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North Georgia Will Offer Cybersecurity Degree

The Georgia Board of Regents on Tuesday approved the University of North Georgia’s proposal to create a cybersecurity degree program. The degree is part of an effort that could enhance the university’s credentials as a hub for cybersecurity. All 14 U.S. House of Representatives from Georgia signed a letter last month urging the House’s Armed […]

May 17, 2018

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Army Veteran and Coma Survivor Bond Over Science

Around the time Dreyvon McCray was relearning how to walk and talk and live in a world in which a kid can be beaten into a coma over a cell phone, Terin D’amico was jumping out of airplanes and pondering a life after the military. In 2016, their paths crossed in the cafeteria at Governors […]

May 17, 2018

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What Happens When For-Profits Lose Aid

The Trump administration may undo regulations that punish for-profit colleges if their graduates are unable to earn enough money to repay their student loans. In this episode, Paul Peterson is joined by the authors of a new study that examines the impact on student enrollment in for-profit colleges and community colleges when the federal government […]

May 17, 2018

Dad Deployed, Mom of 5 Graduates Law School

SALT LAKE CITY — Kim Reeves had three children, one on the way, when she decided she wanted to go to law school. She had already earned a bachelor’s degree in history and a master’s in business administration, but Reeves was still seeking a path that would lend to more flexibility given the responsibilities of […]

May 17, 2018

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5 Top Reasons to Join Army: It’s about Money

Americans join the Army for plenty of reasons: for country, family, and honor. According to a new study of enlisted soldiers, however, a core motivation is relatively simple: for money. A RAND Corporation exhaustive survey of 81 soldiers between E-1 and E-4 suggests that the choice to enlist is influenced by two overlapping factors: institutional ones like […]

May 17, 2018

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My Mother’s Legacy in Education

I attribute my career in education to my mother, a preschool teacher’s aide at a small Catholic elementary school in the Bronx. After graduating high school, she spent the rest of her life doing everything she could to support her two children.

May 17, 2018

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Achieving Equity in Education: Journalists as Truth-Tellers and Teachers

LOS ANGELES — Gathered for the 2018 Education Writers Association National Seminar, hundreds of education journalists heard from education experts, thought leaders and fellow journalists about ways to make their coverage of education issues nuanced, culturally relevant and enlightening.

May 16, 2018

RONALD S. ROCHON

RONALD S. ROCHON has been appointed president of the University of Southern Indiana (USI). He currently serves as provost of USI. Rochon earned a bachelor’s degree at Tuskegee University and master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

May 16, 2018

CARRIE BRIMHALL

CARRIE BRIMHALL has been appointed president of Minnesota State Community and Technical College in Fergus Falls, effective July 1. Brimhall earned an associate’s degree from Minnesota State Community and Technical College, a bachelor’s degree from Concordia College and a master’s degree and a doctorate from Capella University.

May 16, 2018

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A. ZACHARY FAISON, JR.

A. ZACHARY FAISON, JR. has been named president and CEO of Edward Waters College. Faison earned a bachelor’s degree from Albany State University and a J.D. from the University of Georgia School of Law.

May 16, 2018

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Waffle House Shooting Hero, TSU Alum, Presents Funds Raised for Victims

James Shaw Jr., hailed a hero for toppling a gunman who killed four people and injured others at a Waffle House in Tennessee., was recognized by his alma mater, Tennessee State University, at a recent event where he presented funds he had raised for victims.

May 16, 2018

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College-Bound Public High School Grads on the Rise

BATON ROUGE, La. – Louisiana education officials say 23,517 public high school students who graduated in 2017 enrolled in college in the fall. That’s a record for the state. Tuesday’s news release from the Department of Education says it’s an increase of more than 500 from the previous year, and it’s up by more than […]

May 16, 2018

College of St. Joseph in Danger of Losing Accreditation

RUTLAND, Vt. A small, private Vermont college is in danger of losing its accreditation. The Rutland Herald reports the New England Association of Schools and Colleges said Tuesday that the College of St. Joseph may not meet financial standards outlined by the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education. The college’s board of trustees announced last […]

May 16, 2018

Tom Wolfe, Pioneering Journalist and Novelist, Dies at 88

Tom Wolfe, the influential writer whose unconventional, exuberant prose laid the foundation for so-called New Journalism and fueled his best-sellers The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died. He was 88. Lynn Nesbit, Wolfe’s agent, told the Associated Press that Wolfe died of an infection Monday in a hospital in Manhattan. Wolfe’s […]

May 16, 2018

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Being a Good Ally

Much has been said about the African-American graduate student at Yale who was reported by a White peer to campus police for napping in a common room. I can identify. In stating my sympathy as an Asian American, however, I appreciate that my circumstances are easier. A good ally takes care to avoid appropriating another person’s suffering.

May 16, 2018

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Tagging Malaria

As a volunteer physician in a small hospital in Nigeria 30 years ago, I was bitten by lots of mosquitoes and soon came down with headache, chills, fever, and muscle aches. It was malaria. Fortunately, the drug available to me then was effective, but I was pretty sick for a few days. Since that time, […]

May 16, 2018

S.T.D. Rates in L.A. Skyrocket

The teenagers tucked their hands into their sweatshirt pockets as they shuffled to form a circle. Some gazed at the asphalt, trying to avoid the game they had been drafted to play. “It’s like hot potato/musical chairs, but with a penis,” said the girl leading the group. The kids gathered on a spring morning in […]

May 16, 2018

Nurse Charged in Patient’s Death after a Fall

A nurse was charged Thursday in the death of the father of President Trump’s former national security advisor after authorities said she failed to give him a series of neurological exams after his fall at a Philadelphia senior care facility. Christann Shyvin Gainey, 30, was charged with involuntary manslaughter, neglect and records tampering in the […]

May 16, 2018