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Native Americans Meet to Discuss Future Pot Business
As cannabis legalization unfurls across the United States, a number of Native American tribes are looking to the plant as an economic boon to help their struggling communities. Last week, tribal leaders from California and Washington state met to discuss allowing their lands to be used for pot businesses. According to USA Today, In attendance […]
October 10, 2017
Disparities
Women of Color, Parenting and Trump
Women of color have historically fought for the right to have children as much as they have fought for access to abortion. They have been policed and marginalized through welfare reform, immigration laws, and racialized myths about their bodies and sexuality. This struggle has often prevented women of color from giving birth under circumstances of […]
October 10, 2017
Disparities
Paramedics Will Vaccinate Homeless for Hepatitis
Paramedics are the newest troops in the fight against San Diego’s ever-growing hepatitis A outbreak. A letter signed this week by the director of the state Emergency Medical Services Authority temporarily expands state laws that govern paramedics, granting them emergency powers to “vaccinate at-risk populations in response to the outbreak.” Read More
October 10, 2017
Other News
Mental Health Concerns Arise After Maria
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Locked out of his home and with nowhere else to go, Wilfredo Ortiz Marrero rode out Hurricane Maria inside a Jeep, which was lifted off its wheels by floodwaters in the parking lot. He then endured days without enough food or running water. The lights are back on at his […]
October 10, 2017
Other News
Obama-Era Officials Launch Sign-Up Campaign
WASHINGTON — Former Obama administration officials say they’re launching a private campaign to encourage people to sign up for coverage next year under the Affordable Care Act. With the start of open enrollment just weeks away on Nov. 1, the Trump administration has slashed “Obamacare’s” ad budget, as well as grants to outside organizations that […]
October 10, 2017
Students
Organizers Offer Chess as Gateway to College
The Cleveland Scholastic Open is distinct among chess tournaments in that organizers go to great lengths to secure scholarships for the winners.
October 9, 2017
Students
Parents Need Charters, Change and Choice
While much progress has been made, the promise of equal access to quality education has not been fully fulfilled.
October 9, 2017
Home
Guillermo: Rethinking Campus Carry Laws After Las Vegas
As we try to understand the motives of Stephen Paddock, the Las Vegas massacre shooter, more than one commentator has brought up the 1966 bell tower shooting incident at the University of Texas.
October 9, 2017
Students
Ortiz Works to Make Underrepresented Feel They Belong
Dr. Elizabeth Ortiz of DePaul University says “imposter syndrome” permeates all levels of the university community that feel marginalized.
October 9, 2017
Students
University of New Mexico’s Chicano Studies Eyes Grad Degrees
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — The University of New Mexico’s Chicana and Chicano Studies Department has submitted a proposal aimed at allowing the program to issue graduate degrees. Department chair Irene Vasquez announced last week that the program turned in a preliminary plan to expand the university’s program that focuses on Mexican-American history and literature. Chicana and […]
October 9, 2017
Faculty & Staff
College of Charleston Gets Nearly $2M for Professorship
CHARLESTON, S.C. — The College of Charleston is getting nearly $2 million for a new professorship. The former chief executive of cybersecurity contractor ISHPI of Mount Pleasant is giving the school $1.9 million for a new faculty position at the school. The school said in a news release that Noah T. Leask’s gift will pay […]
October 9, 2017
Students
Jewish Structure on Kansas State Campus Vandalized, Rebuilt
MANHATTAN, Kan. — Authorities are investigating the vandalism of a temporary dwelling erected outside a Kansas State University residential complex for the Jewish harvest festival Sukkot. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the sukkah was found late Friday wrapped around the car of graduate student Glen Buickerood, damaging the vehicle. Buickerood, who doesn’t identify as Jewish, […]
October 9, 2017
Home
Teaching Journalism the Old Fashioned Way
As the dean of student affairs of the Journalism School at Columbia University, Ernest Sotomayor brings years of professional experience to mentoring the next generation of journalists and helping them adapt to life in New York City. This is no easy task, considering the diverse backgrounds students come from.
October 8, 2017
Sports
Experts Have Low Expectations for Chapel Hill Investigation
The University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the NCAA on Friday delayed the publication of an infraction report, the result of an extensive investigation into academic fraud within athletic programs at the flagship university.
October 8, 2017
Opinion
A Seat at the Table
As soon as Donald Trump was elected President, the tacit comparisons to 1930s Germany began. Many people quoted—via memes—the famous line by Martin Niemöller, a Protestant pastor who spoke out against Adolf Hitler and who paid for it by spending the last seven years of his life in a concentration camp.
October 8, 2017
Latinx
Accelerating Latino Success in Postsecondary Education is Focus for Excelencia
Excelencia convened higher education and nonprofit leaders in Washington, D.C. late last week to celebrate programs and institutions that are doing particularly outstanding work advancing Latino student success at all levels of the educational pathway, from K-12 to graduate school.
October 8, 2017
News Roundup
White Nationalists Impose Deadline For Approval On Ohio Campus Speeches
An attorney for associates of white nationalist leader Richard Spencer said Sunday he’ll sue Ohio State University and the University of Cincinnati if they don’t agree by Friday to make campus space available for Spencer to speak. A Georgia college student, Cameron Padgett, contacted both universities last month about renting space in the latest effort […]
October 8, 2017
News Roundup
Rhode Island College Gets Grant for First Generation Students
Rhode Island College has been awarded a $1.1 million federal grant to prepare students for graduate school who are the first in their families to earn a college degree. The state’s congressional delegation announced the grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The Ronald E. McNair Postbaccalaureate Achievement grant will be distributed over five years […]
October 8, 2017
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