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North Carolina ‘Dreamers’ Volunteer, Mentor Young People

SANFORD, N.C. — After midnight one Saturday, Teresa Rivera and her mother, Juana Capcha, had just fallen asleep on the overstuffed couch in their living room in Huancayo, Peru. Suddenly, they were jolted awake by the sound of a door slamming shut as Rivera’s father stormed into the house — reeking of beer. He staggered over to Rivera’s mother and began an angry tirade.

January 23, 2018

Grasping Black Politics

January 23, 2018

Embracing Motherhood

January 23, 2018

Aspiration and Effort

January 23, 2018

PADMAJA-GUGGILLA

Defying Expectations

January 23, 2018

XU LIN

XU LIN has been named associate professor in the Department of Economics at Virginia Tech College of Science. Prior to joining Virginia Tech, Lin worked as an associate professor at Wayne State University. Lin earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Renmin University of China and master’s and doctoral degrees from Ohio State University.

January 23, 2018

WOLDE-AB ISAAC

WOLDE-AB ISAAC has been appointed chancellor of the Riverside Community College District in California. Isaac has served as president of Riverside City College since 2015. He is a graduate of Haile Selassie University in Ethiopia. He studied at University of Uppsala in Sweden and earned a master’s degree and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan.

January 23, 2018

YEHIA MASSOUD

YEHIA MASSOUD has been appointed dean of the School of Systems and Enterprises at the Stevens Institute of Technology. He had been the head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Massoud obtained his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

January 23, 2018

Embattled Missouri Governor Proposes More Cuts to Colleges

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens proposed another round of cuts to public colleges and universities Monday during a budget announcement that also marked his first public appearance since acknowledging an extramarital affair two weeks ago. While unveiling a recommended $28.8-billion budget for the fiscal year that begins in July, the Republican governor […]

January 23, 2018

Lindsay Lohan’s Hockey-Playing Cousin Punched at Pizzeria

BOSTON — A Boston College hockey player who happens to be Lindsay Lohan’s cousin is out indefinitely after he was punched at a Boston restaurant and sent to the hospital. The university said in a statement Sunday that graduate student Kevin Lohan was the victim of an “unprovoked assault.” Police are investigating a report of […]

January 23, 2018

Community Colleges

Mississippi Universities Seek More State Funds, Outline Budget Woes

JACKSON, Miss. — Leaders of Mississippi‘s eight public universities are ringing alarm bells about state funding, saying they could lose their ability to compete if funding cuts from recent years aren’t restored. In presentations Monday to legislators, Higher Education Commissioner Glenn Boyce and university presidents warned that Mississippi could fall further behind the nation economically […]

January 23, 2018

Pay for College

The last part of this three-part series hits on the outlying areas of where financial assistance may come from for those attending college. We have successfully touched base on financial aid, scholarships and now there are a few programs which straddle both financial assistance and scholarship lines. The first item: the GI Bill, which is […]

January 23, 2018

Program Stresses Education’s Value to Soldiers

WIESBADEN, Germany — U.S. Army Signal Soldiers gathered for a series of classes and presentations about higher education opportunities, the promotion system and other personnel readiness issues during the quarterly Soldier Development Program Jan. 18, 2018 in Wiesbaden. The classes were organized by the 102nd Strategic Signal Battalion, 2nd Theater Signal Brigade, and included participants […]

January 23, 2018

Tulane Professor Gets $3.7 M Military Grant

NEW ORLEANS — A Tulane University professor is getting a $3.7 million, three-year military grant to help develop computing technology. The university announced earlier this month that professor Michael Mislove, chair of Tulane’s computer science department, received the grant from the U.S. Air Force Office of Scientific Research. The research grant is aimed at creating […]

January 23, 2018

Same-Sex Army Couple Wed at West Point

WEST POINT, N.Y. — Two Army captains who met at West Point returned there to be married, in what is believed to be the first same-sex marriage of active-duty personnel at the storied New York military academy. The New York Times reported Captains Daniel Hall, 30, and Vincent Franchino, 26, both Apache helicopter pilots stationed […]

January 23, 2018

Sal Khan: Free, Online Education for the World

Sal Khan has interesting ideas about what constitutes riveting dinner conversation. At the moment, he’s partial to “mind-blowing” similarities between Greek, Latin, Germanic languages and ancient Sanskrit as well as the fact that Iran and Ireland are the only countries with names that mean “land of the Aryans.” “That’s still my favorite thing to share […]

January 23, 2018

Augusta U. Enters Partnership with Fort Gordon

Gretchen Caughman was all smiles Friday as she was handed a pen and directed to sign a stack of papers inside a classroom at the Command Support Center at Fort Gordon. The signing for the executive vice president for academic affairs and provost at Augusta University represented the beginning of a new partnership with the […]

January 23, 2018

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3 Things Military Families Endure in a Shutdown

At midnight EST Friday, January 19, 2018, the government shut down. Yep, ultimately put out the “closed for business” sign. But what you may not know is military families, and many federal employees, are affected in ways which the average person does not learn on the news. Military personnel still work but do not get […]

January 23, 2018