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Academics
Army Futures Command, Vanderbilt Ink Partnership to Encourage Innovation, Education For Both
Army Futures Command and Vanderbilt University signed an agreement April 9 that links creative, innovative soldiers with top-tier Vanderbilt University experts so that ideas quickly can become useful products. Leaders from the two groups say this five-year education partnership agreement is a potential model for military-academic collaboration across the nation, not only on research and […]
April 12, 2019
Academics
Political Battle in Albany Over Free College Education For Military Families
The chance for family members, of those who die in active duty, to go to college for free in New York State might not become a reality. A bill offering free tuition, room and board at SUNY and CUNY Schools was snuffed out in a state assembly committee. The assembly higher education committee voted to […]
April 12, 2019
Policy
Trump’s Controversial Transgender Military Policy Goes Into Effect
Three years after the Obama administration told transgender individuals they could serve openly and have access to gender-affirming medical and psychological care, the Trump administration has reversed course. The Pentagon on Friday began to implement a controversial new policy that critics say is essentially a “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy for trans service members. “The […]
April 12, 2019
Latest News
Survey Explores Faculty Behaviors, Perceptions in Teaching, Research and Publishing Practices
Faculty attitudes are beginning to shift around the use of open educational resources (OER), scholarly search engines such as Google Scholar and cloud-based data storage services, even though there is some divergence between their attitudes and actual behaviors in some areas. Those are a few findings from a recently released Ithaka S+R survey of nearly 11,000 faculty members at four-year institutions across the U.S.
April 12, 2019
News Roundup
Aspen Institute Names 40 Emerging Community College Leaders to 2019-20 Aspen Presidential Fellowship
The Aspen Institute’s College Excellence Program has named 40 emerging community college leaders to the 2019-20 class of the Aspen Presidential Fellowship for Community College Excellence. The fellowship is a leadership program focused on preparing the next generation of community college presidents to advance institutions to accomplish higher and more equitable levels of student success. […]
April 12, 2019
Students
RISE Conference Engages Hot Education Topics
Hot education topics ranging from workforce relevance and measuring student outcomes to school choice and postsecondary access and affordability highlighted the second annual Reagan Institute Summit on Education (RISE) conference Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Building & International Trade Center.
April 11, 2019
Opinion
We Gon’ Be Alright: American Education Research Solidarity and the Counterspace Pachanga/Party
Considering race continues to be a topic of controversy and discomfort, it is important that we address how engagement and inclusion have expanded on the issues of identity for Blacks and Latino communities.
April 11, 2019
Faculty & Staff
Survey: Full-Time Faculty Salaries Barely Above Inflation For Third Year in a Row
For the 2018-19 academic year, salaries for full-time faculty members at U.S. colleges and universities, on average, are 2 percent higher than they were in the 2017-18 academic year — just 0.01 percent above the inflation rate for the academic year after being adjusted.
April 11, 2019
Students
ACT to Provide Complementary Breakfast to Test-Takers in Florida, Texas
The ACT has announced that it will provide free breakfast to thousands of ACT test-takers at 11 test centers in Florida and two in Texas on April 13, kick launching the next step in the organization’s long-term plan to certify that hunger does not affect students taking the test. This action will affect about 1,000 […]
April 11, 2019
News Roundup
Dr. Belle Wheelan Reiterates Merits of Accreditation System During Senate Hearing
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools’ Commission on Colleges (SACSCOC) president Dr. Belle S. Wheelan recently testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions about the merits of the age-old regional accreditation system in advocating for institutional quality and improvement. During her testimony, Wheelan detailed the accreditation process and outlined standards […]
April 11, 2019
News Roundup
Dr. Stephanie T. Dance-Barnes Named Recipient of Teaching Excellence Award
Winston-Salem State University associate professor Dr. Stephanie T. Dance-Barnes has been named the recipient of the 2019 UNC System Board of Governors Award for Excellence in Teaching. Dance-Barnes teaches courses on cell and molecular biology and also serves as co-chair of the school’s Department of Biological Sciences. The award will be presented by a Board […]
April 11, 2019
News Roundup
Dr. Sumun L. Pendakur to Deliver Address at University of Michigan-Flint Commencement Speaker
Dr. Sumun L. Pendakur, chief learning officer and director of the Equity Institutes within the USC Race and Equity Center, will be the University of Michigan-Flint campus’ commencement speaker during its 2019 spring graduation ceremony. “It’s a tremendous honor to serve as commencement speaker for the University of Michigan-Flint,” said Pendakur, whose work focuses on […]
April 11, 2019
Home
Conference Dissects White Supremacists from Nazis to Now
Anti-Semitism and racism are contemporary as well as historical, and everyone from academics and religious leaders to the public and police should stand against the White supremacy that fuels them, speakers said Wednesday at a Georgetown University conference at the National Press Club.
April 11, 2019
Latest News
Report Evaluates How States Allocate Funding For Higher Ed After 2008 Great Recession
Since the 2008 Great Recession, state funding for higher education across the country has only halfway recovered, according to findings from the 2018 State Higher Education Report recently released by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association (SHEEO).
April 9, 2019
Latest News
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Invests $6.9M to Replicate Meyerhoff Scholars Program at UC Berkeley, UC San Diego
Due to a newly announced $6.9 million investment from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI), the University of California at Berkeley and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) will enhance their efforts to successfully recruit, retain and graduate more underrepresented students in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
April 9, 2019
HBCUs
Michigan Grad School Initiative Promotes Relationships with MSIs
Eight new grants will help faculty and academic departments across the University of Michigan enhance relationships with partner colleges and universities through the school’s fledgling Minority Serving Institutions Office.
April 9, 2019
News Roundup
Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center to No Longer Use Race as Factor in Medical School Admissions
Officials from the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center have announced the center will stop looking at race when reviewing student applications to its medical school. The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has ongoing investigations into the use of race in admissions practices at Yale and Harvard universities, which question whether Asian American applicants […]
April 9, 2019
Students
An A+ Punishment for Felicity And Others: Create Cy Pres Awards. For Real.
Those pleading guilty in the college admissions scandal can donate large sums of money to a cy pres fund that benefits low-income kids and the non-elite small colleges that serve them.
April 9, 2019
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