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Academics
Berkeley Offers Most Popular Data Course Online for Free
Do you need to update your skills? UC Berkeley has a deal that’s tough to beat. California’s flagship public university is taking its most popular on campus class, Foundations of Data Science, and offering it online for free. You access the class through the campus’s online education hub, edX. The Public Affairs Office says the […]
April 6, 2018
Veterans
Waco Considers Partnership to Keep Fort Hood Soldiers in Texas
The City of Waco is looking into a partnership that could keep hundreds of Army veterans leaving Fort Hood in Central Texas. The Soldier for Life Transition Assistance Program eases soldiers and their families into civilian jobs. Organizers report that 900 soldiers leave Fort Hood every months and just more than half of them say […]
April 6, 2018
Policy
14 Years After Deportation, Veteran Returns to U.S.
Hector Barajas-Varela is finally coming home. 14 years after he was deported, the Mexican immigrant and U.S. Army veteran was granted U.S. Citizenship.On April 13, he’ll head to San Diego, California for a naturalization ceremony to make it official. “I look forward to opening my G.I. Bill so I can get my education,” Barajas-Varela told A […]
April 6, 2018
Academics
Spratt Education Center Schools Military Members
Participating in passionate research projects, engaging with the newest field information available and eventually crossing a stage to accept a specialized diploma — for many around the world, including military members, college is an aspiration they hope someday to achieve. Spratt Education Center professionals assigned to the 20th Force Support Squadron want to help make this […]
April 6, 2018
Academics
Millennials, Generation Z Dominate Enlistments for Financial Prospects
Serving in the military has been changed and molded throughout the different climates of the United States. The mentality, culture and shape of the military has changed as each generation takes its turn in serving the county. Now, the younger generations are taking their turn in shaping the present and future of the United States […]
April 6, 2018
News Roundup
Cultural Diversity Highlights 2018 List of Guggenheim Fellows
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced Thursday its 2018 recipients of annual Guggenheim Fellowships, with a total of 173 being awarded in the United States and Canada across the fields of science, scholarship, writing and the arts. Among recipients is Dr. Carol C. Anderson, an African-American historian and Charles Howard Candler Professor and Chair […]
April 5, 2018
Students
Howard Faculty ‘No Confidence’ Voting Ends Friday
During a three-day balloting period that began Wednesday and ends Friday, Howard University’s full-time faculty will decide whether or not embattled university President Dr. Wayne A.I. Frederick and other top leaders at the school get a “no confidence’ vote. This comes in the midst of a student takeover of the administration building that is entering […]
April 5, 2018
STEM
STEM Conference Tackles Student Readiness for Evolving Workforce
WASHINGTON — The seventh annual U.S. News and World Report STEM Solutions Presents: Workforce of Tomorrow conference brought together leaders in education, business, government and the nonprofit sector to discuss strategies to develop the next generation of students in STEM fields.
April 5, 2018
News Roundup
Turkey: 4 Staff Members Killed in Attack at University
ANKARA, Turkey — A research assistant shot and killed four staff members at a university in central Turkey, the university’s president said Thursday. Prof. Hasan Gonen of Osmangazi University, in the city of Eskisehir, some 250 kilometers west of Ankara, told reporters that the gunman shot and killed a deputy dean, a secretary and two […]
April 5, 2018
Latest News
Professor’s Research Rejects Stereotypes of Black Women Athletes
Dr. Tomika Ferguson recalls the words that were the genesis of her ongoing research on women of color in college athletics. As an elite student-athlete, she was once described as a “workhorse” with “natural athletic ability.”
April 5, 2018
News Roundup
University Police Shoot Student Wielding Metal Pipe
CHICAGO — Officials say a University of Chicago police officer responding to a call about a burglary shot and seriously wounded a student who was wielding a metal pipe. The Chicago Tribune reports that university officials said in an email that three university officers responded just before 10:15 p.m. Tuesday in the city’s Hyde Park […]
April 5, 2018
Opinion
Do the Right Thing: Prioritize Public Education and Health
Studies have shown that investments in education and health can have far-ranging returns for society. Yet we, as a country, have given mostly lip service to the importance of both despite the critical benefits they can provide.
April 5, 2018
News Roundup
Illinois Governor Donates ‘Godfather’ Papers to Dartmouth
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has donated his collection of “The Godfather” author Mario Puzo’s papers to his alma mater, Dartmouth College. The New Hampshire school says in a news release it was “an offer they couldn’t refuse,” echoing one of the movie’s famous lines. The 50 boxes of papers donated by Rauner […]
April 5, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Betraying Veterans
Whenever Donald Trump fires a member of his administration, the least likely reason is incompetence, corruption, abuse of authority or wasteful extravagance. If those were causes for dismissal in the Trump administration, nearly his entire cabinet would have been replaced by now. That tweet signaling the removal of Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin — an […]
April 5, 2018
Academics
Why No One Finishes Online Courses
In 2015, we learned that the global market for online learning reached $107-billion, a number that got the attention of thousands of educators and entrepreneurs. Just two years later, in 2017, this market has grown to reach an enormous $255-billion. This represents 238% growth—a growth rate that has some industries drooling with envy. Yet, as thousands of […]
April 5, 2018
Veterans
Foundation Aims to Provide College Aid of Fallen Militar
Founded by an Army veteran and staffed mainly by veterans and Gold Star families, Children of Fallen Patriots Foundation is on a mission to provide college educations for people who lost a parent due to military service. To accomplish that goal, the group needs money and it needs to find the people it wants to […]
April 5, 2018
Veterans
Lawmakers Want Job Opportunities for Veterans
There are an estimated 331,000 veterans living in Minnesota, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs, and nearly 7 percent of Wilkin County’s population is veterans. Hiring veterans has become important in both the state’s private and public sectors in the last few years and officials want to continue adding veterans to the state’s economy. […]
April 5, 2018
Veterans
Husband in Murder-Suicide Case Was Retired Major, Transition Coordinator
A couple found dead in a suspected murder-suicide on Monday have been identified as a retired U.S. Army major and his Russian-born wife. Maj. Bradley Kinser, formerly a strategic intelligence research officer for U.S. Army Africa who retired in 2015, was found dead by local authorities in the bathroom of his home near Vicenza. His […]
April 5, 2018
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