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Veterans
Connecticut Veteran Wins Upgrade to Discharge Status
Connecticut veterans’ leader and decorated soldier Stephen Kennedy has won his eight-year battle to have his Army discharge status upgraded to honorable. Kennedy, of Fairfield, president of the Connecticut branch of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA-CT), will continue his federal class action lawsuit on behalf of Army veterans nationwide who received less than […]
April 3, 2018
Veterans
Ousted VA Chief Says Appointees Did Him In
David Shulkin, removed days ago as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, said political appointees engineered his ouster as they push for “more aggressive” changes to how the sprawling department is run. “I did not resign,” Shulkin said on Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union.” In a separate interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” he said […]
April 3, 2018
Other News
Senators Slam For-Profit Bridgepoint
In 2011, now-retired United States Senator Tom Harkin called San Diego’s controversial for-profit Bridgepoint Education “an absolute scam.” This month, two senators have whacked the company’s major operation, Ashford University,  with similar — but more polite — biting criticism, to wit: Ashford is guilty of “predatory practices,” the senators said in a March 15 letter […]
April 3, 2018
Other News
Council That Oversaw For-Profits Wants a Comeback
The organization at the center of one of the largest fraud scandals in the history of for-profit colleges is planning a comeback. The Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools was stripped of its powers in December 2016 amid the collapse of two for-profit university chains, where tens of thousands of students were encouraged to […]
April 3, 2018
Home
Journalism Program Explores Black Students’ Experiences
The Nation recently launched a student journalism program that provides training and mentoring opportunities for Black student journalists while giving them a platform to document the lived experiences of Black students on campus.
April 2, 2018
Students
NUL: Higher Ed Act Renewal Must Address Barriers to Underserved Students
As Congress prepares for reauthorization of the Higher Education Act of 1965, the National Urban League says issues of access, affordability, completion and accountability for underrepresented students should be addressed.
April 2, 2018
Opinion
Public Outreach in an Anti-Knowledge Moment
We live in a time in which knowledge has been devalued. Ahistoricism is a central tenet of the current administration, and research-based evidence in both the social and natural sciences is regularly disregarded.
April 2, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
Asian-American Scholars Honor SFSU’s Pioneering Ethnic Studies
The Association of Asian American Studies celebrated a major diversity milestone at its national conference, 50 years after a student strike at San Francisco State University birthed ethnic studies as a model for the nation.
April 2, 2018
Home
Saluting the 2018 Arthur Ashe Jr. Sports Scholars
Remembering Arthur Ashe Jr. on the 25th anniversary of his death.
April 2, 2018
News Roundup
Indiana University Team Recording Shipwreck Sites
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. – An Indiana University team is working to preserve and document shipwreck sites in the Florida Keys. The group from the university’s Center for Underwater Science will visit the site of a Spanish treasure fleet shipwreck from the 1700s this summer. The school has an agreement with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, […]
April 2, 2018
News Roundup
Anti-Apartheid Activist Winnie Madikizela-Mandela Dies at 81
JOHANNESBURG — Nelson Mandela’s ex-wife Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, an anti-apartheid activist in her own right whose reputation was sullied by scandal, has died. She was 81. The woman many South Africans have described as the “Mother of the Nation” and a champion of the black majority died “surrounded by her family and loved ones,” according to […]
April 2, 2018
News Roundup
Couple Donates Inuit Art, Money to University of Michigan
ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Two longtime University of Michigan donors have given their collection of Inuit art and $2 million to the school to create a program to support related exhibitions, education and outreach. The Ann Arbor university announced that Philip and Kathy Power have donated the collection of roughly 200 Inuit stone sculptures and prints […]
April 2, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
No Experience
You can’t make this stuff up: President Trump has announced he will nominate a medical doctor who has no discernible management experience to run the second-largest agency in the federal government. Can presidents be sued for malpractice? The man Trump has named to become secretary of veterans affairs, Dr. Ronny Jackson, happens to be the […]
April 2, 2018
Disparities
Health Care for Reservation Inmates Raises Concern
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — At a tribal jail in Washington state, an inmate with a broken leg banged on his cell door, screaming for pain medication, only to be denied. Hundreds of miles away, a diabetic man jailed on the Wind River Indian Reservation in Wyoming needed insulin, yet government records say authorities were unable to […]
April 2, 2018
Policies
Sewage Leaks Plague Elite Washington Hospital
“A black, grainy foul-smelling substance” coated the floor of an operating room at the MedStar Washington Hospital Center, which also suffered from at least one “active leak” of sewage, according to a review by the District of Columbia health department last August. That health department report was cited in a lawsuit filed against the hospital by the […]
April 2, 2018
Policies
Soda Industry Fighting Back on Local Taxes
Watch out public health advocates – as soda tax campaigns are bubbling up in cities across the nation to combat obesity, diabetes and other serious health conditions – the beverage industry is working to choke off this expression of local democracy. A state bill banning localities from taxing food and beverages came out of nowhere in Michigan […]
April 2, 2018
Policies
States Need More Rules to Protect Insurance Market
Without more rules in place, state regulators won’t be able to fully protect the individual health insurance market from adverse selection when the individual mandate penalty ends in 2019 and if the Trump administration expands association health plans (AHPs) and short-term catastrophic plans, according to a new Commonwealth Fund report. States can “ensure a level playing […]
April 2, 2018
Disparities
Report: Minority Women Undertreated for Perinatal Depression
In a new position paper, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Northwestern University urge federal policymakers to appropriate funds toward diagnosis and treatment of perinatal depression in minority women — a group they say has been lacking in such care. Such a move would include increasing the number of medical providers who are trained […]
April 2, 2018
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