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Veterans
Canada Enhances Its Supports for Vets and Families
Whenever a Canadian serves in Canada’s armed forces, their whole family serves with them. That is why the Government of Canada has made it a priority to not only improve benefits and services for our nation’s Veterans, but for their families as well. Sherry Romanado, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate […]
September 15, 2017
Policy
Why Are Universities Buying Military Arms?
Sending an ominous signal to student protest movements nationwide, universities across the US are once again able to equip their police forces with castoff military gear, tying them ever more intimately into the military-industrial complex. In August, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced at a Fraternal Order of Police convention that Program 1033 would resume providing […]
September 15, 2017
Campus Climate
AAC&U Issues College Grants to Promote Racial Healing
Hamline University is one of 10 colleges awarded a multi-year Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to create a center for racial healing.
September 14, 2017
Students
Expert Wants Institutions to Track Racial Data in Title IX Proceedings
According to Ben Trachtenberg, associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, current conversations around Title IX enforcement often skip over one key element: the impact of racial bias on disciplinary outcomes at colleges and universities.
September 14, 2017
Students
Conservative Professors: Where’s Our Inclusion on Campus?
In the academy, liberal or far-left professors outnumber their ideologically opposite colleagues nearly 5 to 1, based on a UCLA survey. If we promote diversity in race, gender and religion within the student body, shouldn’t diversity of thought be just as important?
September 14, 2017
Students
UC Irvine Chancellor Apologizes After School Rescinds Admission Offers
SAN DIEGO — The chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, says the school has readmitted most of the 500 students whose admission offers were rescinded last month. Chancellor Howard Gillman apologized Wednesday for the “unacceptable distress” caused to students after the campus abruptly pulled the offers for the current fall semester. The Los Angeles […]
September 14, 2017
Students
White Nationalist Posters Found on Kansas State Campus
TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas State is speaking out after posters promoting white nationalism were plastered around on campus. The Manhattan Mercury reports that university spokesman Steve Logback says the posters that appeared Wednesday don’t reflect Kansas State values and are unwelcome. Student body president Jack Ayres said in a tweet that the student government is […]
September 14, 2017
Students
Notre Dame Policy to Require On-campus Living for 3 Years
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame plans to enact a policy next fall requiring all newly enrolled undergraduates to live on campus during their freshman, sophomore and junior years. University officials told the South Bend Tribune the goal is to strengthen the school’s residential nature. But not all students are happy with […]
September 14, 2017
Students
Dowell Taylor Named Interim Band Director at Jackson State
JACKSON, Miss. — Dowell Taylor has been named interim director of bands at Jackson State University. President Dr. William B. Bynum Jr. said Thursday that Taylor will officially assume the role Sept. 18. The Clarion-Ledger reports the university fired O’Neill Sanford as band director just before the football season began, saying it was “undergoing evaluations […]
September 14, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
We Can Do More
Upon traversing the U.S. 30 bridge from Illinois into Clinton, Iowa, motorists encounter a small but bright sign designating the city as a Home Base Iowa community. I was such a motorist over Labor Day weekend, and though I crossed that bridge countless times over almost two decades, this was the first I noticed the […]
September 14, 2017
Academics
Some Faculty Critical of Purdue’s Online Plan
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.— Purdue University’s plans for a new online school are drawing criticism from some faculty members. The proposed school, called NewU, would emerge from Purdue’s purchase of for-profit Kaplan University, which was announced five months ago, the Journal & Courier reported. Some Purdue faculty members who question those plans say they’re worried about […]
September 14, 2017
Other News
V.M.I.: Confederate Statues Will Stay Put
Leaders of Virginia Military Institute said Tuesday that the school will keep its Confederate statues and consider adding more historical context in the aftermath of last month’s violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. At a VMI board of visitors meeting Tuesday, VMI Superintendent J.H. Binford Peay III defended the school’s traditions while declaring that “there’s […]
September 14, 2017
Academics
High-Tech Grad School Opens in NYC
NEW YORK — The city’s quest to make itself a legitimate rival to Silicon Valley as a high-tech hub has long bumped up against some harsh realities, among them the fact it hasn’t had a top-tier technology school pumping out the next generation of entrepreneurs and engineers. A potential answer to that problem, a new […]
September 14, 2017
Other News
Loan Forgiveness for For-Profit Fraud Stalled at DOE
WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of former students who say they were swindled by for-profit colleges are being left in limbo as the Trump administration delays action on requests for loan forgiveness, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press. The Education Department is sitting on more than 65,000 unapproved claims as it rewrites […]
September 14, 2017
Other News
Under DeVos, For-Profit Stocks Promise High Returns
For-profit education companies finally seem to be winning their fight against the Obama-era regulations that pushed two behemoths, Corinthian Colleges and ITT Tech, into bankruptcy, while the others saw their stock prices and enrollment plunging. The Department of Education under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has delayed implementation of gainful employment rules, withdrawn key federal student […]
September 14, 2017
Other News
Senator Wants Some Bases Closed
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — U.S. Sen. Jack Reed said he wants Congress to authorize a new round of military base closings. The Rhode Island Democrat filed an amendment with Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain to the Senate’s defense authorization bill for fiscal 2018 on Monday to authorize a round of base closures and realignments, starting in […]
September 14, 2017
Other News
MOOCS — Harbingers of Major Change in Learning
Technology has long been used to improve how we learn, but today’s digital advances, particularly with social media, have taken learning in powerful new — and for some — entirely unexpected directions. The vast co-created commons of the Internet have long been seen as a way for the connected and motivated to learn on their […]
September 14, 2017
Students
West Virginia State Working to Add New Engineering Degrees
West Virginia State University is likely to be one step closer to starting its stand-alone engineering program.
September 13, 2017
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