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Tuition rises for some students at military junior college
ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) — Tuition is going up for international students at a military junior college in Roswell. The Roswell Daily Record reports that the New Mexico Military Institute’s Board of Regents approved the 3 percent tuition hike last week. The $367 increase applies to all international students, except those from Canada and Mexico, for […]
December 20, 2018
Veterans
Peer sponsors help veteran students succeed at Ohio State
After a six-year career in the Air Force, Hannah Rodas was looking to begin the next step in her life and it started in higher education. “When I was originally looking into school after getting out of the military, I didn’t anticipate going to Ohio State,” Rodas said. “I’m from Michigan to begin with. It […]
December 20, 2018
Funding
Miller awarded grant to study military strategic culture in India
Manjari Chatterjee Miller, Associate Professor of International Relations at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University, is part of a collaboration (with Assistant Professor Rohan Mukherjee of Yale-NUS College, Singapore) that received an Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1 Grant from the Ministry of Education in Singapore to study military strategic […]
December 20, 2018
Academics
Director of military and veteran services out at UT
The University of Toledo has decided to part ways with Haraz Ghanbari, director of military and veteran affairs. “They simply said, ‘We appreciate your service and they would like to move in a different direction,’” Mr. Ghanbari said. “It was not for cause.” Mr. Ghanbari was an at-will employee, meaning the university could terminate him […]
December 20, 2018
News Roundup
Mount Holyoke College Proposed Logo Stirs Controversy
Mount Holyoke College, located in South Hadley, Massachusetts, recently rejected a suggested logo designed by a company the school hired after it stirred controversy on campus. The college was working with a graphic design company to create a new logo that can effectively represent its identity as a gender-diverse women’s college, according to NBC/CW+-affiliate station WWLP22. The […]
December 20, 2018
News Roundup
Oklahoma State to Push Back Faculty, Staff Pay Raise Due to Budget Decrease
Oklahoma State University (OSU) officials announced that it will delay the 2.5 percent performance-based pay raise to its faculty and staff originally scheduled to begin on Jan. 1. They cite a budget loss as a result of a drop in student enrollment. The university saw an almost 2 percent drop in enrollment this past school […]
December 20, 2018
Opinion
‘Please Call Me Dr.’
For the past three years I have had students who were “offended” or “insulted” because I have made it a point for them to call me Dr. Garcia.
December 20, 2018
Community Colleges
Reverse-Transfer Policies May Particularly Help Underrepresented Groups
While facing logistical challenges, reverse credit transfer is becoming a more common practice nationwide as a way of getting an associate’s degree or certificate for students who had gone on to take courses in a baccalaureate program that could be applied to retroactively award them a community college credential.
December 19, 2018
Students
American Talent Initiative Makes Strides in Improving Opportunities for Lower-Income Students
A nationwide alliance of high-graduation-rate colleges and universities has made significant progress in improving opportunities for low- and moderate-income students, according to a new report by the American Talent Initiative (ATI).
December 19, 2018
Students
Report Highlights MSIs as ‘Underutilized Resource’ for Strengthening STEM Workforce
Providing early research experiences and creating supportive campus environments are among the promising and intentional strategies outlined in a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine focused on the impact and role of minority-serving institutions (MSIs) in producing graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).
December 19, 2018
Disparities
College students can gain rural health experience with summer programs
The National Center for Rural Health Professions at the UIC Health Sciences Campus in Rockford offers three summer opportunities for health professions students interested in gaining experience in rural health care. The six-week “Rural Interprofessional Preceptorship Program: the Preceptorship” program is a full-time, paid opportunity set in two rural communities in Illinois: Gibson City and […]
December 19, 2018
Disparities
A New Way To Get College Students Through A Psychiatric Crisis — And Back To School
Sometimes a psychiatric crisis can be triggered by something small. For Alexia Phillips, 21, it was a heated argument with a close family member in February 2017. She remembers the fight blew up before she left the house to go to classes at Queens College in Flushing, New York. By midday, Phillips, then a sophomore, […]
December 19, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
OPINION: Pension bills cut benefits, will have minimal impact on system health
The two pension bills introduced last night in the hastily-called special session (House Bill 1 and House Bill 2) include many of the benefit cuts that target future and current teachers and employees included in Senate Bill 151, the sewage bill. The bills do not include an actuarial analysis as required by law. But given […]
December 19, 2018
Disparities
Report claims Penn, Princeton, and other Ivy League colleges discriminate against students with mental illness
A new report from a disability-inclusion foundation has blasted Ivy League schools, including the University of Pennsylvania and Princeton University, for discriminating against students with mental illness. It claims the colleges are forcing students to leave campus against their will and without medical justification to protect the schools from legal liability and bad press. The […]
December 19, 2018
Disparities
UNLV grad overcomes acute adversity, highlights winter commencement
On Tuesday evening, a sea of red graduation gowns flooded the Thomas & Mack Center for UNLV’s the 55th Winter Commencement. Families and friends sat above the graduates, weighed down with flowers, gifts and leis ready to cheer on their loved ones who waited eagerly for their names to be called and the degree they […]
December 19, 2018
Other News
Gains in HIV Prevention Unequal Among Black Women
Fewer black women are being diagnosed with HIV, but new research finds the gains are not equally distributed among all black women. Hanna Demeke, RN, PhD, the lead author of the study, said while the overall news for black women is good when it comes to HIV, foreign-born black women aren’t benefiting from HIV prevention […]
December 19, 2018
Other News
Health care to be top issue in 2020 after Texas judge strikes down Affordable Care Act
Legal appeals of a Texas judge’s ruling invalidating the Affordable Care Act will push health care to the forefront of the 2020 election, sharpening a debate that helped Democrats win congressional seats in Texas and across the country in November. Although President Donald Trump declared victory after Friday’s court decision, Democrats see a wider opening […]
December 19, 2018
News Roundup
Miami Dade College to Create College Credit Certificate in Digital Marketing with Facebook Partnership
Miami Dade College (MDC) will become the first higher education institution in Florida to collaborate with Facebook to create a specific curriculum to train its students, entrepreneurs, small business owners and others working in digital marketing. With this collaboration, Miami Dade and Facebook will create a College Credit Certificate that extends the college’s current Digital […]
December 19, 2018
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