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Academics
Military Education: A Conversation
Military education has been part of Colorado State University’s land-grant mission since its founding in 1870, and CSU was one of the first in the state to begin commissioning Air Force officers after World War II. CSU is also one of the best universities in the nation for veterans who want to continue their education […]
May 11, 2017
Other News
Reservists, Guardsmen Wait for Benefits
Nearly 4,700 reservists and guardsmen have been unfairly barred from earning post-9/11 GI Bill benefits available to active-duty servicemembers, veterans advocates say, triggering delays that will likely defer their education for years. The issue lies with the Pentagon’s use of Title 10, Section 12304b, a specific deployment authorization used by the Defense Department to increase […]
May 11, 2017
STEM
Study: Teacher Prep Programs Failing to Thoroughly Cover Subject Matter
An NCTQ report concludes that too many teacher prep programs at the undergraduate level don’t demand enough of prospective high school teachers, particularly when it comes to teaching specific topics within the broad fields of science and social studies.
May 11, 2017
Students
Puerto Rico’s Financial Crisis Wallops University System
Puerto Rico’s fiscal control board is proposing to cut the university system’s budget by nearly half by 2021. As a result, the stakes are higher than ever for UPR’s future.
May 10, 2017
Students
Protests, Boos Greet DeVos at Bethune-Cookman Commencement
Ever since officials announced the choice for this year’s commencement speaker at the historically Black institution would be Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, the university and the town where it’s based have been roiled by controversy and protests.
May 10, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Duke Professor Resigns After Criticizing Diversity Training
DURHAM, N.C. — A professor of Catholic theology at Duke University’s divinity school has reportedly resigned in the face of disciplinary action following comments about the value of diversity training. The News & Observer reports another professor, Thomas Pfau, said Tuesday that 61-year-old Paul Griffiths resigned of his own volition, effective next year. Griffiths responded […]
May 10, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Holy Cross College Administrator Loses Job Over Errant Email
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A Holy Cross College administrator is out of his job just days after mistakenly sending an email to students describing dismal finances for the northern Indiana school. Holy Cross interim President Rev. David Tyson said in a Monday email to students and employees that Kelly Jordan was no longer a college […]
May 10, 2017
Students
Puerto Rico University Students Vote to Keep Strike Going
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A strike that has shuttered Puerto Rico’s largest public university for more than a month will continue indefinitely in defiance of a court order, students decided Wednesday. Thousands of students approved extending the strike at a mass meeting where they also demanded an audit of Puerto Rico’s $73 billion public […]
May 10, 2017
Students
4 Johns Hopkins Students Overdose at Fraternity Party
BALTIMORE — Officials say four Johns Hopkins University undergraduates were hospitalized for apparent opioid overdoses following a fraternity house party. The school mentioned the overdoses in a public safety advisory emailed to its student body Tuesday evening. According to the email, the Delta Phi fraternity has been suspended by its national organization and is not […]
May 10, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Fact Check: Is Sexual Assault a “Pre-Existing” Condition?
Prior to the passage of the American Health Care Act in the U.S. House of Representatives on 4 May 2017, critics warned that the bill would specifically put sexual assault and rape survivors at risk because it would list their circumstances as being “pre-existing conditions” subject to either price gouging or disqualification from healthcare insurance […]
May 10, 2017
Other News
Obamacare Premiums Set to Rise
Health insurers are asking for sharp increases in the cost of their Obamacare plans next year, thanks to instability in the law’s coverage markets that’s been compounded by the Trump administration. In Maryland, Virginia and Connecticut — the first states to make filings public — premiums for Affordable Care Act plans will rise more than […]
May 10, 2017
Policies
R.I. May Ease Rules on Sunscreen in Schools
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Rhode Island lawmakers are considering a proposal that would allow students to take sunscreen into schools without a doctor’s note. The state House of Representatives voted unanimously to pass the bill Tuesday. The bill now moves to the Senate. Concerns about skin cancer have led several states to loosen restrictions on sunscreen […]
May 10, 2017
Disparities
NIH Selects Diverse Medical Researchers
The National Institutes of Health has selected 42 talented and diverse students, representing 35 U.S.-accredited universities, for the sixth class of its Medical Research Scholars Program (MRSP). The MRSP received a record number of applications during the 2017-2018 application cycle. The 42 selected participants consist of 39 medical, two dental, and one veterinary student; 48 […]
May 10, 2017
Policies
New Law Extends VA Choice
Veterans will continue to have access to private health-care facilities closer to their homes with quicker appointments, as provided by the Veterans Choice Program Improvement Act. President Donald Trump, on April 19, signed a measure extending the program, which allows health care for service-connected medical conditions and use of funding for it until it is […]
May 10, 2017
Other News
Obama Hopes “Courage” Will Save Healthcare
Former President Barack Obama accepted the John F. Kennedy “Profile in Courage” Award in Boston on Sunday, where he spoke broadly about the healthcare debate gripping the country. In his first remarks since the House passed a bill repealing and replacing Obama’s signature healthcare law, the former president ruminated on the idea of political courage. […]
May 10, 2017
Policies
McConnell Opens Health Group to Women
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has invited all Republicans to join with what’s been an all-male working group of GOP senators to craft a health care bill, after facing criticism that women were being excluded. “McConnell stood up and said, ‘Please come and participate,’” Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., said in an interview, […]
May 10, 2017
Disparities
Tuskegee Study Descendants Gather
TUSKEGEE, Ala— Decades later, it’s still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama — even if you’re among their descendants, lighting candles in their memory. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South withheld treatment for unsuspecting men infected with a sexually […]
May 10, 2017
Students
DeVos Taking Center Stage at Bethune-Cookman
Controversial U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos is scheduled to deliver a commencement address Wednesday at Bethune-Cookman University that is certain to be heavily scrutinized.
May 9, 2017
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