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Veterans
Arkansas Nonprofit Promotes Camaraderie among Veterans
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — On Feb. 8, General William Darby will turn 106. Born in Fort Smith in 1911, William Orlando Darby formed the first Army Ranger battalion during World War II. Known as “Darby’s Rangers,” it would evolve into the modern special forces group of U.S. Army Rangers. Darby’s Warrior Support is a Searcy-based, […]
February 7, 2017
Veterans
St. Bonaventure Unveils Veterans Center
ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University has a new tool to recruit military veterans to campus — and help them succeed once they enroll. University officials hosted a grand opening Thursday for the new Student Veterans Center, a 24/7 social and academic lounge with two full-time staff members to assist veteran students with their education […]
February 7, 2017
Academics
Edinboro Students Pursue Pilot Licenses
EDINBORO, Pa. — Classrooms for Edinboro University of Pennsylvania student Brandon Morton include cockpits and a flight simulator. Morton, 19, of Guys Mills, is one of the first students in the university’s aeronautical science program launched this past fall. The two-year program includes traditional classes at Edinboro’s Porreco College and flight and flight-related instruction at […]
February 7, 2017
Veterans
Milwaukee Vets Struggle to Get Credits
UW-Milwaukee student Samuel Rogers served eight years in the U.S. Army, mainly working as an interrogator. During that time, he took 15 months of courses in Army schools, including a six-month intensive course in human intelligence collection. Despite submitting a Joint Services Transcript (JST) that recommended Rogers receive more than 50 credits, UW-Milwaukee has only […]
February 7, 2017
Students
Penn Center Aims to Boost Hispanic Faculty Pipeline
Many colleges and universities across the United States have committed to recruiting more faculty of color. In some cases, they are facing pressure from students to do so. Recent student protests at institutions like the University of Missouri centered around the dearth of faculty of color on campus, among other issues. Yet, despite intentional efforts […]
February 6, 2017
Students
Report Links ‘Disadvantaged’ Students, Quality Schools to Higher Loan Repayment Rate
Authors of a new study say that low-income or “disadvantaged students — and taxpayer money that is used to support them — should be steered away from low-quality institutions and toward institutions that have high “economic mobility” to put the student in better position to pay back their student loans.
February 6, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Congressman to Invite All HBCU Presidents to Capitol Hill
Dozens of presidents of the nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are expected to converge later this month upon the nation’s capital as guests of a Republican House leader who hopes the gathering will help introduce the institutions to his colleagues who have no idea of their history.
February 6, 2017
Students
Disabled Student Fires Back Against North Dakota University
FARGO, N.D. — A student with cerebral palsy has filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights after she was denied admission into the pharmacy program at North Dakota State University. Kelli Sem was given conditional acceptance into the program last spring, provided she could meet physical requirements under newly […]
February 6, 2017
Students
Free Tuition? Not the Same as Free College, Students Say
BUFFALO, N.Y. — They don’t mean to sound ungrateful, but … New York public college students who would stand to gain from the nation’s most ambitious free-tuition proposal are quick to point out a sobering reality from their own meager finances: Free tuition doesn’t mean free college. Take Brooklyn College senior Florencia Salinas, who despite […]
February 6, 2017
Students
Lourdes University to Add Video Gaming to Athletic Offerings
SYLVANIA, Ohio — A private liberal arts university in northwest Ohio is adding competitive video gaming to its athletic programs, joining an association of about 30 other schools across the country that offer so-called eSports. Lourdes University President Mary Ann Gawelek has been advocating for an eSports program at the Sylvania school since she assumed […]
February 6, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Bill Seeks to End Tenure System in Missouri
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker who is proposing eliminating tenure for professors at all of the state’s two- and four-year public colleges and universities says tenure is an outdated system that is no longer needed to protect teachers from being unjustly fired. Rep. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, said eliminating tenure would save […]
February 6, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Another Casualty of Ban: Medical Training and Rural Healthcare
The chaos among immigrant families and at airports wreaked nationwide by President Trump’s executive order barring nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States has been well documented. Not as well understood are the effects his order will have on U.S. medical training and healthcare, especially in poor and rural neighborhoods. Ahmad Masri […]
February 6, 2017
Disparities
Grant Awarded for Coal Communities
HUNTINGTON, W.Va. — A health professor and researcher at Marshall University has received a $1.3 million federal grant to continue health care work in areas affected by coal in West Virginia, Kentucky and Ohio. The university said the recipient is Richard D. Crespo of the Department of Family and Community Health at the medical school. […]
February 6, 2017
Other News
Trump’s VA Pick Pledges to Save Agency
WASHINGTON — Physician David Shulkin is headed toward likely confirmation as President Donald Trump’s veterans affairs secretary after offering repeated assurances to sometimes skeptical senators that he will work quickly to meet the medical care needs of millions of veterans without dismantling the beleaguered department. At his confirmation hearing, Shulkin, the top health official at […]
February 6, 2017
Other News
Weed 101: Colorado Shares Agricultural Expertise
DENVER — North Carolina wants to know if marijuana could one day replace tobacco as a cash crop. Louisiana is wondering how pot holds up in high humidity. Washington state has questions about water supplies for weed. Colorado agriculture officials had answers for them all as they briefed officials from about a dozen states — […]
February 6, 2017
Policies
3 Charts: How Trump’s Ban Threatens Healthcare
Over the past few days, our inboxes have been flooded with letters from doctors and medical researchers whose lives have been shaken up by President Donald Trump’s executive order, which, among other things, restricts immigrants and visa holders from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the US. We’ve heard from foreign-born health care workers who are […]
February 6, 2017
Policies
What We Need to Know About Court Nominee
President Donald Trump nominated Neil Gorsuch, PhD, a judge in the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado, to fill the seat of late Justice Antonin Scalia. Here are four things to know about President Trump’s pick and his views on healthcare. 1. Judge Gorsuch, if confirmed, is expected to restore a slightly conservative lean […]
February 6, 2017
Policies
Hiring Freeze Could Affect Indian Care
After a temporary federal hiring freeze, concerns have arisen over filling jobs at long-understaffed Native American health care facilities, although an official exemption for some hiring could be on the way. “Any freeze in hiring for Indian initiatives, whether temporary or permanent, threatens to make the challenges facing Indian Country worse,” Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., […]
February 6, 2017
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