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This is the Navy’s Plan for Launching Its New Community College
In February, the Department of the Navy released Education for Seapower Strategy 2020, a joint Navy-Marine Corps strategy to boost the intellectual and technological capabilities of our force. One of the key elements of that strategy is to create a new United States Naval Community College, which will dramatically expand educational opportunities for our enlisted force. […]
April 24, 2020
Other News
Army Eyes Permanent Shift to Distance Learning for Some PME Courses
U.S. Army training officials are studying how the service’s increased dependence on distance learning during the novel coronavirus pandemic may become a permanent part of leader education. The service has focused heavily on keeping new soldiers moving through the initial entry training centers and just resumed shipping recruits to Basic Combat Training on Monday after a two-week […]
April 24, 2020
Opinion
Disruption and Digital Generational Literacy: Are You Ready?
Recently, I gave the Keynote Address at the Her Future Global Summit with some of the most influential leaders from across the globe. One of the major questions addressed was, “How do we understand digital inclusion across generations and leverage multigenerational inputs in the COVID-19 era?”
April 24, 2020
Other News
Lawmakers Pass Second Emergency Package to Protect Student Veterans from Coronavirus Losses
Congress on Tuesday finalized a second GI Bill fix for student veterans whose studies were upended by the coronavirus pandemic, sending the package to the White House to be signed into law in coming days. The measure follows legislation last month which guaranteed students would not see any disruption in their education benefit payouts because of universities’ sudden switch […]
April 24, 2020
COVID-19
What You Can Do to Recruit and Retain Diverse Faculty and Staff During COVID-19
Don’t want all of your time, resources and efforts wasted on your previous diversity recruitment efforts? Join this webinar for COVID-19 specific guidelines and strategies to help ensure you continue and improve diversity recruitment efforts for faculty and staff, while maintaining your retention strategies that support your diverse faculty and staff and support the mission […]
April 24, 2020
COVID-19
COVID-19 Impacts FAFSA Completion as Deadlines are Extended
Amid all of the challenges facing college students this year due to COVID-19 related closings and cancellations, one of the major considerations for those already enrolled, or in the process of enrolling, is financial aid. At this point in the school year, continuing students and incoming freshmen are in the process of filling out the […]
April 23, 2020
News Roundup
Accrediting Body Asks For ‘Critical Flexibility’ in Distance Education Review
The Council of Regional Accrediting Commissions on Tuesday submitted a letter to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos urging the education department to extend its temporary guidance permitting accreditors to waive distance education review requirements. “The decisions and plans colleges, universities, and systems need to make in these uncertain times should not be further burdened by unnecessary […]
April 23, 2020
Asian American Pacific Islander
Scientific Organizations Write to Congress Denouncing Anti-Asian Sentiment
More than four dozen scientific organizations have written to congressional leaders supporting resolutions to denounce anti-Asian discrimination as related to COVID-19. “Our societies have been concerned by news reports that individuals of Asian ancestry are increasingly subject to stigma, physical attack, or suspicion due to the potential origins of the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2,” said the […]
April 23, 2020
COVID-19
U of Maine Offers In-State Tuition to Students Impacted by College Closures
The University of Maine system will offer in-state tuition and expedited transfers to displaced U.S. college students whose institutions have suffered permanent closures due to the coronavirus pandemic and the economic crisis that has ensued. Students from all states can apply for the program titled “The Maine Welcome.” “College instability has never been a bigger […]
April 23, 2020
Students
Maintaining Hope Despite the Uncertain Ending of My Doctoral Journey
As I come to terms with our current reality under the COVID-19 pandemic, I can’t shake the feelings of uncertainty. Beyond the academic job market being very competitive, the looming economic impact this crisis will have in higher education makes it seem like this is the worst time to be seeking a job, especially on the tenure track.
April 23, 2020
Students
Supporting Foster Care Youth in College
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) (2018), approximately 50% of the 443,000 youth in the foster care system are children of color.
April 23, 2020
COVID-19
How Universities Can Recruit and Retain Diverse Faculty During the Pandemic
As universities across the country consider hiring freezes, how can they continue to recruit and retain diverse faculty amid the coronavirus?
April 22, 2020
News Roundup
Stanford U Will Review Requests to Rename Building With Ties to Eugenics
Stanford University said on Monday it will review requests to rename a building that has ties to eugenics, reported the Stanford Daily. The building in question is Jordan Hall, which was named in 1917 for Dr. David Starr Jordan, Stanford’s founding president and a leader of the eugenics movement. The movement promoted the belief that […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Donald Kennedy, Former Stanford U President, Dies of COVID-19
Donald Kennedy, a neurobiologist who became the eighth president of Stanford in 1980, died Tuesday of COVID-19, said the university. He was 88. Kennedy was president of Stanford for 12 years, during which time he oversaw its transformation into one of the nation’s top research universities, the institution said. From 2000 to 2008, he was […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
$4 Million Grant For the American Indian College Fund From the Mellon Foundation
The American Indian College Fund will receive $4 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support college students impacted by the coronavirus pandemic. The fund, which invests in native students and their college education, said it will distribute the money to its network of tribal colleges so they can provide resources to support new and returning students in […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
California State U at Fullerton Will Start Fall Classes Online
Due to the coronavirus pandemic, California State University at Fullerton says it will begin the fall 2020 semester online and resume in-person instruction when it is safe to do so, reported The Orange County Register. “We are assuming in the fall we will be virtual,” said provost Pamella Oliver at a virtual town hall for […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Franklin U to Permanently Close its Urbana U Branch Campus
Ohio’s Franklin University will permanently close its Urbana University branch campus in May due to stresses caused by the coronavirus pandemic, said the latter in a statement on its website. Urbana will stop enrollments at the end of the 2020 spring semester and academic programming will be moved to Franklin University. Urbana University students will […]
April 22, 2020
COVID-19
Davidson College Offers Deferred Payments For Upcoming Fall Semester
Davidson college said it is offering all students, except seniors, the option to defer paying fall 2020 semester tuitions and other fees until August 2021, saying students may need flexibility due to the economic fallout caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Seniors graduating next spring can defer the fall semester bill until April 1 of next […]
April 22, 2020
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