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University Recovers Money It Paid To Doctor After His Death

FARMINGTON, Conn. — The University of Connecticut says it has recovered more than $50,000 it paid to a slain researcher while it believed he was working from home. Dr. Pierluigi Bigazzi was a professor of laboratory science and pathology at UConn Health whose body was discovered in February wrapped in plastic inside the house he […]

March 29, 2018

Legacy of Black Scholar-Activist is Topic of Forum, New Book

Colleagues and friends discussed the legacy of scholar and civil rights activist Dr. Ronald Walters in a forum this week in connection with the recent publication of a new book about his life by Dr. Robert C. Smith.

March 29, 2018

UN-Inspired Campus Project Challenges Bias, Promotes Social Justice

Appalachian State University students are participating in a campus-wide Global Peacebuilding Project, a competition inspired by a United Nations contest in which students create social justice initiatives meant to challenge discrimination.

March 29, 2018

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“You Don’t Look Like a Professor”

Routinely experiencing gendered-raced microaggressions in institutions of higher education is nothing new to women of color. How do we contest such incidents? My remedy is “micro-affirmations.”

March 29, 2018

The Case For Education

In The Case Against Education, Dr. Bryan Caplan, a professor of economics at George Mason University and a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center, pushes all the buttons sure to infuriate those on the left and the right.

March 29, 2018

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Women’s History Month: Honoring Women in Combat

Women’s History Month, celebrated in March, highlights the important contributions of women to our nation, both historically and in today’s society. Women like Deborah Sampson, the first American women to serve in combat, have played vital roles in our Army since the Revolutionary War. Sampson disguised herself as a man to enlist in the Continental […]

March 29, 2018

Womens History Month

College 101: Online Learning

We live our entire lives online these days: Americans spend an average of 24 hours a week online. So, why shouldn’t we learn online, too? There’s no reason at all why we shouldn’t, actually, because learning online, and even earning degrees via the web, is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in 2018. That’s not to […]

March 29, 2018

Syracuse Online Law Program

Fort Bragg, U.S.O. Team Up to Help Departing Troops

Fort Bragg and one of its nonprofit partners are teaming up to help service members launch new careers. The installation’s Soldier for Life – Transition Assistance Program and the USO of North Carolina will host a free transition expo and hiring fair next month. The event will take place April 24-26 and include panel discussions, […]

March 29, 2018

Veteran Suicide at V.A. Medical Center

St. Louis police reported Monday that a veteran suicide occurred in the waiting room of John Cochran VA Medical Center. Authorities in VA informed the public that a veteran killed himself in the waiting room at 4:19 AM Monday. He was 62 years old. “We are grieved to confirm that a Veteran was found deceased in our […]

March 29, 2018

Report: New York For-Profit Schools Fall Short

New York’s for-profit colleges leave students with huge debt and have little impact on earning potential, according to a new report published by The Century Foundation. The foundation, a New York City-based public policy think tank, compared student outcomes at 427 colleges and universities, including 112 public, 196 nonprofit and 119 for-profit institutions. The report, […]

March 29, 2018

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College Partnership to Ease Transfer for Veterans, Military

Daemen College and SUNY Erie Community College have formed a new educational partnership. The partnership is designed to provide student veterans and military aligned students a seamless transition from earning a SUNY Erie associate’s degree to completing a bachelor’s degree at Daemen. Officials from both colleges signed the agreement for the dual admission program on […]

March 29, 2018

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Transgender Students Adjusts Career Goals After Ban

Most transgender individuals will not be allowed to serve in the United States military now, according to a memo issued by President Donald Trump Friday, March 23. The decision ends a nearly three-month period starting on the first of January during which the president’s earlier commands to bar transgender service members were put on hold. Transgender is […]

March 29, 2018

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None of Schools Reviewed Met Tuition Rules, DOD Finds

Every single college that the Department of Defense examined last year, as part of a new tuition assistance review process, was found in violation of DoD rules ― but schools won’t be punished just yet. Marketing materials that included pictures of service members in uniform, as well as difficult-to-find tuition information, were among the more common […]

March 29, 2018

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Refusing To Call a Terrorist a Terrorist

When serial bomber Mark Anthony Conditt blew himself up as police officers closed in on him, most if not all residents of Austin, Texas breathed a sigh of relief. But nobody in mainstream media seemed willing to call him a terrorist.

March 28, 2018

Stellar Academic and Business Leader Tapped to Lead Whittier College

Dr. Linda Oubré will become Whittier College’s 15th president, taking office July 1, 2018, college officials announced this week. She will be the first person of color to serve as president in Whittier’s 131-year history.

March 28, 2018

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USC Application Surge Lowers Acceptance To 13 Percent

An unprecedented surge in applications has made 2018 a historic year for University of Southern California admissions with a record 64,000 applications for the fall 2018 freshman class.

March 28, 2018

Six Howard Workers Fired After Nine-Year Financial Scandal

Howard University fired six employees last year after an internal investigation found that several university employees misappropriated university-based funds between 2007 and 2016. The money was supposed to help students who needed financial assistance to stay in school.

March 28, 2018

Students at NY’s Hofstra Want Jefferson Statue Removed

HEMPSTEAD, N.Y. — Some students at New York’s Hofstra University want a Thomas Jefferson statue removed because Jefferson was a slave owner who believed Black people were inherently inferior to Whites. Student Ja’loni Owens started a Change.org petition demanding that administrators of the university on Long Island remove the statue and “no longer display it […]

March 28, 2018