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Leadership & Policy
Colleges and Universities Pool Resources to Curb Costs
Efforts to build alliances are especially growing among smaller private colleges that are heavily dependent on tuition and whose revenues and enrollment have stalled.
October 18, 2017
Students
Two Higher Education Goals Deferred
An expert notes that some higher education goals have seemingly arbitrary timelines and are inattentive to the range of diversity in U.S. populations as well as their varying levels of degree attainment.
October 18, 2017
Students
Strategy Offered to Turn Rising Tide of Segregated Schools
A new policy briefing from the National Coalition on School Diversity suggests that schools will see better results from using policies that take both race and socioeconomic status into account.
October 18, 2017
Students
Boston College Students Walk Out After Racial Incidents
BOSTON — Hundreds of students at Boston College have walked out of their classes to protest recent instances of racism on campus, including two posters that were defaced to say “Black Lives don’t Matter.” Video footage shows the students filing onto a campus lawn around midday Wednesday and chanting, “Black lives matter.” The group Eradicate […]
October 18, 2017
Students
University of Florida President: Security Cost for Spencer Speech ‘Unfair’
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A day before white nationalist Richard Spencer is scheduled to speak at the University of Florida, its president affirmed his belief in free speech but said the security costs of holding such an event at a public university put an unfair burden on taxpayers. In an interview with The Associated Press on […]
October 18, 2017
Students
University of Colorado to Eliminate Course Fees in Fall 2018
BOULDER, Colo. — The University of Colorado is eliminating all course and program fees starting in the fall of 2018. The Daily Camera reports that the eliminated fees will collectively save students $8.4 million per year. Chancellor Phil DiStefano announced the commitment to lowering costs for students at the university’s annual State of the Campus […]
October 18, 2017
Students
Yale Boosts Transparency Effort by Releasing More Budget Data
NEW HAVEN, Conn. —Yale University is moving to become as transparent with its budget information as other private universities. The Ivy League school in New Haven, Connecticut, with a $27 billion endowment compiled a 93-page budget overview for the Yale community earlier this year. That was triple the number of pages in last year’s 28-page […]
October 18, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Gender Disparities in Medicine
In the era of booming feminism whereby women demand rightful recognition in a wide array of aspects, the field of medicine has to face the facts. Until roughly two decades ago, aside from differences in reproductive systems, the male body has been the universal model for anatomy – as there was little knowledge that gender […]
October 18, 2017
Disparities
How Birth Control Order Affects Women’s Health
Trump’s birth control order, announced on Friday, is devastating news. Previously, under a mandate from the Affordable Care Act, most employers were required to provide their employees with birth control coverage without copayments. On Friday, Trump rolled back that mandate. Now the Departments of Health and Human Services, Treasury, and Labor will make it easier […]
October 18, 2017
Disparities
Program Supports Women of Color Who Breastfeed
When Angela Mercado gave birth to her daughter nine weeks ago, she set the intention of breastfeeding for one year – a decision she felt confident in after meeting that goal with her son, now 3. Mercado gave birth to her first child in Germany during a military deployment. She recalled receiving advice from fellow […]
October 18, 2017
Disparities
D.C. Residents Protest Food Deserts
For long-time Ward 8 resident Delois McNeal, 70, the weekly task of restocking her refrigerator is a challenge. “I have to walk across the street to catch the W3 bus,” McNeal said. “It’s a shuttle bus that runs once every half an hour. If you miss that, you have to wait another half an hour […]
October 18, 2017
Disparities
Indian Health Deal Goes to Man Linked to Accusations
A company chosen to potentially operate emergency departments at four Native American hospitals in the Great Plains is led by a man whose former company paid $10 million to settle allegations of submitting false claims to Medicare, Medicaid and other government programs. John Shufeldt is the chief executive officer and chief medical officer of Tribal […]
October 18, 2017
Disparities
Senator Offers Bill to Repeal Opioid Law
Legislation introduced by a top Senate Democrat would repeal an Obama-era bill that critics say has dramatically restricted the ability of the Drug Enforcement Administration to crack down on opioid distributors suspected of wrongdoing. Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), the ranking member on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, said her legislation is being […]
October 18, 2017
Other News
Hurricane Exposed “Inequalities and Injustices”
In rural and impoverished areas of Puerto Rico, a new day means a new search for food and safe water as the humanitarian crisis there continues to escalate. More than three weeks after Hurricane Maria, more than a quarter of homes in the U.S. territory lack clean water, about 85 percent are without electricity, and […]
October 18, 2017
Other News
Trump Backs Away from Deal on Obamacare
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan deal from two U.S. senators to stabilize Obamacare by restoring subsidies to health insurers ran into trouble on Wednesday with President Donald Trump sending mixed signals and the speaker of the House indicating no interest in taking it up. The deal announced on Tuesday by Republican Lamar Alexander and Democrat […]
October 18, 2017
Students
Landry Leans on Experience to Lead ACE
American College of Education (ACE) president and interim provost Dr. Shawntel Landry leads a nontraditional and unique institution, where women account for 72 percent of administrative or staff roles.
October 17, 2017
Students
ETS: ‘Targeted and Tailored’ Strategies Needed to Close Achievement Gaps
An Educational Testing Service report states that racial and ethnic gaps in educational attainment will persist well into the 21st century unless “targeted and tailored” strategies are implemented for various underrepresented groups.
October 17, 2017
Students
Beyond an Uncritical Attachment to Free Speech
Campuses need to aspire to free speech while moving beyond an uncritical attachment to it as a salve for an assortment of difficult conversations, and to be especially critical of free-speech claims that promote speech that is willfully uninformed or intentionally harmful and hateful.
October 17, 2017
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