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Report Questions Purdue, Kaplan Online Merger

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — A pending deal that would make Purdue University the new owner of the online, for-profit Kaplan University might have its fate sealed. The Purdue Global deal was in its final stages, but a 61-page report by the Higher Learning Commission lists a number of concerns and questions about how Purdue and […]

February 27, 2018

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Hillary Clinton to Speak at Yale University’s Class Day

Class Day is an annual event at the New Haven, Conn., university that honors achievements in academic, artistic and athletic fields. Past notable speakers include former Secretary of State John Kerry and former Vice President Joe Biden in 2015. In a statement Monday, Class Day co-chair and Yale student Josh Hochman says students should […]

February 27, 2018

Former UN Chief Scheduled to Speak at Boston College

NEWTON, Mass. — Former U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is making an appearance at Boston College. Ban was South Korea’s foreign minister before serving 10 years as U.N. chief. He’s scheduled to speak Tuesday on “human welfare and global citizenship.” Ban told the U.N.Security Council last week that the “current reconciliatory atmosphere” between North Korea and […]

February 27, 2018

Navy Chaplain Candidates Serve God and Country

QUANTICO, Va. – “The candidates were energetic, open-minded, and flexible in regards to how they learned and experience life in the Marine Corps context,” said Chaplain Lt. Brian Burd, Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. The chaplains came from various denominations such as Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Assemblies of God, Roman Catholic Priest and Cooperative Baptist […]

February 27, 2018

Air Force Will Give Squadrons Incentives for Innovation

ORLANDO — During a speech about future innovation here at the Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein announced the service will give every total force squadron thousands of dollars in the next few weeks to preserve the “lethality of the force” but also jumpstart new and rapid […]

February 27, 2018

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Arming Teachers? Those with Military Training Are Scarce

During a speech Friday morning at the Conservative Political Action Conference, President Donald Trump claimed that 10 to 20 percent of American schoolteachers are “very gun-adept people.” He was responding to what he called a “fake news” claim that he wanted to arm schoolteachers — when he really meant he wants to arm teachers who are gun […]

February 27, 2018

Report: Women Need Additional Degree to Attain Equal Pay

Although women have surpassed men in educational attainment, they still earn 81 cents for every dollar earned by men, according to a new study from researchers at Georgetown University.

February 26, 2018

Sister to Sister: Strengthening Connections of Black College Women

It is bad enough that some Black college students who attend predominantly White institutions are made to feel inferior or “less than” during their higher education tenure, as identified by Idealist philosopher Georg Hegel in his analysis of the theory of “othering.”

February 26, 2018

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Nationwide Initiative to Boost Graduation Numbers

With the goal of significantly increasing the number of graduates by the year 2025, the Association of Public & Land-Grant Universities (APLU) has launched an unprecedented nationwide collaborative effort.

February 26, 2018

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Restricting Choice

It’s time—literally—for an out-of-the-box approach to the Trump administration’s plan to help feed our most vulnerable neighbors. In last week’s presidential budget, the administration proposed replacing most Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits with a pre-selected box of mostly dry goods like peanut butter, pasta and cereal. They wanted to stop benefit recipients from choosing […]

February 26, 2018

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Doctor: Focus on Prevention to Address Disparities

Medicine has progressed by leaps and bounds over the past 75 years. Life spans have been extended, advanced cancer treatments and screenings have had a positive effect on cure rates, and drugs and antibiotics have virtually eradicated many diseases that were once deadly. Read More

February 26, 2018

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Indian Health Services Nominee Withdraws

Trump administration’s nominee Robert Weaver withdrew his name Wednesday from consideration to lead the Indian Health Service, which comes after a report that he misrepresented his work experience. “Mr. Weaver is no longer the Administration’s nominee for Director of the Indian Health Service,” a Department of Health and Human Services spokesperson confirmed to CNN. The […]

February 26, 2018

Pushing for Diversity in Nursing

Studying public health as a college student, Dr. Lisa Whitfield-Harris was hesitant to expand her career to higher education, a field that required her to do more public speaking than she was used to. “I knew I wanted to be in nursing,” she says. “I didn’t figure it out until later on in my career […]

February 26, 2018

N.C. Poor Children Suffer Health Disparities

In annual report card on the health of children in North Carolina released last week drew a stark connection to economic insecurity and poor health, giving the state low grades on health issues affecting its poorest residents. The 2018 Child Health Report Card was released Monday by the N.C. Institute of Medicine and NC Child, […]

February 26, 2018

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Helix Bridges Disconnect Between Health Care and Diversity

If it wasn’t for a personal experience with his healthcare provider, Nolan Pokpongkiat might’ve been studying software engineering and his organization, The Helix Group, wouldn’t have been born. Now a sophomore at the University of California, Berkeley, he founded Helix to address the lack of diversity within the healthcare field and encourage underrepresented students to […]

February 26, 2018

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Racism Still A Problem In Healthcare’s C-Suite

Black professionals who hope to reach administrative positions in hospital systems know to keep their mouths shut when it comes to issues of diversity, inclusion and race. Speak out, and they risk being branded angry or difficult, labels that stick once assigned. Better to have a silent seat at the table, than no seat at […]

February 26, 2018

Even for Bezos, Fixing Health Care Is Hard

Every year, health care consumes a larger share of the U.S. economy. Decades of grand efforts to control costs mostly haven’t worked: Health care now accounts for about 18 percent of gross domestic product. Warren Buffett has compared the system to a hungry tapeworm eating away at its corporate and taxpayer hosts. Now he’s trying […]

February 26, 2018

Conservative Speaker Heading to University of Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Conservative speaker Ben Shapiro is heading to the University of Minnesota for another in a series of speeches aimed at spreading conservative ideas on campus. The author and former editor of the conservative site Breitbart News was scheduled to speak at 7 p.m. Monday on the university’s St. Paul campus. The […]

February 26, 2018