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Sullivan U. Strives to Make Transition Easier

What’s harder than serving your country in the United States Armed Forces? Leaving the military life behind to return to the civilian world. Readjusting to the less-regimented, quieter existence takes time, possibly more so than leaving it behind for the military upon enlisting. One of the easier ways to make the transition is attending college. […]

September 15, 2017

Senator: Bill Would Block Transgender Ban

New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is backing a bill to prevent the removal of transgender service members from the military. The Democrat sponsored a bipartisan bill with Republican Senator Susan Collins of Maine. President Trump announced plans for a transgender military ban in July. The bill from Gillibrand and Collins also requires a transgender military […]

September 15, 2017

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Transgender ROTC Student Finds Support

Morgantown junior Levi Hanson was undecided about what he wanted to do in the future or what to major in when he arrived at WKU. He just knew he wanted to feel like he was helping people. Hanson, a transgender male, began taking ROTC classes last year and was working toward becoming a contracted cadet […]

September 15, 2017

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Canada Enhances Its Supports for Vets and Families

Whenever a Canadian serves in Canada’s armed forces, their whole family serves with them. That is why the Government of Canada has made it a priority to not only improve benefits and services for our nation’s Veterans, but for their families as well. Sherry Romanado, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate […]

September 15, 2017

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Why Are Universities Buying Military Arms?

Sending an ominous signal to student protest movements nationwide, universities across the US are once again able to equip their police forces with castoff military gear, tying them ever more intimately into the military-industrial complex. In August, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced at a Fraternal Order of Police convention that Program 1033 would resume providing […]

September 15, 2017

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AAC&U Issues College Grants to Promote Racial Healing

Hamline University is one of 10 colleges awarded a multi-year Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation (TRHT) grant from the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to create a center for racial healing.

September 14, 2017

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Expert Wants Institutions to Track Racial Data in Title IX Proceedings

According to Ben Trachtenberg, associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, current conversations around Title IX enforcement often skip over one key element: the impact of racial bias on disciplinary outcomes at colleges and universities.

September 14, 2017

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Conservative Professors: Where’s Our Inclusion on Campus?

In the academy, liberal or far-left professors outnumber their ideologically opposite colleagues nearly 5 to 1, based on a UCLA survey. If we promote diversity in race, gender and religion within the student body, shouldn’t diversity of thought be just as important?

September 14, 2017

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UC Irvine Chancellor Apologizes After School Rescinds Admission Offers

SAN DIEGO — The chancellor of the University of California, Irvine, says the school has readmitted most of the 500 students whose admission offers were rescinded last month. Chancellor Howard Gillman apologized Wednesday for the “unacceptable distress” caused to students after the campus abruptly pulled the offers for the current fall semester. The Los Angeles […]

September 14, 2017

White Nationalist Posters Found on Kansas State Campus

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas State is speaking out after posters promoting white nationalism were plastered around on campus. The Manhattan Mercury reports that university spokesman Steve Logback says the posters that appeared Wednesday don’t reflect Kansas State values and are unwelcome. Student body president Jack Ayres said in a tweet that the student government is […]

September 14, 2017

Notre Dame Policy to Require On-campus Living for 3 Years

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — The University of Notre Dame plans to enact a policy next fall requiring all newly enrolled undergraduates to live on campus during their freshman, sophomore and junior years. University officials told the South Bend Tribune the goal is to strengthen the school’s residential nature. But not all students are happy with […]

September 14, 2017

Dowell Taylor Named Interim Band Director at Jackson State

JACKSON, Miss. — Dowell Taylor has been named interim director of bands at Jackson State University. President Dr. William B. Bynum Jr. said Thursday that Taylor will officially assume the role Sept. 18. The Clarion-Ledger reports the university fired O’Neill Sanford as band director just before the football season began, saying it was “undergoing evaluations […]

September 14, 2017

We Can Do More

Upon traversing the U.S. 30 bridge from Illinois into Clinton, Iowa, motorists encounter a small but bright sign designating the city as a Home Base Iowa community. I was such a motorist over Labor Day weekend, and though I crossed that bridge countless times over almost two decades, this was the first I noticed the […]

September 14, 2017

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Some Faculty Critical of Purdue’s Online Plan

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.— Purdue University’s plans for a new online school are drawing criticism from some faculty members. The proposed school, called NewU, would emerge from Purdue’s purchase of for-profit Kaplan University, which was announced five months ago, the Journal & Courier reported. Some Purdue faculty members who question those plans say they’re worried about […]

September 14, 2017

V.M.I.: Confederate Statues Will Stay Put

Leaders of Virginia Military Institute said Tuesday that the school will keep its Confederate statues and consider adding more historical context in the aftermath of last month’s violent white nationalist rally in Charlottesville. At a VMI board of visitors meeting Tuesday, VMI Superintendent J.H. Binford Peay III defended the school’s traditions while declaring that “there’s […]

September 14, 2017

High-Tech Grad School Opens in NYC

NEW YORK — The city’s quest to make itself a legitimate rival to Silicon Valley as a high-tech hub has long bumped up against some harsh realities, among them the fact it hasn’t had a top-tier technology school pumping out the next generation of entrepreneurs and engineers. A potential answer to that problem, a new […]

September 14, 2017

Loan Forgiveness for For-Profit Fraud Stalled at DOE

WASHINGTON — Tens of thousands of former students who say they were swindled by for-profit colleges are being left in limbo as the Trump administration delays action on requests for loan forgiveness, according to court documents obtained by The Associated Press. The Education Department is sitting on more than 65,000 unapproved claims as it rewrites […]

September 14, 2017

Under DeVos, For-Profit Stocks Promise High Returns

For-profit education companies finally seem to be winning their fight against the Obama-era regulations that pushed two behemoths, Corinthian Colleges and ITT Tech, into bankruptcy, while the others saw their stock prices and enrollment plunging. The Department of Education under Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has delayed implementation of gainful employment rules, withdrawn key federal student […]

September 14, 2017