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Panel: New Jersey Colleges Offered Plan to Stem Sex Assaults
TRENTON, N.J. — Colleges need to gather data about sexual violence at their schools, set up clear reporting procedures and establish investigation models if they are to address high rates of on-campus assaults, a New Jersey task force said in a Monday report. Republican Gov. Chris Christie and the state Legislature formed the Task Force […]
June 26, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Adjunct Who Posted About N. Korea Detainee Won’t Be Rehired
WILMINGTON, Del. — The University of Delaware won’t rehire a professor who said a college student who died after being held by North Korea “got exactly what he deserved.” In a statement Sunday, the university said that the adjunct faculty member, Katherine Dettwyler, will not be rehired. She had last taught a course in the […]
June 26, 2017
News Roundup
Iowa Program Aims to Inspire Minority Teachers
CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — A diverse group of high school students have spent a week living on a college campus in Iowa to learn what it’s like to be an educator. Fifteen students participated in the week-long Minority Educators for Today and Tomorrow academy hosted by the University of Northern Iowa, the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier […]
June 26, 2017
Students
Baylor: NCAA Investigation ‘Ongoing, Pending’
AUSTIN, Texas — The NCAA is conducting an “ongoing, pending investigation” into Baylor University in the wake of a sexual assault scandal that led to the firing of football coach Art Briles and the departure of the school president, the school’s lawyers confirmed in a federal court filing. Baylor officials acknowledged the investigation while asking […]
June 26, 2017
Students
Promised College Loan Forgiveness, Borrowers Wait and Wait
BOSTON — Danielle Ramos’ student-debt nightmare was supposed to be over. Like thousands of others who studied at failed for-profit colleges, she was promised by the U.S. Education Department under President Barack Obama that her federal loans would be forgiven by now. But as the weeks tick by with no reprieve, the 30-year-old college student […]
June 26, 2017
Students
Mystery of Missing Chinese Scholar Shakes Up University of Illinois
CHICAGO — Yingying Zhang, the daughter of a working-class factory driver from China, took the same career path as many other young Chinese academics before her: She travelled to a university in the U.S. with dreams of one day landing a professorship and being able to help her parents financially. But just weeks after arriving […]
June 26, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Akinleye Named New Chancellor at N.C. Central University
DURHAM, N.C. — Johnson O. Akinleye has been elected the new chancellor at N.C. Central University, where he has served as interim chancellor since January. Akinleye was elected to the position during a special meeting of the UNC Board of Governors on Monday. He was named acting chancellor in August 2016 when then-chancellor Debra Saunders-White […]
June 26, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Why Trumpcare is Mean, Mean, Mean
The Senate’s bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act is not a healthcare bill. It’s a tax cut for the wealthiest Americans, paid for by a dramatic reduction in healthcare funding for approximately 23 million poor, disabled, and working middle class Americans. America’s wealthiest taxpayers (earning more than $200,000 a year, $250,000 for couples) would […]
June 26, 2017
Policies
Florida Governor Signs Medical Marijuana Law
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed legislation Friday to implement the medical marijuana amendment voters approved last year. Amendment 2, approved by 71 percent of the voters in November, took effect on Jan. 3 and required that laws had to be in place by July 3 for how patients can qualify and receive […]
June 26, 2017
Disparities
Couple Battles Rare Disease
In 2010, Sonia Vallabh watched her mom, Kamni Vallabh, die in a really horrible way. First, her mom’s memory started to go, then she lost the ability to reason. Sonia says it was like watching someone get unplugged from the world. By the end, it was as if she was stuck between being awake and […]
June 26, 2017
Disparities
University Trucks in Medical Training to Rural Nebraska
SCOTTSBLUFF, Neb. — The University of Nebraska Medical Center is trucking in medical training to rural parts of the state. Four trucks equipped to simulate emergency room, ambulance and other scenarios have been stationed in Kearney, Lincoln, Norfolk and Scottsbluff, where the school’s College of Nursing has divisions. The goal is to provide free continuing […]
June 26, 2017
Disparities
U.S. Makes Strides Against Heart Disease — But Not Everywhere
Between 1980 and 2014, the number of Americans dying from cardiovascular disease was cut in half. Though cardiovascular disease — an umbrella term for conditions that affect the heart and circulatory system, commonly known as heart disease — remains the most common cause of death in the U.S. by a wide margin, the drop in […]
June 26, 2017
Disparities
NAS: Evidence on Preventing Dementia Inconclusive
The public is enormously concerned about dementia and cognitive impairment, and a wide range of programs and products, such as diets, exercise regimens, games, and supplements, purport to keep these conditions at bay. It is difficult for individuals, health care providers and policy makers to ascertain what has been demonstrated to prevent or reduce risk. […]
June 26, 2017
Policies
Administration Opposes Syphilis Study Museum
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The Trump administration opposes a bid to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government’s infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honoring victims of the research project. The Justice Department argued in court documents recently that providing the money to the Tuskegee Human and Civil Rights Multicultural Center […]
June 26, 2017
Policies
Senate Support for Health Bill Slips
WASHINGTON — Senate Republican leaders scrambled Sunday to rally support for their health care bill as opposition continued to build inside and outside Congress, and as several Republican senators questioned whether it would be approved this week. President Trump expressed confidence that the bill to repeal the guts of the Affordable Care Act would pass. […]
June 26, 2017
African-American
Experts: Minority Successes Don’t Mean an End to STEM Diversity Issues
Panelists discussed the state of STEM from the diversity viewpoint last week at the National Science Foundation in Washington, D.C., after the screening of Crystal Emery’s “Black Women in Medicine.”
June 25, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Researchers Look to Census Data for Keys to Improving Educational Outcomes
A new report examines racial inequity in education and offers recommendations based off of research which touches on structural barriers that need to be overcome in order to improve educational outcomes for racial groups.
June 25, 2017
Students
Some 2-year Colleges Test-driving New Model
Dougherty Family College is among a wave of two-year colleges that offer associate’s degrees but are not the standard community college in other ways.
June 25, 2017
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