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Law Allows Credit for Military Training
ALTON – To help veterans obtain advanced certifications and degrees, state Rep. Dan Beiser, D-Alton, recently passed legislation to make it easier for veterans to apply their military training to current coursework while enrolled in higher education. “Members of our military are extremely well trained, but this training does not carry over as academic credit […]
September 19, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Digital Professor Speaks
University and college students will soon be back in their classrooms. However, more and more students now study online, rather than in a classroom. This is both positive and worrisome. I know, as earlier this summer I taught my first online university course. Online education is a transformative disruption in teaching and learning. Freed from […]
September 19, 2017
Academics
Digital Court Reporting Program Focuses on Military
Tidewater Community College has added a new digital court reporting program targeting military students. The program, which is sponsored by the college’s Center for Military and Veterans Education, will provide training in audio and video equipment, court and deposition procedures and the advanced digital court reporting processes. Military-related students are able to use their GI […]
September 19, 2017
Other News
California Invests $200 Million in Voc Ed
More Americans are going to college than ever before. The most recent census found that 33.4 percent of adults over the age of 24 have earned a bachelor’s degree or more. Kurt Bauman, Chief of the Education and Social Stratification Branch for the U.S. Census describes this as, “a significant milestone” for the country. For […]
September 19, 2017
Other News
House Bill Provides Billions More for Military
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House on Thursday passed a sweeping $1.2 trillion spending bill that provides billions more dollars for the military while sparing medical research and popular community development programs from deep cuts sought by President Donald Trump. The vote was 211-198 for the massive measure that wrapped the 12 annual spending bills […]
September 19, 2017
Other News
World’s Most-Expensive Education? College in U.S.
The price of a college degree is more expensive in America than anywhere else in the world, according to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. The OECD looked at public and private college costs in its 35 member countries and found that higher education is priciest in the United States […]
September 19, 2017
Academics
The Education of Donald Trump: Military Advisers School Him
NEW YORK — On a sweltering Washington summer day, President Donald Trump’s motorcade pulled up to the Pentagon for a meeting largely billed as a briefing on the Afghanistan conflict and the fight against the Islamic State group. There, in the windowless meeting room known as “The Tank”, Trump was to be briefed on the […]
September 19, 2017
Policy
V.A. Wants to Waive Anti-Corruption Rule
The Trump administration is seeking to waive a 50-year-old anti-corruption law that prevents officials who administer the GI Bill from accepting money from for-profit schools backed by taxpayer subsidies. The proposed regulation, published Thursday in the Federal Register, would allow employees of the Department of Veterans Affairs to receive “wages, salary, dividends, profits, gratuities” and […]
September 19, 2017
Students
CUPA-HR Takes on Campus Free Speech Controversy
Higher education human resources leaders from across the nation gathered to address challenges that included identifying pay gaps, representation shortcomings, and faculty academic freedom concerns.
September 18, 2017
Women
Guillermo: Free Speech for the President, But Not Jemele Hill?
President Trump knows exactly what he’s doing — he’s making everyone question all free speech in America except his own.
September 18, 2017
Opinion
Higher Ed Curriculum Must Address Race, Racism
We are living in a time when issues of race, and racism, are on the table.
September 18, 2017
Students
College Students: Hazing Here to Stay
A new survey has found that a majority of current college students — 52 percent — thought hazing will always be present on college campuses while 46 percent thought it could be eliminated.
September 18, 2017
Students
Cabrini University, Police Probing Slur on Student’s Door
WAYNE, Pa. — A Catholic university in eastern Pennsylvania and local police are investigating a racial slur written on the dormitory door of a Black student. Sennia Vann says she returned to her dorm at Cabrini University on Saturday night and found the slur written in marker following the words “Go away.” The liberal arts […]
September 18, 2017
Students
Fraternity Ends Louisiana State Chapter After Student Death
BATON ROUGE, La. — A national fraternity says it has closed its chapter at Louisiana State University while it investigates the death of a freshman who was being considered for membership. A statement Monday on Phi Delta Theta’s website says preliminary results from its investigation of 18-year-old Maxwell Gruver’s death found that some members were […]
September 18, 2017
Students
Swastika, Racist Messages Reported at Drake University
DES MOINES, Iowa — Administrators say a swastika was carved into an elevator on campus at Drake University in Des Moines and a racist message left outside an African-American student’s dorm room in a cowardly attack. The Des Moines Register reports that the message was left on a whiteboard on the door of a first-year […]
September 18, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Push “Medicare for All”
Washington – The smartest, savviest people in Washington will tell you Bernie Sanders’ “Medicare for all” idea is dead on arrival, a waste of time and energy. But since those same smart, savvy people told you Donald Trump didn’t have a prayer of becoming president, I’d advise keeping an open mind. What the Vermont senator’s […]
September 18, 2017
Disparities
Sitting Too Long Can Kill You
In 1960, approximately 50 percent of U.S. jobs required heavy to moderate physical activity. Today, that number stands at just 20 percent, meaning approximately 80 percent of jobs are almost wholly sedentary or demand minimal physical exertion. The vast majority of us spend the bulk of our workdays being mostly immobile, glued to our chairs […]
September 18, 2017
Disparities
Initiative Targets Disparities in Rural N.C.
A first-ever effort to marshal the combined resources of 12 ECU colleges and schools, 14 centers and institutes and university partners behind a single, coordinated campaign, the “Rural Prosperity Initiative,” was launched today by Chancellor Cecil P. Staton. East Carolina University is focusing its extensive research and engagement expertise on finding solutions to the extraordinary […]
September 18, 2017
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