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Settlement for Ex-ITT Students Moves Forward

Former students of the bankrupt ITT Technical Institute are one step closer to seeing some compensation. A judge gave preliminary approval Wednesday for former students of the collapsed chain of for-profit schools to receive a $1.5 billion settlement in bankruptcy court, according to the Harvard Law School Project on Predatory Student Lending, which has been […]

February 9, 2018

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Military: A Grand Parade Won’t Solve Problems

President Trump is receiving quite a bit of pushback for his plan for a grand military parade down Pennsylvania Avenue. The Washington Post’s Greg Jaffe and Philip Rucker reported: Surrounded by the military’s highest-ranking officials, including Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., Trump’s seemingly abstract desire […]

February 9, 2018

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Air Force Dropping Re-Enlistment Bonuses in 17 Fields

Air Force cryptologic language analysts who specialize in Korean or Hebrew and who are eligible to re-enlist may want to submit their paperwork now. The same goes for airmen in more than a dozen Air Force career fields about to lose retention bonuses that can be as much as $90,000. The Air Force on Tuesday […]

February 9, 2018

House Bill Calls for More Transition Training

Lawmakers on Capitol Hill want service members to get more training for civilian life before transitioning out of the military. Legislation introduced in the House of Representatives this week seeks to boost participation in specialized workshops offered through the Defense Department’s Transition Assistance Program, or TAP. The bill, introduced by Rep. Stephanie Murphy, D-Fla., would […]

February 9, 2018

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Maryland Offers $100 Million to Settle State’s HBCU Case

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan has offered to spend up to $100 million to settle a 12-year-long lawsuit brought on by a coalition of the state’s four historically Black colleges concerning inequality in higher education.

February 8, 2018

Emerging Scholar Profile: Yoon and Art for Social Justice

Dr. Injeong Yoon’s pathway to the University of Arkansas, where she began a tenure-track teaching position last year, is hardly traditional.

February 8, 2018

Mellon Foundation Selects Renowned Poet and Scholar as President

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which supports humanities, culture and the arts in higher education, has appointed nationally acclaimed poet and scholar Elizabeth Alexander as its president.

February 8, 2018

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Hip-hop Evolution Topic of College Lecture

RICHMOND, Va. — The University of Richmond will host a lecture and panel discussion examining hip-hop as a social, political and artistic movement. “Sampling Black History: Examining the Evolution of Hip Hop in America” will be held on Feb. 19, 7-9:30 p.m., in the Robins School of Business, Ukrop Auditorium. Panelists are hip-hop producer Hank […]

February 8, 2018

State Acts to Remove Gun Ban from Campus Public Spaces

JACKSON, Ms. — It’s guns versus college football in a dispute over where certain Mississippi residents can carry firearms. At issue is House Bill 1083, which would void rules limiting where some people are allowed to carry guns on public property. House Judiciary A Committee Chairman Andy Gipson, the bill’s sponsor, says all it does […]

February 8, 2018

Secret ‘Pig Roast’ Fat-Shaming Sex Contest: Frat in Trouble

ITHACA, N.Y. — A Cornell University fraternity chapter that held a sex contest that members dubbed “the Pig Roast” in reference to the weight of the women they slept with has been placed on probation for two years. The university said officials launched an investigation of the Zeta Beta Tau fraternity last year after reports […]

February 8, 2018

Trump’s Parade

It is nice that President Trump likes France. Our Gallic friends and allies have made wonderful contributions to art, music, architecture, literature, and gastronomy. But like an American student who spent a semester in Paris and toured mostly the inside of wine bottles, Trump seems to have been impressed by the wrong thing during his […]

February 8, 2018

$14 M Scholarship for Military Offspring Ends Soon

A college scholarship program that will award a combined $1.4 million to hundreds of military children will stop taking applications Feb. 16 ― one of several such programs with approaching deadlines. Completed applications for the Scholarships for Military Children Program, which is conducted each year in partnership with the Defense Commissary Agency, must reach the […]

February 8, 2018

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Syracuse U. Gets $20 M Gift for Vets Center

Syracuse University, home to the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), today announced a $20 million gift from U.S. Navy veteran and Life Trustee Daniel D’Aniello ’68 and his wife, Gayle. This gift, one of the single largest gifts in University history, will support construction of the National Veterans Resource Center (NVRC), a first-of-its-kind […]

February 8, 2018

Military Times Ranks Top Cybersecurity Programs

When Ben McInnis got out of the Marine Corps four years ago, he was looking for a career with job security, opportunities for growth and better pay than the $10 per hour he made washing cars. Then came news about the infamous Target data breach affecting millions of customers in 2013 and, a year later, […]

February 8, 2018

Public Demands Firing of Teacher for Anti-Military Rant

Military veterans, parents and students are demanding that a California high school teacher be fired after he told students that the U.S. Armed Forces are for the “lowest of the low.” Hundreds of people packed a school board meeting in Pico Rivera, a suburb of Los Angeles, on Tuesday night to call for the immediate […]

February 8, 2018

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Texas Man Applied to Teach for ISIS

A Texas man wanting to join ISIS sent the terrorist organization his resume and cover letter explaining why he would be a good candidate to teach English. “I am looking to get a position teaching English to students in the Islamic State,” Warren Clark, 33, wrote in his cover letter, using the name Abu Muhammad […]

February 8, 2018

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Air Forces Cuts Back on Transition Rules

Air Force Reservists will find it a little easier to meet some of their training requirements after the deployment. New Air Force policy cuts some transition assistance program (TAP) requirements for airmen in the Reserves. Reservists who were on orders for 180 days or more are required to go through TAP before being released into […]

February 8, 2018

Reports of Sexual Assault Double At West Point

WASHINGTON — The number of sexual assaults reported at the U.S. Military Academy roughly doubled during the last school year, according to data reviewed by The Associated Press, in the latest example of the armed forces’ persistent struggle to root out such misbehavior. It’s the fourth year in a row that sexual assault reports increased […]

February 8, 2018

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