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Why Your Child’s Schools Asks If You’re Active Duty
If you’re wondering why your child’s school asked whether a parent is active duty, it’s because for the first time, schools are being required to collect and report data on assessments of military children. It’s anticipated that states and school districts around the country will start reporting that data later this year, according to the […]
September 18, 2018
Policy
Bill Would Help Military Earn Credits from Training
U.S. Rep. Conor Lamb and a Republican House member have teamed to introduce a bill to help veterans obtain college credit for their military education and training so they have a smoother path to earning degrees. “American service members receive the best training in the world. They deserve to get credit for that when they […]
September 18, 2018
Policy
Court Weighs Options in DeVos For-Profit Suit
WASHINGTON— The Trump administration has asked a federal court for another chance to delay an Obama-era policy meant to boost protections for students defrauded by for-profit schools. The request came two days after the court ruled that Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’ move to freeze the regulation known as borrower defense was “arbitrary and capricious.” That […]
September 18, 2018
Policy
Problems Persist for For-Profit Education
The Trump administration is all in on for-profit colleges—but even with the governmental trade winds at its back, the industry is still struggling to find its footing amidst mass campus closures and plunging enrollment. More than 100 for-profit schools have closed in recent years, including major chains like ITT Technical Institute and Corinthian Colleges, leaving […]
September 18, 2018
News Roundup
UPenn’s College of Liberal & Professional Studies to Offer Bachelor’s Degree Online
The School of Arts and Sciences’ College of Liberal and Professional Studies (LPS) at the University of Pennsylvania has announced it will create an option for students to pursue a bachelor’s degree at the institution online, beginning Fall 2019. The goal of the new program is to make Arts and Sciences education more available and […]
September 18, 2018
Military
Study: Vets Get Less Tuition Covered for Medical Degree
Stephen Graves was in his first year at Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine in 2014 when he discovered that the Post-9/11 GI Bill would cover more of his tuition were he enrolled in a law school or MBA program.
September 18, 2018
Students
Alma College to Join Detroit Promise Program
Alma College has announced it will partner with the Detroit Promise program, an initiative which provides full-tuition scholarships to qualified Detroit students graduating from any high school in the City of Detroit. This partnership marks the 19th four-year institution and 25th post-secondary partner to join the Detroit Promise. “Alma has a history of supporting students […]
September 18, 2018
Students
TRIO Programs: Paving the Way for Diverse Students in Higher Education
TRIO programs are essential educational opportunity programs that are vital in promoting educational success, retention, persistence and providing pathways to immense opportunities for low-income, first-generation college students and students with disabilities from diverse backgrounds.
September 18, 2018
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September 18, 2018
News Roundup
Students in Educational Limbo After Sudden Harrison College Closure
College students in three states and five Indiana communities are scrambling to get their education on track and their money back, NBC affiliate station WTHR reported. Without warning, Indianapolis-based Harrison College closed campuses in Anderson, Columbus, Evansville, Fort Wayne and Terre Haute, as well as in Ohio and North Carolina. Answers are hard to come […]
September 18, 2018
HBCUs
Alabama Senator Introduces Bill to Support MSIs
U.S. Senator Doug Jones has introduced the Strengthening Minority-Serving Institutions Act which will increase mandatory funding levels from $255 million to $300 million for HBCUs and other minority-serving institutions of higher education. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) recently investigated the capital finance needs of HBCUs. Its report found that 46 percent of all HBCU buildings are […]
September 18, 2018
HBCUs
National HBCU Conference Week Underscores Institutional Competitiveness
WASHINGTON — Competitiveness is the theme for this year’s National Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) Week Conference hosted by the White House Initiative on HBCUs.
September 17, 2018
Students
Geographical Bias in Testing: Is Cultural Bias a Problem of the Past or Are We Simply Not Looking in the Right Space?
Despite the recent emergence of test optional and/or test flexible programs, wherein students do not need to, or can decide whether they want to submit their standardized test scores such as SAT/ACT for admission consideration, these standardized admission tests continue to play an important role in college choice, access, and admission decisions.
September 17, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Looming Oligopoly?
If President Donald Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions care about affordable health care, they will stop the Department of Justice from approving proposed mergers in the pharmaceutical industry. The Wall Street Journal reports the Justice Department plans to approve mergers of CVS Health with Aetna, and Express Scripts with Cigna. It means two of […]
September 17, 2018
Policies
17 Health Care Systems Launch Project for Underserved
Seventeen health systems, encompassing 280 hospitals—5 percent of the hospitals in the country—have come together to figure out financially sustainable solutions to the problem of how to improve health care for underserved people and their families. Read More
September 17, 2018
Policies
HIV Research Yields Dividends Across Medical Fields
Since the first cases of AIDS were reported in the United States 37 years ago, the National Institutes of Health has invested more than $69 billion in the understanding, treatment and prevention of HIV/AIDS. Beyond the development of life-saving medications and innovative prevention modalities, such research has led to numerous advances outside the HIV field, […]
September 17, 2018
Policies
Food Safety Scares Up in 2018
Matt Arteaga, 51, is one of about 500 people who got sick this summer in an outbreak linked to McDonald’s salads. The cause was a parasite, cyclospora. Arteaga fell ill on a Thursday afternoon in June. He was in his office in Danville, Ill., when he says the symptoms came on quickly. “The chills, and […]
September 17, 2018
Disparities
The ‘Mona Lisa’ Allure: Could It Be the Result of Thyroid Disease?
Mona Lisa’s smile is often described as enigmatic, but could the mysterious allure of this iconic painting actually be due to an underlying illness in “Lisa” herself? At least one doctor thinks so. In a Letter to the Editor in the September issue of the journal Mayo Clinic Proceedings, a cardiologist and his colleague take […]
September 17, 2018
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