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Western Governors Growing Despite Dispute

Last September, Western Governors University was told that it may owe up to $712 million to the federal government. The fine was recommended after an auditor’s report concluded the school was offering what amount to “correspondence courses” rather than courses that meet all the specific criteria needed to qualify for financial aid eligibility under Title IV of […]

March 6, 2018

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Competency-Based Learning Has Precedence

The notion of competency-based learning is nothing new. It has been adopted by several online colleges, charter schools, districts and for-profit educators. As a measure of how mainstream the concept is, even some states have implemented competency-based learning standards for their high school students. In 2010, Michigan passed seat-time waiver legislation, allowing districts that would […]

March 6, 2018

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Combat to Classroom: Navigating the Transition

Since the Iraq and Afghanistan invasions in 2003, more than 500,000 service members have entered into post-secondary education. While the military offers financial support to veterans transitioning from combat to classroom, it doesn’t address one recurring issue that student vets face: Self-esteem while in the classroom. “I did feel a bit nervous competing with people […]

March 6, 2018

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TV Ad Aims to Pressure Trump on Transgender Military Service

WASHINGTON — Activist groups are turning to television ads — including on President Donald Trump’s go-to station, Fox News — to pressure the White House into allowing transgender people to keep serving in the military. Trump has vowed to ban transgender troops from serving. He’ll be able to see the 30-second commercial as of Friday, […]

March 6, 2018

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Free Tuition Lures Tennessee Guard Members

The Tennessee STRONG (Support, Training, and Renewing Opportunity for National Guardsmen) Act, which went into effect in in the summer of 2017, reimburses 100 percent of tuition for Tennessee National Guardsmen working towards a first time associate or bachelor’s degree, and has caused quite a buzz amongst the state’s service members. Read More

March 6, 2018

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New Hollins Leader Champions Women and Diversity

From the beginning, Dr. Pareena G. Lawrence set out to empower women and defy limitations set for them, especially in the gendered society of her home country, India. Decades after finding her voice and confidence at an all-girls high school, she has become the first female president of Hollins University.

March 5, 2018

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Shape of Things to Come? Diversity Shines at 90th Academy Awards

I covered the Academy Awards on the red carpet in person in 1986. It was the year of the Spielberg-directed version of Alice Walker’s “The Color Purple,” a film with 11 nominations, Oprah and so many Black stars that it was practically “The Black Panther” of its day. Fast forward to 2018 and the 90th Oscars, and the evolution is finally taking hold across the board.

March 5, 2018

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When Being ‘Woke’ Is Not Enough

In such polarized times, it is not surprising that on college campuses all over the nation, students are protesting, demonstrating and taking every opportunity to voice their concerns to administrators about campus climate, national issues and how their institutions respond to them. I find it exciting.

March 5, 2018

Marshall University Researcher Wins Award to Study Obesity

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. – The National Institutes of Health has awarded a $10.7 million grant to a Marshall University researcher to study obesity and related conditions. The five-year grant was awarded to Uma Sundaram, vice dean for research at Marshall’s School of Medicine and a board-certified gastroenterologist. Sundaram will be the principal investigator and program director […]

March 5, 2018

Tennessee Museum Donates Record Collection to University

JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. – A Tennessee museum has donated more than 3,500 vinyl LPs and 1,200 78-rpm records to East Tennessee State University. The donation was given to the Bluegrass, Old Time and Country Music Studies program in the university’s Department of Appalachian Studies for preservation and study. The rare, vintage records were donated from […]

March 5, 2018

Ex-Costa Rican President to Speak at Virginia College

BRIDGEWATER, Va. — Former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, winner of the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize, will speak on “Peace and Justice in the 21st Century” at Bridgewater College on March 15. Arias served as president of Costa Rica from 1986 to 1990 and 2006 to 2010. When he took office, civil wars were raging […]

March 5, 2018

Most Promising Places to Work in Student Affairs

13 Vibrant, Diverse, Supportive Higher Ed Workplaces

March 5, 2018

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Trump Doesn’t Care

Republicans in Washington are so far proving they can’t be taken seriously to improve the nation’s health or health care system. After first submitting a budget that aims to force austerity on Medicaid and Medicare recipients to pay for last year’s tax cuts that are going largely to corporations and the wealthy, the Trump administration has now followed […]

March 5, 2018

Nurse Awarded $3.8M for Racial Harassment

HONOLULU — A Honolulu nurse has been awarded nearly $4 million after an image of a noose was taped to her locker and a racist note was left in her hospital mailbox. A jury awarded Ellen Harris, a former Queen’s Medical Center nurse, $630,000 in general damages and $3.2 million in punitive damages after finding […]

March 5, 2018

California Poll: Without Penalty, 1 in 5 Would Skip Insurance

Without the threat of a tax penalty, one in five Californians would not have signed up for health insurance this year, Harvard University researchers discovered as a part of a survey released Thursday. One in five equates to roughly 378,000 state residents, said Dr. John Hsu, an associate professor of health care policy at Harvard […]

March 5, 2018

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Precision Maps Reveal Disparities Across Africa

A new scientific study finds that while nearly all nations in Africa have at least one region where children’s health is improving, not a single country is expected to end childhood malnutrition by 2030, an objective of the relevant United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG). The study, covering 2000 to 2015, and another on years […]

March 5, 2018

HHS Creates Religious Freedom Office

The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) has announced the creation of a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division in their Office for Civil Rights. The division aims to address concerns over sensitive subjects such as birth control, abortions, and treatment of the LGBTQ community. In addition to providing a center for complaints regarding […]

March 5, 2018

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Why Does Vaccine-Autism Myth Persist?

Anti-vaccination headlines—like “HPV vaccine leaves another 17-year-old-girl paralyzed”—populate the Internet. That, and “Mom researches vaccines, discovers vaccination horrors, goes vaccine free,” are just a few examples of the fake science news stories shared this month on Facebook. If you are a parent on social media, you’ve likely seen many posts just like these. Maybe you’ve even […]

March 5, 2018