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International Collaborative Explores Social and Emotional Learning in Higher Education

PRINCETON, N.J. – As he talked, listened and observed over the course of three days at a New Jersey conference center, Dr. Monte Randall kept thinking about the struggles of students at College of the Muscogee Nation in Oklahoma, where he is dean of academic affairs, and at the other 35 tribal schools in the American Indian Higher Education Consortium.

July 12, 2018

The Wild West

Everyone in America should be concerned about recent news that the U.S. Department of Education has quietly but steadily deprioritized investigations into fraud and abuse by a number of for-profit institutions. This doesn’t just impact current and future students — it affects every tax-paying citizen in our country. Higher education is more than a series […]

July 12, 2018

Navy Changes Tuition Aid Policy

The U.S. Navy recently removed the fiscal year limit of 16 semester hours (or equivalent) and allowed Sailors to use tuition assistance (TA) up to the funding cap of $4,500. TA will continue to be paid up to the current DoD limits of $250 per semester hour, $166.67 per quarter hour, or $16.67 per clock […]

July 12, 2018

Art Institute California, Argosy U. to Close in Bay Area

SAN FRANCISCO — The Bay Area campuses of the Art Institute of California and Argosy University will close at the end of the year, according to the organization that owns them, Dream Center Education Holdings, LLC. “After a complete and thorough examination of the three education systems in the DCEH network to ensure they are […]

July 12, 2018

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Defunct For-Profit ITT’s Former Execs Settle Fraud Charge

Former top executives at ITT Educational Services, the parent company of defunct ITT Technical Institute, have settled fraud charges with the Securities and Exchange Commission, avoiding a trial that was slated to begin Monday. A judgment order entered Friday puts to rest civil fraud charges filed in 2015 against former ITT Chief Executive Kevin Modany […]

July 12, 2018

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Senate Panel Approves V.A. Nominee

WASHINGTON — Robert Wilkie, the latest choice by President Donald Trump to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, was easily approved Tuesday by the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee, moving his nomination to a vote by the full Senate. The VA committee advanced Wilkie’s nomination with a voice vote Tuesday afternoon. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., was […]

July 12, 2018

Is Army’s Command and General Staff College Barring Pregnant Officers?

Last year, several pregnant officers were informed upon arrival to CGSC that due to their physical state they would not be allowed to attend. School leadership informed one of us, Maj. Jenny Gunderson, that she could not start the course and would have to disenroll—but, they added if she were to come back next week […]

July 12, 2018

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Army Unveils New 6-Point Fitness Test

The Army will roll out its long-planned update to its physical fitness test during the next two years, with a new six-event assessment that will dramatically improve the service’s ability to predict how a soldier will perform in combat, senior officials said Monday. By October 2020, the new test, dubbed the Army Combat Fitness Test, […]

July 12, 2018

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FBI: Education Fraud Scheme Was ‘Straight Up Stealing’

In a bait-and-switch scheme, a group of fraudsters used educational programs for veterans to enrich themselves while cheating service members out of an education they were entitled to under the law, according to FBI.gov. The GI Bill provides the country’s service members and veterans a free or reduced-cost college education to those who qualify, offering […]

July 12, 2018

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Part II: Whose Responsibility Is It? The Role of Students in Their Journey to Academic Success

Every instructor, teacher and professor was once a student in a classroom. Yes, times have changed significantly, yet the fundamentals of the college experience and the goals for your teaching and student learning remain universal.

July 11, 2018

HBCU Leaders Push to Make their Campuses More LGBTQ Inclusive

Creating better inclusion for LGBTQ students at historically Black colleges and universities was the focus of the second annual “Historically Black Colleges and Universities Leadership Summit on LGBTQ Inclusion for University Presidents and Senior Executives” hosted by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation

July 11, 2018

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Setting the Agenda for Tennessee’s HBCUs

Brittany L. Mosby is in the role of her dreams as the nation’s first director of HBCU Success for the Tennessee Higher Education Commission. In marrying her passion for historically Black colleges and universities, higher education, diversity and inclusion and state-level policy research, Mosby is setting a strategic agenda to move the state’s seven HBCUs forward.

July 11, 2018

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Appeals Court Hears Challenge to Texas Campus Carry Law

NEW ORLEANS — Attorneys for three University of Texas professors asked a federal appeals court Wednesday to revive their challenge of a law allowing people with concealed-handgun licenses to carry weapons on public university campuses. Two of the professors, Lisa Moore and Mia Carter, were on the front row as a three-judge panel of the […]

July 11, 2018

CU Boulder Professor Pleads Guilty to Mail Fraud

BOULDER, Colo. — A mechanical engineering professor at the University of Colorado Boulder has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for using funds from a research grant for personal expenses, including international travel. Oleg Viktorovich Vasilyev, 50, pleaded guilty Monday. Sentencing on the federal charge is scheduled for Oct. 25. Court records show Vasilyev received a […]

July 11, 2018

GOP Candidates Call for University to Remove Flag Art Piece

LAWRENCE, Kan. Kansas Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach on Wednesday demanded that the University of Kansas take down an art display that involves an altered U.S. flag, calling it disrespectful to the military. The piece, called “Untitled (Flag 2), is the last of a series of flag pieces that have […]

July 11, 2018

TRACY L. BRUNDAGE

TRACY L. BRUNDAGE was named president of Keystone College. She will be the first woman to lead the school since it transitioned to a four-year institution from a junior college. Brundage currently serves as the school’s provost and vice president for academic affairs. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Gettysburg College and a master’s degree and doctorate from Pennsylvania State University.

July 11, 2018

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TOKI WRIGHT

TOKI WRIGHT was named assistant chair of professional music department at Berklee College of Music. Wright, a producer, writer, MC and community organizer, will take on his new duties effective July 15. He also led the country’s first fully accredited Hip-Hop Studies program at McNally Smith College of Music.

July 11, 2018

DALE-ELIZABETH PEHRSSON

DALE-ELIZABETH PEHRSSON has been named president of Clarion University. She currently serves as dean of the College of Education and Human Services at Central Michigan University. Pehrsson earned her bachelor’s degree from the University at Albany, two master’s degrees and a doctorate from Idaho State University.

July 11, 2018

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