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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
News Roundup
Roland G. Fryer Jr. Resigns from AEA Executive Committee Amid Harassment Allegations
The American Economic Association (AEA) has announced that Dr. Roland G. Fryer Jr., an economics professor at Harvard University who is currently being investigated for three separate sexual harassment allegations, has resigned from its Executive Committee. Fryer was elected to the 2019 Committee in October. In addition to allegations of sexual harassment, Fryer is also being investigated by […]
December 19, 2018
News Roundup
AERA Criticizes School Safety Commission’s Recommendation to Repeal 2014 Counsel
The American Educational Research Association (AERA) has released a statement in response to the Federal Commission on School Safety’s recommendation to revoke a 2014 federal counsel asking schools to discuss racial disparities in schools. The commission’s recommendation disregards the evidence that minorities are disciplined more often and more harshly than is justified by their behavior […]
December 19, 2018
Students
Winners of 2018 Cooke Graduate Scholarship and International Award Announced
The Jack Kent Cooke Foundation (JKCF) recently announced that 82 students who have started their graduate education at elite institutions in the U.K. and the U.S. were named recipients of the 2018 Cooke Graduate Scholarship and Cooke International Awards. The non-profit foundation has a history of supporting students who need financial assistance to help pay […]
December 19, 2018
Students
Lumina Foundation Grant Aimed at Strengthening Student Success
The Lumina Foundation has made a grant to Workcred, an associate of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) to collaborate with the Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) and the University Professional and Continuing Education Association (UPCEA) to strengthen student success and career outcomes. Workcred, APLU and UPCEA will brainstorm and determine how colleges […]
December 19, 2018
Academics
MCCC nursing students brighten the holidays for military families
For the seventh year, Montgomery County Community College’s Student Nursing Club has participated in the national Trees for Troops initiative, providing 170 Christmas trees for military families to make their holidays brighter and happier. Each year, nursing students hold fundraisers to purchase the trees at a discounted price. This year, the students raised $600 by […]
December 18, 2018
Academics
University recognized for student veteran services, treatment
OXFORD, Miss. – The University of Mississippi has been recognized as a top institution for military veteran students for 2019 by both Military Times and College Factual. Military Times ranked Ole Miss among the leaders in student veteran treatment in its annual rankings, with the university coming in at No. 85 nationally among all […]
December 18, 2018
Academics
Royal Military College cadet charged with sexual assault
An officer-cadet at the Royal Military College has been charged with sexual assault. On Dec. 12, The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service charged Tyler Johnston, a cadet at the college, with sexual assault of another cadet. Johnston’s age was not released but a spokesperson for the college said he began his training at the college […]
December 18, 2018
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