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California Governor’s Community College Funding Proposal Creates Controversy

California Gov. Jerry Brown’s bold new budget proposal that awards community college districts funding not just for each enrolled student, but also based on the number of low-income students being served, has drawn praise and criticism.

April 4, 2018

California Gov. Jerry Brown

From Practitioner to Doctoral Student: Five Prep Strategies

Depending on how long it has been since you were in the classroom, transitioning to graduate school and doctoral studies will come with its challenges. However, there are some strategies that can help you prepare to ease this transition.

April 4, 2018

Arthur Ashe Scholar: Haley Clark, Leading By Example

Despite high expectations, the University of Georgia Lady Bulldogs exited in the second round of this year’s NCAA Tournament. For graduate student Haley Clark, the 2018 Arthur Ashe Jr. Female Sports Scholar, these were the final basketball games of her outstanding collegiate career.

April 4, 2018

Arthur Ashe Scholar: Blaise Taylor, Committed to Serving Others

Blaise Taylor of Arkansas State University, this year’s Arthur Ashe Jr. Male Sports Scholar, is a gifted defensive back who holds the school’s record for career punt return yards and finished his collegiate career as a three-time All-Sun Belt Conference selection.

April 4, 2018

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Arkansas State University Gets $10 Million From Alumnus

JONESBORO, Ark. — Arkansas State University is renaming its business college to honor an alumnus who donated $10 million to his alma mater. The university announced the gift Tuesday from Neil Griffin, who lives in Kerrville, Texas. The 91-year-old World War II veteran graduated from Arkansas State in 1948 with a degree in business administration. […]

April 4, 2018

Former VP Al Gore to Deliver Commencement Speech at University of Maryland

COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Former Vice President Al Gore will deliver the commencement address this spring to graduates at the University of Maryland. The school announced Monday that Gore will address the College Park campus May 20 during graduation ceremonies at the Xfinity Center. In a news release, university President Wallace Loh cited Gore’s ability […]

April 4, 2018

College President Pleads Guilty Before Arkansas Fraud Trial

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The president of a Christian college in Springdale pleaded guilty to a fraud charge Wednesday, admitting he took part in what prosecutors called a kickback scheme involving his school. Oren Paris III had faced a trial Monday with former state Sen. Jon Woods and consultant Randell Shelton. Instead, the president of Ecclesia […]

April 4, 2018

Sports, Sponsorships and Obesity

Last September, the National Football League struck a deal with Frito-Lay that allowed the company to produce limited-edition bags of Tostitos tortilla chips, with each package bearing the logo of one of 19 featured NFL teams. Several months earlier, Major League Baseball announced that Nathan’s Famous would be its first-ever official hot dog. Now the […]

April 4, 2018

Sports Sponsorships and Obesity

Transgender Health Care Endangered

A few years ago, Stephan Rivera, a 31-year-old native of the Bronx, New York, consulted two doctors about his prospects for “top surgery,” a double mastectomy. “I was like, I really just want to cut them off,” he recalls. Although he was generally content —working as a teacher’s aide in a public school and living with […]

April 4, 2018

Transgender Health Care

NIH Rejected Alcohol Ad Study during Quest for Industry Funds

It’s rare for officials at the National Institutes of Health to summon university scientists from hundreds of miles away. So when Dr. Michael Siegel of Boston University and a colleague got the call to meet with the director of NIH’s Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, he said, “I knew we were in trouble.” He […]

April 4, 2018

NIH Rejects Alcohol Study

Opioid Firm Blames Government for Native American Crisis

A top U.S. opioid distributor is pointing fingers at the government for the deluge of prescription painkillers that have poured into Native American communities at alarmingly high rates. McKesson Corp., one of the country’s three big wholesale drug distributors, is embroiled in litigation brought by Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation, the country’s largest tribal group, which has […]

April 4, 2018

Opioid Native Americans

Microplastics Found in Nearly All Bottled Water

Drining from a plastic water bottle likely means ingesting microplastic particles, a new study claims, prompting fresh concerns — and calls for scientific research — on the possible health implications of widespread plastics pollution. A study carried out on more than 250 water bottles sourced from 11 brands in nine different countries revealed the Microplastic contamination […]

April 4, 2018

Bottled Water Contaminations

New Iowa Law Allows Plans that Skirt ACA

Iowa will allow people to buy a cheaper form of health insurance that skirts Affordable Care Act rules, under legislation signed into law Monday by the state’s Republican governor. The law will allow Iowa’s Farm Bureau to partner with a designated insurance company to offer so-called health benefit plans that technically aren’t defined as insurance. […]

April 4, 2018

VA Choice Could Open Way to Privatization

For the last year, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin insisted the VA would not be privatized on his watch. Now, thanks to a Koch-supported coup at the top of the second-largest department in government, his watch has ended — and the battle over privatization persists. For years the Koch brothers have been hovering around the […]

April 4, 2018

First Responders Improving Interactions for People with Autism

First responders areare increasingly likely to respond to an incident involving a person with autism. Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is the fastest-growing developmental disability affecting about 1 in 68 children in the United States. On a global scale approximately 1 percent of the world population has ASD. How can first responders adapt their response when […]

April 4, 2018

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NYC Men Initiative Diversifies Teacher Workforce

NYC Men Teach, a teacher recruitment and retention program under New York City’s Young Men’s Initiative (YMI), is actively working to diversify the teacher workforce to reflect the city’s diverse student population.

April 3, 2018

Census Citizenship Question Sparks Concern Among Some Social Scientists

Some prominent social scientists are sharing concerns about the Trump administration’s intention to include a question about citizenship in the 2020 national census, adding their voices to opposition expressed by some lawmakers and immigration-rights groups.

April 3, 2018

Reclaiming the ‘Fierce Urgency of Now’

As we reflect on the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we hear the words of his 9-year-old granddaughter, Yolanda Renee King: “I have a dream that enough is enough.” Now is the time to reclaim the fierce urgency of now.

April 3, 2018