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Rivier University Continues Job Guarantee Program for Second Year

NASHUA, N.H. — New Hampshire’s Rivier University is continuing with its promise to graduates that they will find employment nine months after graduation. The university’s Employment Promise Program, now i its second year, promises full-time undergraduate students that they will land a job within nine months of graduation. If not, the school will either pay […]

August 14, 2017

Texas Lawmakers Want A&M to Block White Nationalist Rally

COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University has criticized the views of a White nationalist who is planning a “White lives matter” rally on campus next month, but lawmakers in the state Legislature are calling on the school to go farther and block the event entirely. A&M spokeswoman Amy Smith told The Battalion student newspaper […]

August 14, 2017

Doctor: Will I Have to Turn Children Away?

It has been 20 years since I’ve had to tell a mother she had no options for insuring her child. At the time, I had been treating a little boy who was born prematurely and required developmental therapies. He toddled over to me from across the waiting room, shouting my name to show that he […]

August 14, 2017

Big Data Yields Surprising Links Among Diseases

Using health insurance claims data from more than 480,000 people in nearly 130,000 families, researchers at the University of Chicago have created a new classification of common diseases based on how often they occur among genetically-related individuals. Researchers hope the work, published this week in Nature Genetics, will help physicians make better diagnoses and treat […]

August 14, 2017

Disease Kills Hundreds of N.M. Residents

Cerebral cavernous malformation is a genetic disease where blood cells clump together, weakening their walls and causing them to leak blood. When that happens in the brain, it leads to headaches, seizures and potentially death. The vast majority of the people who have the disease still live in the Land of Enchantment. Read More

August 14, 2017

Hospitals Limit Exposure to Opioids

President Donald Trump announced his intent to declare the opioid crisis a national emergency. Once that is official it would free up government officials to dedicate more people and resources for treatment. Carolinas HealthCare System is trying to curb the amount of opioid medicines patients are introduced to while in the hospital with alternative treatments. […]

August 14, 2017

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Study: Yes, Women’s Brains Are More Active Than Men’s

In the largest functional brain imaging study to date, the Amen Clinics (Newport Beach, CA) compared 46,034 brain SPECT (single photon emission computed tomography) imaging studies provided by nine clinics, quantifying differences between the brains of men and women. The study is published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. Lead author, psychiatrist Daniel G. Amen, […]

August 14, 2017

Report: VA Office Denies 90% of Gulf War Claims

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Veterans Affairs office in New Mexico during the 2015 fiscal year denied more than 90 percent of benefit claims related to Gulf War illnesses, marking the ninth-lowest approval rating among VA sites nationwide, according to a federal report. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs’ Albuquerque office denied 592 of 640 Gulf […]

August 14, 2017

Obamacare Marketplaces Aren’t Collapsing, but They Aren’t Thriving

Typically by August, the state of the upcoming Obamacare enrollment season is pretty evident – that is, what health insurance rates will look like and how many insurers will participate in the marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act. But not this year. A picture of the 2018 marketplaces is slowly emerging — but everything […]

August 14, 2017

VA Healthcare Bill Becomes Law

President Donald Trump signed a large spending bill Saturday aimed at reforming the Veterans Healthcare Administration, fulfilling a central promise from his campaign. The bill, VA Choice and Quality Employment Act, received broad support from Democrats and Republicans in Congress on it way to Trump’s desk. In all, it allocated $3.9 billion in spending. The […]

August 14, 2017

Expert: Diversifying Cybersecurity Starts with ‘Targeted Recruiting’

In order to diversify the growing field of cybersecurity, employers must do more “targeted recruiting” at colleges and universities that are diverse themselves. That advice comes from Debora Plunkett, a retired National Security Agency executive and adjunct cybersecurity professor at the University of Maryland University College, or UMUC

August 13, 2017

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Institutions Tackle Rising Tuition Costs

There’s no denying that college costs have risen dramatically over the past several decades. The average cost of tuition at a private college was $33,480 in 2016-2017, according to the College Board. In 1996, it was an average of $12,823.

August 13, 2017

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Alternative Facts and Faulty Citations: Urging Students to Use the Library

Like many others who have not been living in a dark-tinted bubble for the past year, I have noticed that it has become increasingly difficult at times to differentiate between fact and fiction when reading U.S. news headlines.

August 13, 2017

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HBCU and Congressional Leaders Push Trump Administration to Fill Key Post

Now that the White House Initiative on historically Black Colleges and Universities has remained leaderless for longer than it has under any previous administration, a chorus of HBCU advocates and some lawmakers are increasingly of the mind that the Trump administration has failed to make good on its promise to HBCUs

August 13, 2017

Louisville Appeals ‘Draconian’ NCAA Penalties in Escort Case

Louisville said the NCAA “abused” its authority when it disciplined the school for a sex scandal that could result in the loss of its 2013 national basketball championship. The school also said in a 68-page appeal released Friday that the governing body imposed “draconian” penalties and ignored the school’s self-imposed discipline. Louisville banned itself from […]

August 13, 2017

3 Dead, Dozens Injured, Amid Violent White Nationalist Rally

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.–A car rammed into a crowd of protesters and a state police helicopter crashed into the woods Saturday as tension boiled over at a white supremacist rally. The violent day left three dead, dozens injured and this usually quiet college town a bloodied symbol of the nation’s roiling racial and political divisions. The chaos […]

August 13, 2017

Crack Down on Debt

The cost of a college education is not only getting higher. It’s getting tougher, too. At least in Virginia. A Washington Post report indicates that an increasing number of students are being sent to collection agencies over delinquent tuition payments that would appear to be miniscule to the schools but much more substantial to the […]

August 11, 2017

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Maine Recruits Veterans to Ease Bus Driver Shortage

Veterans have a drive to serve, and the Maine Department of Education is hoping more will put that drive to use literally — behind the wheel of a yellow school bus, to help ease a severe bus driver shortage. “It made sense with their background,” said Rachel Paling, the department’s director of communications. “They oftentimes […]

August 11, 2017

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