Search | The EDU Ledger

Welcome to The EDU Ledger.com! We’ve moved from Diverse.

Welcome to The EDU Ledger! We’ve moved from Diverse: Issues In Higher Education.

Adult Learner Enrollment Rising

Adult learners are expected to grow as a major part of the undergraduate enrollment population in the next nine years, a data point that will require financial and structural adjustments from institutions and states. More flexible scheduling in courses, unique options for billing and additional credentialing opportunities for industry-specific majors are all accommodations adult learners […]

August 12, 2016

27b258a74e5b021a1e003ca247d68688

Sports Camp Challenges Veterans

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Marine veteran Joyce Ralph sometimes stays at home in Massachusetts instead of going for a bike ride or doing other things she likes to do. She feels too anxious because of her post-traumatic stress disorder. Army veteran Paul Miosek sometimes feels isolated at his home in New York. No one else he […]

August 12, 2016

‘Boot Camp’ Prepares Military Vets for College

To prepare post-9/11 veterans to the demands of an academic environment, the Warrior-Scholar Project was launched, and the University of Arizona is this week hosting more than a dozen veterans in an immersive, academic boot camp. Earlier this year, the Warrior-Scholar Project named the UA and others, including Georgetown University, Harvard University and Yale University, […]

August 12, 2016

African-American

ASALH Gearing Up for Panel on Carter G. Woodson’s Life, Legacy

The Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), founded by Dr. Carter G. Woodson, will assemble a panel of speakers to discuss the importance of Woodson’s life and legacy on Sept. 9.

August 11, 2016

Dr. Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham

Trump’s Suggestion of ‘Rigged’ Election Could Ignite Resentment in Politics

David C. Wilson, a political science professor, expounds on matters of race and resentment in American politics in a new paper titled “Perceived electoral malfeasance and resentment over the election of Barack Obama.”

August 11, 2016

081216_politics

Critiquing the Anti-Blackness in Mentoring

By fixing a CRT (critical race theory) lens over mentoring programs, practitioners can recognize and maintain a focus on issues that plague Black youth in economically blighted communities.

August 11, 2016

Dr. Torie Weiston-Serdan

VFW Scholarship Aids Veterans and Families at Minnesota

Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5039 recently created a scholarship for veterans and their families at the University of Minnesota, Morris. New for 2016–17, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 5039 of Morris Scholarship has been designated for a veteran, the son or daughter of a veteran, or the grandson or granddaughter of a veteran […]

August 11, 2016

tedstorckjacquelinejohnsonbill_rickmeyer

Benefit for Disabled Vets Begins in November

By Kellie Lunney | The Office of Personnel Management on Friday will publish the final rule implementing a law that gives new federal employees who are disabled veterans the equivalent of a full year’s sick leave up front to go to their medical appointments. The 2015 Wounded Warriors Federal Leave Act gives 104 hours of […]

August 11, 2016

Protect Higher Education for Our Veterans

Following more than a decade of fighting asymmetric conflicts on multiple fronts, many veterans today face an entirely new dilemma on a very different terrain. While transitioning from military to civilian life, millions of veterans consider taking advantage of their GI Bill benefits to further their education. The Post-9/11 GI Bill — enacted in 2008 […]

August 11, 2016

Injured Marine Finds Healing in Woodworking

Retired Gunnery Sgt. Ernesto Aquino was wounded 12 years ago during his fifth deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan and came home with back injuries that left him wheelchair bound with post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury. He was close to taking his life, but the thought of his children without a father held him […]

August 11, 2016

B88155151Z_1_20160804104551_000GL8OI0TK_3-0_r900x493

Increasing Adjunct Faculty

By Ashley A. Smith | Student success initiatives tend to work better on campuses where faculty members are engaged. So Achieving the Dream, the nonprofit organization that advocates for institutional improvement at community colleges, is unveiling a new initiative that will help part-time faculty members become more active in their colleges’ reform efforts, with the […]

August 11, 2016

072616_workshop-300×167

Not a fish tale: Eating fatty fish is good for your health, doc says

There’s no question that we Americans don’t have enough fish in our diets. As little fish as we eat, we consume even less fatty fish, which is a bigger tragedy. Fatty fish — herring, sardines, salmon, tuna, trout and others — are our only source of fish oil (outside of supplementation). Doctors are particularly concerned […]

August 11, 2016

01arcticfish.adapt.1190.1

Clinton v. Trump Workforce Policy

The upcoming election promises to fuel both federal and local interest in workforce regulation, as the leading candidates from both parties have focused their campaigns addressing inequality through a variety of measures, including changes to the laws governing the workforce.

August 11, 2016

Former Swimmer, University Reach Settlement in Hazing Case

BOWLING GREEN, Ky. — A former Western Kentucky University swimmer has reached a settlement in a lawsuit in which he claimed to have been hazed and assaulted by his teammates. Attorney Vanessa Cantley was quoted by the Daily News as saying that her client Collin Craig had reached a confidential resolution with all parties named […]

August 10, 2016

California Lawmaker Drops Lawsuits in Religious School Bill

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — A California lawmaker announced Wednesday he is removing a contentious provision of his bill that would have allowed LGBT students to more easily sue religious schools for discrimination, conceding defeat to religious colleges that had launched a campaign against it. The measure would have eliminated a longstanding exemption from state anti-discrimination laws […]

August 10, 2016

JOANNE A. EPPS

JOANNE A. EPPS has been named provost of Temple University. She is dean of the Beasley School of Law at Temple. Epps earned a bachelor’s from Trinity College in Connecticut and a juris doctor from Yale University.

August 10, 2016

California Federation of Teachers Calls for ED to Delist ACCJC as Accreditor

A coalition of two California unions and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) filed a new complaint against the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges (ACCJC).

August 10, 2016

081116_teachers

Gap Year Students: Another Form of Diversity

The recent announcement that First Daughter Malia Obama would be taking a “Gap Year” before starting Harvard University in 2017 has shed new light (and increased popularity) on a path typically taken by students in Europe and Australia.

August 10, 2016