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University Overrules Staff Vote to Revoke Trump’s Degree

BETHLEHEM, Pa. — Lehigh University’s board of trustees will not revoke President Donald Trump’s honorary degree after nearly two-thirds of the school’s faculty voted to do so. The board issued a statement Friday saying it is committed to demonstrating openness to a wide range of views. A school committee announced Tuesday that about 300 faculty […]

March 4, 2018

Iowa Police Investigate Stabbing Death of College Basketball Player

OSKALOOSA, iowa — Police in southeastern Iowa are investigating the stabbing death of a college basketball player from the Chicago area. Des Moines television station KCCI reports that William Penn University student Marquis Todd died late Thursday. Todd attended TF North in Calumet City. The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation says Oskaloosa police were called […]

March 4, 2018

Pathways Program Seeks to Diversify the Academy

PHILADELPHIA – After graduating from college in 2002, Johanna Lopez spent a decade working in the banking industry before enrolling in community college. Now, she’s a fellow in a program created to increase the number of Latino professors working in the humanities at colleges and universities across the nation.

March 4, 2018

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Honoring Black History Month, in Prison

Black History Month is often referred to by my fellow Blackademics as “the high season.” Schools and organizations across the country seek us out for obligatory assemblies and programs. Though the shortest month, February is the most popular time of the year for scholars of color to situate our scholarship within longstanding questions of freedom and justice.

March 4, 2018

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New App Aids Nontraditional and Transfer Students

Leveraging the power of innovative technology, The Common Application has created a new transfer application experience for students who may be returning to school through nontraditional pipelines.

March 4, 2018

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Our Daily Work: Celebrate Black History Throughout Year

Remembering Dr. Martin Luther King, Black history and civil rights shouldn’t be just a middle of January, month of February or April 4 thing. We should remind ourselves that what really matters is the daily work of King, his contemporaries and today’s champions of equality. And we should recognize, commemorate and celebrate Black history daily.

March 4, 2018

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Learning Outcomes

The tried-and-true credit hour is so entrenched in higher education, it’s hard to imagine a system that doesn’t measure students’ academic progress in units of classroom time. Generally speaking, if a student reaches 120 hours, he or she will be walking across the stage to claim a bachelor’s degree. But the conversation around learning outcomes is […]

March 2, 2018

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Soldier Helps Student Veterans

Some students enter college with three main concerns: earning a degree, staying healthy and balancing a social life. Others, such as Raul Santana of Hazleton, add serving our country to that mix. Santana, a senior communications major at Bloomsburg University, serves as a member of the U.S. Army and also is president of the BU […]

March 2, 2018

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Arizona State Offers Certificate to Close Military-Civilian Gaps

A first of its kind 18-credit program aimed at narrowing the military-civilian gap by educating students about American veterans is expected to launch during the upcoming fall semester here, Arizona State University officials announced this week. Enrollment started Thursday for “Veterans, Society and Service,” ASU’s first undergraduate certificate dedicated solely to the study of veterans, military […]

March 2, 2018

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Applicants Need More Data to Choose Colleges

It’s college application season. First-time students, returning students, full-time students, and part-time students are researching which colleges will meet their academic and career interests and best position them for success in the workforce. A quick online search is all it takes to find this information, right? Think again. Online resources like College Scorecard and College Navigator help students learn […]

March 2, 2018

Vets Council Seeks Education Center

Hoping to offer virtual reality and other methods of education that appeal to video-game-playing generations, the Alabama Veterans Museum and Archives in Athens asked the city Monday to pledge $500,000 toward a $1-million cost to build an education center for students. The proposed education center is meant to inspire students to study science, technology, engineering, […]

March 2, 2018

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Harvard Triples Online Offerings

Harvard University continues to demonstrate that online learning and an ivy-league education can go hand-in-hand. As recently reported in The Harvard Crimson, since 2014, Harvard University has tripled its online course offerings and all signs point to continued growth moving forward. According to the dean of the Division of Continuing Education at Harvard University, the Extension […]

March 2, 2018

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Wounded Warrior Troops May Face Separation

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis’ controversial new “deploy or out” policy, which requires troops to become deployable within 12 months or face separation, comes with a built-in exemption for the combat wounded. But in designated “wounded warrior” units maintained by the services, those recovering from combat-related illness and injury form an increasingly small percentage of the total […]

March 2, 2018

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Putin: Russia Has “Invincible” Nukes

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Thursday dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s boasts about developing a new array of nuclear weapons, saying America’s missile defense is ready to protect the nation but is not directed at Russia. Putin claims that Moscow has tested weapons that cannot be intercepted and would make NATO’s missile defense “useless.” That […]

March 2, 2018

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Foundation Offers Recent Graduates $5,000 to Move to Ohio City

Earlier this week, the city council of Hamilton, Ohio unanimously endorsed a plan that will offer a $5,000 “reverse scholarship” to assist with student loan payments for recent college or trade-school graduates willing to move to there.

March 1, 2018

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Minority Journalism Groups Dissolve UNITY Collaborative

Unity: Journalists for Diversity, a professional coalition that helped increase diversity in the news industry beginning in the early 1990’s, has decided to shutter after nearly 30 years. “This is a heart-breaking decision,” Unity president Neal Justice said this week, “but we’ve decided that the best way to move forward is to work with our […]

March 1, 2018

Understanding and Quickly Recovering from Stress

Stress, especially constant stress, is the most underrated source of disease conditions, especially chronic disease. It is underrated because it is so difficult to measure and demonstrate. It is difficult to measure and demonstrate because it occurs so differently per individual and per situation.

March 1, 2018

HBCUs: For Colored Kids When Predominantly White Institutions Aren’t Enough

Cheyney University of Pennsylvania, founded in 1837, is recognized as the nation’s oldest historically Black institution of higher education, or HBCU. Harvard University, founded in 1636, is the U.S.’s oldest institution of higher education.

March 1, 2018