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Accreditors Must Prioritize Outcomes

One of the primary reasons students enroll in college is to improve their chances in the job market. For some, that might mean getting a new or better job. For others, the objective might be higher earnings. While students’ goals vary, one thing remains true: Too many students who take out loans do not earn […]

March 30, 2017

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Companies Pledge 100,000 Jobs for Veterans

PHILADELPHIA, March 28, 2017 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Veteran Recruiting, DAV (Disabled American Veterans) DirectEmployers, and industry leading companies are teaming up to hire at least 100,000 veterans through the VetFriendly Jobs Initiative (VFJI). The group expects to add hundreds of companies who are equally committed to hiring veterans to fill their open positions. The goal of […]

March 30, 2017

Double-Amputee Vet Joins NYPD

BRENTWOOD, N.Y. — The wounded warrior is now a cop — and he’ll be walking the beat on titanium legs. Matias Ferreira, a former U.S. Marine Corps lance corporal who lost his legs below the knee when he stepped on a hidden explosive in Afghanistan in 2011, is joining a suburban New York police department. […]

March 30, 2017

Justice Eludes Former Corinthian Students

Former Corinthian College students who were seeking to have their private loans discharged after the giant for-profit higher education company collapsed have been denied their day in court. In July, Deborah Terrell, a former Corinthian student, filed a class action lawsuit against three loan servicing companies—Turnstile Capital Management (Turnstile), Balboa Student Loan Trust (Balboa), and […]

March 30, 2017

Do Homework on Schools, Veteran Warns

Alex Austin is on his way to a career he never dreamed possible, thanks in part to the Post-9/11 GI Bill. But Austin, who graduates from the University of Pittsburgh in December with a master’s degree in international development, hit roadblocks along the way. His is at once a success story and a cautionary tale […]

March 30, 2017

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Minnesota Legislature Considers Aid for Guardsmen

Student veterans could see more tuition help if a bill passes the Minnesota Legislature. A bill, gaining steam Senate and House committees, would add $11.54 million in tuition incentives for University of Minnesota National Guard members. The request is up from past budget years, which lawmakers said was meant to mirror added participation in the […]

March 30, 2017

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N.C. Bill Would Cut Tuition for Military

RALEIGH — Legislation pending at the North Carolina General Assembly is intended to reduce tuition costs for military personnel attending North Carolina’s community colleges. It is designed for personnel who have to temporarily stop taking classes and leave the state because of their military duties. It would let them continue to pay less than the […]

March 30, 2017

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

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

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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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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