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Veterans
Textbook Helps Veterans Transition
Written for veterans, The Transitioning Student Veteran in Higher Education helps readers apply their active duty experiences to the right higher education choices and career paths. Many veterans struggle to figure out how their military experience can be applied to a higher education experience, and they’re not sure what career paths they’re suited for in […]
April 4, 2017
Other News
Future Pell Grant Funding in Danger?
A proposed plan by President Donald J. Trump to take a total of $3.9 billion from the federal Pell Grant surplus is either “reckless or a spectacularly devious political play.” That is the take of Michael Dannenberg, director of strategic initiatives for policy at Education Reform Now, a District-based education research and policy organization. While […]
April 4, 2017
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Patrick Ewing to Become Head Coach of the Georgetown Hoyas
Patrick Ewing is returning to his alma mater to become the Head Coach of the Georgetown Hoyas.
April 3, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Turmoil Continues at Morehouse College Over Wilson’s Ouster
A period of apparent unrest at Morehouse College continues after faculty took a vote of no confidence in the board of trustee’s chairman, Robert C. Davidson Jr. on March 21. Faculty took the vote in response to board governance practices brought to light after the board voted in January to not renew current Morehouse President Dr. John Silvanus Wilson’s contract. Wilson, who served as president for four years, is set to step down on June 30.
April 3, 2017
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Low-Income Students are Vulnerable in a Shifting College Access Landscape
The removal of previous gains and the erosion of certain channels of access through various means have characterized the landscape of higher education access and affordability.
April 3, 2017
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Moore Receives AERA Recognition At Annual Meeting
When the American Association for Educational Research convenes in San Antonio later this month, Dr. James L. Moore III will be recognized with the 2017 AERA Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award. The Committee on Scholars of Color in Education Awards recognize scholars in various stages in their careers who have contributed significantly to the understanding of issues that disproportionately affect minority populations, and minority scholars who have made a significant contribution to education research and development.
April 3, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Nursing Error & Son’s Death
On Saturday, the 5th of November, 2011, my life fell apart when my only son Tyler left this world. One week before that, on the morning of the 28th of October, I received a phone call that no mother ever wants to receive. I was asked to go immediately to the hospital. And when I […]
April 3, 2017
Other News
Psychiatrist Shortage Means Long Waits
ALLENTOWN,Pa. — Sue Drabic of Allentown knew right away something was wrong with a family member, a college student at the time. “He was having delusional statements, like talking about saving the world,” she said, recalling the episode. “He was saying it in a way that you could tell he was serious about it.” All […]
April 3, 2017
Disparities
Indiana Enlists Barbers in Health Initiative
JEFFERSONVILLE, Ind. — A southern Indiana health campaign is enlisting black-owned barbershops in a push to bring free health screenings and information on common diseases to black men. The seventh annual Black Barbershop Initiative kicked off March 31 at Community Action of Southern Indiana in Jeffersonville with free health screenings, door prizes and health information. […]
April 3, 2017
African-American
Refocusing the White Lens
Given the world events that have occurred over the last few centuries and especially during the last few months, I am asking you all to devote more time to not only researching rural America but actually doing anti-racist work there.
April 3, 2017
Other News
Abu-Jamal to Get Hep C Drug
HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania prison officials say they will soon begin giving expensive new medication to former death-row inmate Mumia Abu-Jamal to treat his hepatitis C infection. The Department of Corrections told a federal judge Friday that Abu-Jamal will be treated with an antiviral medication that can cost $50,000 to $60,000 per patient. Treatment will […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Price Bought Drug Stock, Aided Firm
On the same day the stockbroker for then-Georgia Congressman Tom Price bought him up to $90,000 of stock in six pharmaceutical companies last year, Price arranged to call a top U.S. health official, seeking to scuttle a controversial rule that could have hurt the firms’ profits and driven down their share prices, records obtained by […]
April 3, 2017
Policies
Healthcare Plan, Patients in Limbo
Under the crisp midday sun in the hills of rural West Virginia, the Myers family pile out of their tired, red pick-up truck in the car park of the Cabin Creek Health Centre. “A couple of them had the flu and this one had an allergic reaction and we can’t figure out what it is […]
April 3, 2017
Disparities
Opioid Epidemic Exposes Racial Disparities
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The circle of patients gathered for group therapy at a doctor’s family practice in McKenzie could well represent the face of the state’s opioid epidemic. They were in a small city in a rural county, fertile ground for prescription drug addiction, though they traveled from as far as Nashville and Missouri. They […]
April 3, 2017
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Learning Diversity
April is “Celebrate Diversity” Month. It has been observed since 2005, when two diversity companies, the Minneapolis-based ProGroup, Inc. and the Washington, D.C.-based Diversity Best Practices, created a proclamation for the observance. It is a time to recognize and understand our differences — by gender, race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity, ability and other factors — while honoring our common humanity.
April 3, 2017
Other News
N.J. Bills Seek Tax Credit for Organ Donors
TRENTON, N.J. — A New Jersey lawmaker wants to offer tax credits to organ donors, but his no-strings approach is meeting opposition from groups who believe the practice runs afoul of federal law. While the National Organ Transplant Act makes it illegal for hospitals to pay for organs, 19 states provide either a tax credit […]
April 2, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Guillermo: Halted or Not, Travel Ban Already Impacting Higher Ed
Even while both of Donald Trump’s executive orders banning travel from six Muslim-majority nations have been stalled by federal district courts, the fear of a travel ban is already creating negative impacts for schools, according to a new friend of the court brief filed by 31 universities on Friday.
April 2, 2017
African-American
A Book Against Corporal Punishment of African-American Children
In Spare the Kids, Dr. Stacey Patton takes on the issue of corporal punishment and how it harms African-American children.
April 2, 2017
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