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Immigrant Target for Army Discharge Sues for Citizenship

LOS ANGELES — A U.S. Army specialist born in South Korea has sued to demand a response to her American citizenship application after the military moved to discharge her. Yea Ji Sea, a 29-year-old from Gardena, California, who has served four years and is assigned to the duty station at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, filed […]

July 24, 2018

‘Hacking for Defense’ Course Puts Students to Work on Military Issues

Before blossoming into a Silicon Valley startup guru, Steve Blank spent four years as an electronics technician in the Air Force, including a stint working on fighter jets in Thailand at the tail end of the Vietnam War. In the decades since, Blank has founded or worked with eight startup companies in Silicon Valley, including […]

July 24, 2018

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Senate Confirms Wilkie for V.A. Secretary

WASHINGTON – The Senate on Monday confirmed Robert Wilkie to be the next secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Wilkie, previously an undersecretary at the Pentagon, is the fourth VA secretary in five years and has a lot of work ahead of him to modernize the agency and deliver on President Donald Trump’s campaign promises […]

July 24, 2018

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New AKA President Glenda Glover Gives $50K for HBCUs

Dr. Glenda Glover, the new international president of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., (AKA) kicked off her role by donating $50,000 to the sorority’s Educational Advancement Foundation, specifically for historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs). Glover’s donation at the sorority’s recent Boule gathering in Houston was lauded as a commitment to education – a commitment […]

July 23, 2018

New Research Initiative Targets Impact of Prison Education Programs

The Institute for Higher Education Policy has announced a new two-year research initiative in partnership with the University of Iowa Liberal Arts Beyond Bars program and Moreau College Initiative that will focus on higher-education prison programs and their impact on recidivism rates.

July 23, 2018

Positioning Ourselves to Support College Success for Males of Color

If we are serious about improving the educational outcomes of males of color throughout the educational pipeline, then we need to change how we see and think about them, how we imagine, believe in and support their possibilities and how we work with them.

July 23, 2018

UVA Center Hires Trump Ex-Official, Many Faculty Disapprove

Dozens of University of Virginia professors are outraged at the university’s decision to hire a former member of the Trump administration, according to an NBC-29 news report in Charlottesville, Va. Marc Short, a former White House director of legislative affairs who has an MBA from UVA, has been hired as a senior fellow at the […]

July 23, 2018

Don LeDuc Helps to Make Law School More Accessible

Don LeDuc, president of the Western Michigan University’s Cooley Law School, has one piece of advice for students interested in entering the legal profession.

July 23, 2018

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California Teachers Union Has Pay Breakthrough with Foothill-De Anza

In the wake of conflicts over employee salaries which occurred last semester, Foothill-De Anza Community College officials announced a temporary agreement with its largest union over pay raises for the 2018-2019 school year. Members of the union still need to ratify the settlement and the Foothill-De Anza board of trustees still need approve it, however it’s […]

July 23, 2018

Hospitals Closing

By the time Copper Basin Medical Center launched a GoFundMe campaign in May last year, the hospital in the Appalachian foothills was buried in debt. It had been forced to suspend inpatient operations; many of its nurses and staffers had gone weeks without paychecks. The campaign aimed to raise $100,000, but when only $5,559 came in, Copper Basin […]

July 23, 2018

Lawsuit: Police Urged Paramedics to Sedate Minnesota Man

MINNEAPOLIS — An attorney for a Minneapolis man is drawing parallels between his client’s lawsuit and the recent debate over police urging paramedics to sedate unruly people. John Powell, 48, said he suffered breathing problems and needed emergency care after suburban police allegedly asked paramedics to inject him with the powerful sedative ketamine three years […]

July 23, 2018

VA Hospital Plans Mental Health Summit

BECKLEY, W.Va. — A Veterans Affairs hospital in West Virginia is planning a mental health summit to highlight advances in veterans’ care. The Beckley VA Medical Center says the summit is set for Aug. 9. The event will take place at the National Mine Health & Safety Academy from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. VA […]

July 23, 2018

Mental-Health Issues Burden Older Minority Adults

Nearly 20 percent of older adults have one or more mental-health conditions. The mental-health needs of older adults can be especially complex due to co-occurring physical health problems that contribute to a compromised quality of life. Late-life depression is associated with a wide array of adverse consequences, including psychological suffering, impairment in physical functioning, and […]

July 23, 2018

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Legalized Marriage Linked to Increases in Health Coverage for Gay Men

After the legalization of same-sex marriage in the U.S., more gay men reported having health insurance, access to medical care and annual checkups, according to a June 2018 working paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research. The research, conducted by a team of scholars at Vanderbilt University, looks at marriage status and health outcomes for couples […]

July 23, 2018

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Pelosi Pushes for National Health Care Plan

Defending the Affordable Care Act and saying that a Medicare for All program ought to be considered, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi campaigned for Democratic Congresswoman Gwen Moore in Milwaukee Saturday. Pelosi spoke to a group of about 75 people at Independence First, a resource center for people with disabilities located on the city’s south side. Moore was […]

July 23, 2018

Pediatricians Issue Strong Warning on Food Additives’ Risk for Children

A growing mound of scientific evidence has linked these chemicals to changes in children’s hormone systems, which can alter their normal development and increase their risk of childhood obesity, the new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement argues. These chemicals affect the health of all humans, but can have a particularly strong effect in […]

July 23, 2018

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Study: Emergency Room Intervention Cut Veteran Suicides by Half

A new emergency room intervention tested among suicidal military veterans was associated with about half the odds they would engage in suicidal behavior, defined as “any action that could cause a person to die,” in a six-month follow-up period as compared with the usual care, according to a July 2018 paper in JAMA Psychiatry. The high profile suicides of celebrities Kate Spade and Anthony […]

July 23, 2018

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Carrying on Nelson Mandela’s Legacy

Rather than portray Nelson Mandela (Madiba) as the famous leader of South Africa, his grandson, Ndaba Mandela, in his newly published book “Going to the Mountain,” chose to focus more on his role as a grandfather to him, as well as to the rest of the world.

July 20, 2018