about it. The […]
March 29, 2017
Disparities
Gene Sequencing Project Will Focus on Latinos
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Sanford Health, one of the largest health systems in the country, is partnering with the flagship hospital of the Miami Children’s Health System to sequence the genes of nearly 1,000 Latinos and Hispanics to better understand the health needs of the populations. Philanthropist Denny Sanford and Sanford Health have given $7 […]
March 29, 2017
Other News
Efforts to Prevent Teen Births Continue
WHITINSVILLE – Jocelyn Arriaga was ready for college. In fall 2012, the recent Douglas High School graduate had picked out her classes at Quinsigamond Community College in anticipation of starting her first semester in the spring. That was before an unexpected pregnancy upended her plans. Instead of college, the Whitinsville resident became one of the […]
March 29, 2017
Nursing
School Nurses Try to Curb LGBT Suicides
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Researchers in New Mexico, California and Maryland are working with public school nurses in hopes of curbing suicide rates within the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community by making school grounds safer. University of New Mexico pediatrics professor Mary Ramos and colleagues at the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation and the […]
March 29, 2017
Other News
Bill Would Raise Pay for Health Aides
AUGUSTA, Maine — Advocates say that a Republican’s bill would help the state address a looming shortage of home health care workers. Assistant House Minority Leader Ellie Espling’s bill would direct the state Department of Health and Human Services to increase reimbursement rates for home-based care services. Her bill is set for a public hearing […]
March 29, 2017
Policies
Bill Tells Colleges to Stock Abortive Pills
A new bill might allow students at California’s public universities and colleges to receive medical abortion pills at student health centers, NBC4’s media partner KPCC reports. The bill — currently in the California legislature — would require all public universities and community colleges in the state to provide the pregnancy-ending pills. A medical abortion ends […]
March 29, 2017
Policies
Budget Cuts Protections for Medical Errors
Headlines such as “Republicans Pan Trump Budget” and “Donald Trump’s Budget Is Universally Unloved” have suggested that identifying problems with President Donald Trump’s proposed federal budget has been like pointing out wet spots on the Titanic. For example, a chorus along the political spectrum have criticized the proposed drastic National Institutes of Health (NIH) budget […]
March 29, 2017
Other News
Failure Could Signal Radical Change
Friday’s stunning defeat of the long-awaited GOP healthcare bill sent a deafening wake up call to President Donald Trump, who immediately told reporters his campaign promise failure was a learning experience. The new president, who spent the majority of his weekends at the private luxury Mar-A-Lago estate in Florida during his first months in office, […]
March 29, 2017
Policies
GOP Hopes to Revive Health Bill
House Republicans struck an optimistic note Tuesday that they would be able to salvage their failed health-care bill, but there was little indication of any concrete shift in the political fundamentals that led to its failure. Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) told reporters that “some of those who were in the ‘no’ camp expressed a […]
March 29, 2017
Students
Bill Proposed to Put Dropouts Back on Educational Path
Rep. Bobby Scott has introduced legislation aimed to help out-of-school youth. Advocates say it is needed to help “disconnected” access higher ed.
March 28, 2017
Students
Naturalization Expert Weaves Ethnic Studies into Civics
Whenever Daisy Herrera spots fearful facial tics or hears anxiety in the voices of students she reassures them that the process of becoming U.S. citizens doesn’t require them to renounce their Latina/o heritage and culture.
March 28, 2017
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