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Last University Furls Mississippi’s Confederate-themed Flag

JACKSON, Miss. ― The last of Mississippi’’s eight public universities has stopped displaying the state flag that prominently features the Confederate battle emblem. Delta State University President Bill LaForge announced the decision Thursday. He said the university acted because state government hasn’t moved to change the flag. The university called for a different state banner […]

November 6, 2016

Vandals Deface University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association Sign

MINNEAPOLIS ― Vandals defaced a sign promoting the University of Minnesota’s Muslim Students Association. Someone scrawled “ISIS” over a hand-painted mural on a bridge connecting the east and west banks of the Twin Cities campus. The acronym is a reference to the Islamic State group. The Minnesota chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is […]

November 6, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Case of Professor Accused of Genocide Ends with Deportation

BALTIMORE ― Uncertainty surrounds the status of professor Leopold Munyakazi, who briefly taught French at Goucher College and was deported to Rwanda under international charges of genocide. His attorney in Northern Virginia, Ofelia Calderon, doesn’t know where he is being held and whether he has an attorney or trial date. “If there are not public […]

November 6, 2016

Lane Community College Instructor Who Was Stalked Gets Payout

EUGENE, Ore. ― Lane Community College has settled a lawsuit filed by an instructor who was stalked by a male student who told her he had links to neo-Nazis, agreeing to pay the instructor $175,000 and improve its campus security plans. Nadia Raza told The Register-Guard she filed the lawsuit as a last resort, after […]

November 6, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Jeb Bush to join Texas A&M School of Government Faculty

COLLEGE STATION, Texas ― Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush is returning to his native state to teach a 10-day elective course on governmental leadership at Texas A&M University. The university announced Friday that Bush’s class will begin Jan. 6 and conclude before the regular spring semester begins. He’s joining the faculty at the university’s Bush […]

November 6, 2016

Rutgers University: Former Student Stabs 3 people, Including Himself

PISCATAWAY, N.J. ― A former student at Rutgers University returned to its business school and stabbed a faculty member, another student and then himself on Friday, officials said. The university sent out an alert just before 3 p.m. saying there had been a stabbing at the business school and telling people to avoid the area […]

November 6, 2016

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University of Oregon Professor Who Donned Blackface at Party Apologizes

EUGENE, Ore. ― A University of Oregon law professor who donned blackface as part of a doctor costume at her Halloween party has apologized, saying she only wanted to stimulate dialogue about race relations in America. Nancy Shurtz said in an apology released Friday that she wore a white coast, stethoscope and black face paint […]

November 6, 2016

For Rolling Stone, ‘Worst Nightmare’ Continues

RICHMOND, Va. ― Days after Rolling Stone magazine published a shocking 9,000-word story about a brutal gang rape at the University of Virginia in November 2014, the magazine’s editors received an email just before 2 a.m. with “Our worst nightmare” in the subject line. They needed to run a retraction, the reporter said. Instead, Rolling […]

November 6, 2016

Faculty & Staff

Alabama State University President Gwendolyn Boyd Says Suspension ‘Disappointing’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. ― The Alabama State University Board of Trustees has voted to suspend President Gwendolyn Boyd, saying it had lost confidence in her. WSFA-TV reports that Boyd called the events that led to her suspension Friday “disappointing” and said she was surprised by the developments. When asked if she thinks she’ll ever be ASU’s […]

November 6, 2016

Quit Scaring Students About Debt

ELENA Calderon is a first-generation college student who graduated from Eastern Washington University with two degrees and without debt. This isn’t the story you’re used to reading about. The media are full of horrifying anecdotes, highlighting an unemployed art major who left college owing $100,000. State and federal legislators cite student debt as a national […]

November 4, 2016

Wounded Warrior Puts Experience to Work

A U.S. Marine who was wounded by an IED while on duty in Iraq is putting his military experience to work in the private sector, News Radio 1200 WOAI reports. Purple Heart recipient Matt Kinney is the militiary adviser and Assistant Director of Semper K9 Assistance Dogs, a new non profit which has opened in […]

November 4, 2016

Cadets and Vets Meet to Teach Leadership

Nineteen years ago, the American Veterans Center began hosting an annual conference to honor World War Two veterans. At the time, the event was small and quiet, attended by just a handful of people. Then the focus was on remembering past conflicts. Time and events, though, started to shift the event’s focus. As the wars […]

November 4, 2016

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Hiram College to Offer Three-Year Degree

HIRAM, Ohio – Hiram College students will be able to graduate in three years and save money under a new program that includes summer courses. The 3-year option will be offered, beginning in fall 2017, in 19 academic programs at the private liberal arts college in Portage County. “We are responding to the public’s call […]

November 4, 2016

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Military Academies Aren’t What They Used to Be

When Zainab Salami’s parents sent her from a public school in Texas to the Randolph-Macon Academy, a 124-year-old military school in western Virginia, her only frame of reference was a Disney Channel movie. “I thought it would be like Cadet Kelly,” she said. In the 2002 film, the main character, a free-spirited artist type played […]

November 4, 2016

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Democrats Eye Debt-Free College Push in Next Congress

Election Day is still looming, but a group of Democrats has already laid plans to start the next legislative year with a proposal that would allow students to graduate college without debt. About two dozen congressional Democrats have met for more than a year, with discussions intensifying over the last month. Democratic presidential nominee Hillary […]

November 4, 2016

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India Firm Won’t Buy 2 U.S. Campuses

BOSTON — After facing scrutiny from state officials in Massachusetts, a chain of colleges based in India has canceled its plans to buy two U.S. for-profit colleges. The Amity University chain filed paperwork in July proposing to buy the New England Institute of Art, located near Boston, and the Art Institute of New York City, […]

November 4, 2016

For-Profit Closes School in Mid-Day

Missouri College is drawing headlines and controversy as administrators sent home students early during a school day this week, and then informed them the school would be closing immediately. Officials say the closure is a result of financial problems faced by its owning corporation, Weston Educational Inc., which also closed other campuses it owns. Read […]

November 4, 2016

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Heritage College Closes

WICHITA, Kan. – Andria Bryant is still in shock following the abrupt closure of the college she’s been attending for nearly a year. “All the doors are locked. Everything is cleaned out and there’s just a note on the front doors,” she said. Following the likes of Wright Career College, Regency Beauty Institute, Marinello School […]

November 4, 2016

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