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Arizona School Gets Big Grant to Study Mine Safety Training

The University of Arizona’s public health college and its mineral resources institute will use a $1.6-million grant to help improve mine safety training. The federal grant, announced Monday, will be used to develop new training methods for mine workers that include computer games. The games will be designed to simulate a real-life mining environment, allowing […]

February 6, 2018

Campus Police Investigating Illegible Graffiti

URBANA, Il. — Police are investigating at the University of Illinois after illegible graffiti was spray-painted on several campus buildings. Police are seeking help finding those responsible. Public information officer Pat Wade said the Illini Union, Student Services Arcade Building, Undergraduate Library and Grainger Library were tagged over the weekend. Wade said police can’t identify […]

February 6, 2018

Oprah Picks Iowa Grad’s New Tome for Book Club

IOWA CITY – Tayari Jones, a University of Iowa graduate, received a literary blessing Tuesday: her latest book, “An American Marriage,” was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her latest book club selection. Winfrey announced her selection of Jones’ latest book for the Oprah Book Club in a video posted on her Facebook and Twitter pages […]

February 6, 2018

Emerging Scholar Profile: Suarez Makes Geological History

Back when she was a first-grader — and long before she found herself in a Utah gully staring at the discovery of a lifetime — Dr. Marina Suarez used to find herself drawn to a large chunk of fossil located in the schoolyard at Boone Elementary School in San Antonio.

February 6, 2018

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Emerging Scholar Profile: Spoonhunter Finds Knowledge is Power in American Indian Studies

Building mutually beneficial knowledge alliances and driving positive impact for Native American communities are at the core of Dr. Tarissa Spoonhunter’s work in academia.

February 6, 2018

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Planning Ahead

A college education is a common denominator for many young people. In fact, more than 20 million students attended colleges and universities in the United States in the fall of 2017, constituting an increase of about 5.1 million since 2000. There is a stronger reliance on higher education than ever, so for many people exiting […]

February 6, 2018

ROTC Woman Earns Submarine Officer Post

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Misha Chalkley doesn’t think about the fact that when she graduates from Jacksonville University in April she will be the first woman from the school’s Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps to earn a post as a submarine warfare officer. She thinks about her future and the people she will lead within the […]

February 6, 2018

Educators Tour Gives Them a Look at Army

JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas — After Randi Hunewill participated in her first Army-sponsored tour several years ago, the Nevada Department of Education (NDE) official, who admits to knowing little about the military beforehand, now unabashedly declares she “drank the Kool-Aid.” Not only did she drink, but Hunewill helps other educators get a […]

February 6, 2018

Senator Offers Bill to Help Military Spouses Get Jobs

Military spouses were the stars of the show when Sen. Tim Kaine came to Suffolk on Friday to talk about new legislation. Kaine on Tuesday will introduce the Military Spouse Employment Act in the Senate, and during his time at Old Dominion University’s Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center in North Suffolk, he discussed the […]

February 6, 2018

Transition Advocate Helps Soldiers Get Financially Fit

Deployments, separation anxiety and credit card debt, are among the many challenges military families may face at some point during their careers. Its challenges like these that retired U.S. Army Sgt. Robert Dawsey says he faced during his 25 years of service in the military. Read More

February 6, 2018

Report: Millions Live in Higher Education “Deserts”

Despite the indelible image of some fresh-faced 18-year-old heading out of state for college, the truth is nearly 40 percent of students attend a school less than 50 miles from home. For students who work full time or have children — a growing segment of the college population — proximity to a physical campus or […]

February 6, 2018

“Gainful Employment” — What Does It Mean?

The Obama Administration’s “gainful employment” regulations are among the most contentious federal education regulations. Ever. For the last nine (!) years, the U.S. Department of Education (ED) has been trying to define the term, and definition may determine whether a school is eligible to receive federal student aid for its programs under the Higher Education […]

February 6, 2018

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Suit Accuses University of Stealing Aid

Brian Gravely, a former official of National American University, recently accused the for-profit school of essentially stealing millions of dollars from the federal student loan program. With the recent shut down of several for-profit “higher education institutions,” could National American University be next? In a federal lawsuit, Gravely, formerly the Legal Studies Director for the […]

February 6, 2018

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Scholars Fear Implications of Commercializing King’s Legacy

A Ram truck commercial shown during Sunday night’s Super Bowl ignited backlash for using one of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s speeches despite his social justice message that criticized the excesses of capitalism, according to scholars.

February 5, 2018

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Center for Advancing Opportunity Releases Findings That Reflect ‘Fragile Communities’

The Thurgood Marshall College Fund in January 2017 announced a bold new partnership with the Charles Koch Foundation to use data-driven analytics to study the problems of “fragile communities” in the United States.

February 5, 2018

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Emerging Scholar Profile: Rogers Employs Psychology to Identify Educational Inequities

Utilizing a developmental psychology approach, Dr. Leoandra “Onnie” Rogers explores how cultural stereotypes and expectations shape the identity development of children and adolescents in urban environments.

February 5, 2018

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Selfie with Severed Heads: Prof, Dental Students Chided

Graduate dental school students and a top University of Connecticut orthodontics professor took a selfie with two severed heads used for medical research at a training workshop at Yale University last year – an episode Yale officials called “disturbing” and “inexcusable”. The selfie was taken in June at the Yale School of Medicine during the […]

February 5, 2018

Stabbed Student Stable, Roommate in Custody

FAIRFIELD, Al. — A Miles College student has been stabbed in Alabama and his roommate is in custody, police said. Fairfield Police Chief Nick Dyer told AL.com that the student is in stable condition at a hospital in Birmingham. He was stabbed several times in the body and the head Sunday morning inside his dorm […]

February 5, 2018