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Oklahoma Senate Committee Approves Extending Veteran In-State Tuition
A measure to help more veterans pursue their college degree has passed out of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Senate Bill 1379, by Sen. Frank Simpson, R-Springer, will extend in-state tuition status to veterans who are not residents but file a letter of intent to establish residency and reside in the state while attending an Oklahoma […]
February 28, 2020
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Vets Group Sounds the Alarm After VA Greenlights Controversial Ashford University for GI Bill Funds
The Department of Veterans Affairs agreed to preserve Ashford University’s eligibility to receive GI Bill benefits after years of whistleblowers, veterans, and state officials sounding the alarm over the school’s alleged predatory habits aimed at veterans. Ashford, which is based in San Diego, is a primarily online university that has a long history of battling […]
February 28, 2020
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Why Students Join the Military
The military is composed of 2.2 billion men and women, according to the Council of Foreign Relations. The reasons they join the military varies, whether it’s to serve their country, participating in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps since high school or college, or upholding a family legacy. For CSUN students Raquelle “Rocky”’ Holloway and Johnathan Goldenberg, […]
February 28, 2020
News Roundup
Bellevue College Apologizes After VP Alters Mural of Japanese American Internment
Bellevue College has apologized after one of its vice presidents ‘whited out’ part of an artist description that accompanied a mural depicting two Japanese American children in a World War II California incarceration camp, reported The Seattle Times. The erased sentence referenced the connection between Japanese immigrants and Bellevue: “After decades of anti-Japanese agitation, led […]
February 28, 2020
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Students Protest at UC System Conference on Free Speech and Student Dissent
The thorny issue of free speech on campus played out in real time at the University of California (UC) National Center for Free Speech and Civic Engagement’s second annual #SpeechMatters Conference on Thursday when student protesters held up signs in front of the UC President Janet Napolitano as she addressed the crowd.
February 27, 2020
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DOJ Files Amicus Brief Saying Harvard’s Admissions Policy Violates Civil Rights Law
The U.S. Department of Justice, in an amicus brief filed on Tuesday to a federal appeals court, is arguing against a ruling from last October, which defended Harvard’s use of affirmative action in its admission process.
February 27, 2020
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Syracuse U Students Continue Sit-in But Agree to Negotiate With Administration
#NotAgainSU, a body of students protesting racism and prejudice on campus, hopes to soon hold negotiations with Syracuse University (SU), following an evening of protests yesterday, reported Syracuse.com. In response to more than 20 hate-related incidents last semester, roughly 30-50 of the group’s protesters have continued to occupy an administrative building for 11 days in […]
February 27, 2020
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Towson U Students: Rename Buildings Named After Slave Owners
A student group from Maryland’s Towson University is demanding that the institution’s officials change the names of two buildings on campus that are named after slave owners, reported Capital Gazette. Two student housing buildings, Paca House and Carroll Hall, are named for Marylanders William Paca and Charles Carroll, respectively. Both signed the Declaration of Independence […]
February 27, 2020
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N.J. Could Expand Free College to State’s Public Universities For Eligible Students
New Jersey could expand free college for qualifying in-state students at the state’s public universities, reported NorthJersey.com. In his budget plan announced this week, N.J. Gov. Phil Murphy proposed giving $50 million to public colleges and universities so they could offer two years of free tuition to students with household incomes of less than $65,000. […]
February 27, 2020
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Redefining Access in Higher Education
As colleges and universities become increasingly diverse in terms of their enrollment, they are quick to highlight how their incoming class is either the most racially or ethnically diverse class, the most first-generation college students to be admitted in a given year, or the most socioeconomically diverse incoming class. But what happens when these students come to campus?
February 27, 2020
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Cultural Spaces on Campus Reduce Minority Students’ Stress, Says Author
A recent comment from a Black student at the University of Virginia that there were “too many White people” at a multicultural student center brought forward long-simmering racial grievances on campuses around the country, but a new book says that such centers help reduce stress in minority and underrepresented students.
February 26, 2020
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Higher Learning Advocates Policy Brief Suggests Measures to Improve Part-Time Student Success
The brief, “Policies Impacting Today’s Part-Time Students: Boosting College Access and Completion for All,” provided recommendations to institutions in order to improve the success rate for part-time students.
February 26, 2020
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Wharton’s New Dean is First Woman, African American to Lead the Business School
The University of Pennsylvania on Wednesday announced a new dean for its famed business school Wharton. Erika H. James will be the first woman dean and the first African American to lead the business school, reported The Philadelphia Inquirer and the Philadelphia Business Journal, respectively. She will assume her new role July 1. James currently […]
February 26, 2020
Opinion
“Spirit-Murdering in Academia”
Let me be clear. There is a long history of the ideas by women of color scholars being co-opted and reproduced by others. Whether we want to acknowledge it or not, citing is a political act.
February 26, 2020
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U of Oklahoma Responds After Second Professor Uses Racial Slur in Class
Less than two weeks after a University of Oklahoma journalism professor used the N-word in class, one of the school’s history professors also used the racial slur in one of his lectures, reported KFOR news. According to a letter sent out by interim president Joseph Harroz, the unnamed professor read from a historical document that […]
February 26, 2020
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50 Years Later, U of Mississippi Awards Diplomas, Apologizes to Arrested Students
This week, fifty years ago, 89 African American students were arrested on the University of Mississippi’s campus while taking part in a peaceful demonstration to protest inequality at the institution. Yesterday, some of those former students returned to the campus to receive a formal apology — and their diplomas — from the university, which is […]
February 26, 2020
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2020 Diverse Emerging Scholar Dr. Donald ‘DJ’ Mitchell, Jr. Named Bellarmine U’s Diversity Chief
2020 Diverse Emerging Scholar Dr. Donald ‘DJ’ Mitchell, Jr. has been appointed Bellarmine University’s first chief diversity, equity and inclusion officer, the institution said. He will assume his new role on June 1. Mitchell will also continue in his faculty appointment as professor of higher education leadership and chair of Bellarmine’s master’s in Higher Education […]
February 26, 2020
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Online Western Governors U to Offer $125,000 in Scholarships to Displaced Concordia U-Portland Students
The online institution Western Governors University (WGU) announced it will offer $125,000 in scholarship funds to students who will be displaced by the closure of Concordia University-Portland this coming spring. WGU will launch the WGU Finish Strong Scholarship, a new initiative specifically for Concordia-Portland students. The program will award as many as 50 scholarships, valued up […]
February 26, 2020
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