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DOD Official Visits Training Center

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Education and Training in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (OSD) for Readiness, Mr. Charles (Fred) Drummond visited Asymmetric Warfare Training Center (AWTC) and several other training venues located on Fort A.P. Hill, 07 Mar. During his visit at AWTC, Mr. Drummond received a facilities capability […]

March 16, 2018

DOD Official Visits Training Center

Veteran Finds New Life as River Guide

“There’s something healing about the water. I don’t fully understand it.” Suzy Matsubara didn’t grow up around the water, but she was hooked from the moment she stepped into a 14-foot orange raft and began paddling down the Rogue River. She stared down at her reflection in the dark water, cut by each forward stroke […]

March 16, 2018

Vet to River Guide

Professor Uses Virtual Labs to Teach IT Skills

Steph YoungGonzaga credits online learning with enriching her education and helping establish herself as an IT thought leader. Now she wants to pay it forward. After earning both a Masters and a Doctorate online, and following a successful twenty-year career as a corporate IT executive, YoungGonzaga recently returned to her roots. She pivoted her career […]

March 16, 2018

Florida Bills Support Military, Veterans

Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed a pair of veterans-focused bills. He held the signing ceremony Tuesday at Jacksonville’s National Guard armory. The measures are meant to make it easier for vets and active duty service members to get an education and a job. The first new law waives some fees and requirements for state […]

March 16, 2018

Bill Supports Military and Vets

Rep. Jim Banks Discusses Military Education Options

A new bill introduced in Congress last week would provide more educational choice for military families. The legislation, sponsored by Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., allows military families to open an education savings account for funding a child’s education expenses. The money could be used for private school tuition, textbooks, online classes, private tutoring, and college tuition. […]

March 16, 2018

Study: Online Instructors Respond More to White Males

Online course instructors are 94 percent more likely to respond to discussion forum comments made by students with names connoting that they are white and male compared to other race-gender groups, according to research published in March. The experimental study, “Bias in Online Classes: Evidence from a Field Experiment,” was conducted by researchers from Stanford […]

March 16, 2018

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Regional HBCUs Move to Recruit Students at Closing Concordia

When word spread that Concordia College – a small historically Black college in Selma, Alabama – was closing its doors, nearby institutions sprang into action to recruit their students. Talladega College and Oakwood and Alabama State universities are offering students options to transfer.

March 15, 2018

Painful Parallels in School Safety Debate in U.S., Nigeria

ABUJA, Nigeria — Facing different but equally harrowing crises, parents and educators in the United States and northeast Nigeria are debating similarly drastic measures to improve school safety as a painful public reckoning plays out in both countries.As students hold walkouts across the U.S. amid a scourge of mass shootings, President Donald Trump’s proposal to […]

March 15, 2018

Students Around U.S. Stage Huge Walkout Against Gun Violence

They bowed their heads in honor of the dead. They carried signs with messages such as “Never again” and “Am I next?” They railed against the National Rifle Association and the politicians who support it. And over and over, they repeated the message: Enough is enough. In a wave of protests one historian called the […]

March 15, 2018

‘Multiple’ Fatalities When FL Bridge Collapses

MIAMI — A pedestrian bridge being built across an eight-lane highway collapsed at a Miami-area college Thursday, crushing eight vehicles under massive slabs and killing multiple people, authorities said. Search and rescue missions were underway. Eight people were taken to hospitals. The exact number of fatalities was not immediately known. “The main focus is to […]

March 15, 2018

#SpringRelease Clears Clutter, Eases Stress

At any moment in time, the state of our mental health depends on any number of simple and complicated internal and external factors. Stress is a major source of and contributor to that state of mental health. Whether mental or physical, clutter creates stress. Here’s a fun, rewarding way to declutter.

March 15, 2018

Why Colleges Must Fight the Wage Gap

The saying goes, “You should never wake a sleeping baby.” Today, the average wage gap between women and men is almost 80 cents to the dollar. If the “baby” is gender inequality in the workforce, the U.S. has done an exceptional job of keeping the baby asleep.

March 15, 2018

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Writers of Color Tackle Human Rights

At first glance, making the argument that human rights are important seems unnecessary. Particularly in America — whose founding document proclaims the “unalienable Rights” of all individuals — it would be difficult to find anyone willing to admit that human rights aren’t valuable.

March 15, 2018

Education Options

Unfortunately, the growing divide between the military and society was apparent last week when a teacher’s inaccurate and misinformed statements about the quality of America’s armed forces made national headlines. As a U.S. Army officer for more than 30 years, I can tell you our nation’s military services are among the most respected organizations in […]

March 15, 2018

Education Options

Parents: Military Ignored Girls’ Abuse on Base

The three military fathers sat at the commander’s conference table on the U.S. Army base in Germany, pleading for help. They told the commander that their daughters were among a half-dozen girls sexually assaulted by a boy in their first-grade class at the base school. The principal had known about the boy’s behavior for months, […]

March 15, 2018

Girls Abused at Base School

AP Finds U.S. Military Overlooks Sex Abuse Among Kids on Bases

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and rapes among kids on military […]

March 15, 2018

Sex Abuse on Bases

Coursera Partners with Universities to Offer Online Degrees

In January 2012, Udacity was launched; then Coursera in April 2012, followed by edX in May 2012. Of course, these are the world’s leading online learning platforms offering MOOCs, or Massively Open Online Courses. Now Coursera is teaming up with several leading universities in the UK and U.S. to leverage its MOOCs platform to offer […]

March 15, 2018

Coursera Online Learning

Bridgepoint wants to Convert Its Colleges to Non-Profts

Sunday we wrote about the new gold rush in education: for-profit colleges converting to non-profit status, allowing them to shed the stigma and special regulatory requirements of for-profits, notably the federal 90-10 rule, while retaining parallel for-profit entities that could keep getting paid by the non-profit, and thus keep getting rich off an endless flow of […]

March 15, 2018