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Academics
Report: Veterans Disproportionately Affected by For-Profit Closings
When ITT Tech closed, many higher education reformers cheered. Poor performing for-profits and nonprofits had skated by for years, taking in billions in federal funds while delivering very little in the way of returns to their students. The decision by the Department of Education to revoke the authority of ITT Tech’s accreditor and then eventually […]
November 17, 2016
Academics
Law Schools Experiment with Online Learning
For John Sears, a third-year Juris Doctor candidate at the Wake Forest University School of Law, the teaching style in a course last fall titled “Professional Responsibility” differed from his other classes. Rather than taking notes during lectures, the 37-year-old watched videos, listened to podcasts and answered multiple-choice questions remotely. Read More
November 17, 2016
Academics
Coursera Embraces Netflix Model
This new subscription model for online learning could be a game-changer in online education. By financially incentivizing course completion, Coursera will likely boost the number of learners enrolling and completing programs in their courses and could be one step closer to realizing the original vision of MOOCS, once seen as poised to revolutionize the higher […]
November 17, 2016
Academics
Columbia College Trains Staff to Aid Veterans
As an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps, Landon Miller, a 22-year-old Columbia College student veteran, said walking into a counseling center or seeking help of any kind can be a challenge for veterans. Military members often don’t want to show signs of what could be perceived as weakness, he said. To combat that stigma […]
November 17, 2016
Students
Department of Education Officials Recount Gains as Uncertainty Looms
What the future holds for U.S. Department of Education initiatives and the higher education sector as a whole under a Trump administration is not yet clear.
November 16, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Eduardo Padrón to Receive Presidential Medal of Freedom
Dr. Eduardo Padrón reached another milestone in his celebrated career in higher education when it was announced Wednesday that he will receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor.
November 16, 2016
African-American
TMCF to Trump: Let Supreme Court Reflect Diversity
There is huge merit to diversifying a Court that will increasingly make decisions impacting everyday Americans.
November 16, 2016
Students
For-profit Colleges Decry ‘Demonization’ by Obama Administration
As speculation continued over how a Trump administration might treat for-profit colleges, supporters and critics of the institutions sparred Thursday over whether the institutions got a bum rap under the Obama administration.
November 16, 2016
Leadership & Policy
University of California Workers Strike for Higher Wages
SAN FRANCISCO — Electricians, elevator mechanics, plumbers and other workers walked off the job Wednesday at UCLA to demand higher wages on day one of two planned strikes this week at a pair of University of California campuses. A 24-hour strike was taking place at UCLA and a similar walkout was planned Thursday at UC […]
November 16, 2016
Leadership & Policy
California Universities Weigh First Tuition Hikes in 6 Years
SAN FRANCISCO —Faced with record high enrollment and the need to hire faculty, the University of California and California State University systems are considering raising tuition for the first time in six years. The proposed annual hikes – $270 at the 23 Cal State schools and $280 at UC’s nine undergraduate campuses — are being […]
November 16, 2016
Leadership & Policy
Board Extends North Dakota State President’s Contract
FARGO, N.D. —The state Board of Higher Education met behind closed doors for more than two hours Wednesday before deciding that the North Dakota State University president should keep his job. The board voted during its regular monthly meeting in Bismarck to renew Dean Bresciani’s contract for another year, six months after the board told […]
November 16, 2016
Blogs/Opinion
“My Son Did Not Have to Die” from Prescribed Drug
On July 23, 2007, my 17-year-old son, Logan Parker, underwent successful surgery at a freestanding ASC to correct his sleep apnea. He received IV morphine in the PACU: 2 mg administered 3 times over 20 minutes beginning at 12:50 p.m. His IV was removed 8 minutes later and he was discharged at 1:25 p.m., just […]
November 16, 2016
Other News
Dental Hygiene to Prevent Disease Among Wampanoag
Massachusetts’s summer resorts in Cape Cod and Martha’s Vineyard offer miles of sand and sea, and they are not among the areas of the country that one would think have a dental disparity problem. The Wampanoag Native Americans who are based on the Cape and Vineyard, however, experience a lack of preventive and low-cost restorative […]
November 16, 2016
Nursing
College Gets Grant for Native Americans in Nursing
The Indian Health Service has awarded a grant of more than $300,000 to University of New Mexico College of Nursing to educate more American Indian and Native Alaskan nursing students. The three-year “American Indians Into Nursing” grant brings together the UNM College of Nursing, San Juan College and UNM Center for Native American Health. Read […]
November 16, 2016
Disparities
Former Surgeon General Addresses Health Disparities
Novello, MD, former U.S. Surgeon General, November 4 during a lecture sponsored by Feinberg’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, speaking on health disparities in the United States. “She is impressive and inspiring; she has had an incredible personal journey. She is here to share her wisdom, her life story and her experiences,” said Clyde Yancy, […]
November 16, 2016
Disparities
Statins Underused Among Women, Minorities
Use of cholesterol-lowering statin medications in the United States rocketed upward 80% in the decade between 2002 and 2013. But new research suggests that the drugs shown to prevent heart attacks and strokes remain underused, especially among women, ethnic minorities and the uninsured. Close to 40 million American adults over 40 took statin medications in […]
November 16, 2016
Other News
S.D. Governor Ditches Medicaid Plan After Talk with Pence
PIERRE, S.D. — Republican Gov. Dennis Daugaard says he won’t pursue an expansion of Medicaid in 2017 after a discussion with Vice President-elect Mike Pence. The South Dakota governor said in a statement that his decision is based on a meeting November 14 in which he and Pence talked about the Trump administration’s plans for […]
November 16, 2016
Policies
Women’s Caucus: “Fight Trump on Abortion, Healthcare”
California’s women lawmakers are fighting against President-elect Donald Trump’s statements that he’d support overturning abortion rights. “President-elect Trump’s statements and policies threaten to restrict our freedoms, cut off our healthcare, affect our economy and the pocketbooks of working families, and drag us back to an era of back alley abortions,” said state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson […]
November 16, 2016
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