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Northwestern Opens Gender-neutral, Multi-stall Bathroom
CHICAGO — Northwestern University officials say one of its institutes has become among the first in the Chicago area to open a gender-neutral, multi-stall bathroom on a college campus. The Chicago Sun-Times reports that it was opened recently at Northwestern’s Institute for Sexual and Gender Minority Health and Wellbeing. It’s next to a single-stall gender-neutral […]
July 3, 2017
Faculty & Staff
University of Montana Offering Buyouts
MISSOULA, Mont. — Six University of Montana faculty members have expressed interest in the university’s second round of buyouts. The Missoulian reports the university recently offered early retirement incentives to 100 faculty members to reduce personnel costs due to declining enrollment. Fourteen who were of retirement age expressed interest, along with the six from the […]
July 3, 2017
Students
William & Mary to Construct New Facility for Jewish Students
WILLIAMSBURG, Va. — A new gathering place will be constructed for Jewish students at the College of William & Mary. The university said in a press release that the facility will serve as a gathering place for a variety of cultural, spiritual and educational activities. Construction in Williamsburg is expected to begin in January and […]
July 3, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Education Worth Fighting For
On April 27, Purdue University’s president, Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana, unveiled a dramatic new program that he and the board of trustees had been fashioning in secret for months. This self-proclaimed world-class university would be acquiring Kaplan University, one of several controversial for-profit, online education companies that have emerged over the last […]
July 3, 2017
Academics
R.I. Assembly Approves Bill to Study Veteran Education
PROVIDENCE — Legislation sponsored by Rep. Samuel Azzinaro, D-Westerly, and Sen. Walter S. Felag Jr., D-Warren, that would create a 13 member special legislative commission to study veteran and military spouse education and employment opportunities was approved Wednesday by the General Assembly. The purpose of the commission will be to study and discuss best practices […]
July 3, 2017
Other News
U.S. Rep: Defense Bill Includes Help for Military Spouses, Families
U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-Willsboro, helped shepherd several amendments to a defense appropriations bill, including a Democratic-backed climate change measure, through the committee process. She successfully got through three of her own measures, two dealing with military transfers and another with the selection of an East Coast missile defense site. Read More
July 3, 2017
Policy
Merchant Marine Academy Remains on Accreditation Warning
The U.S. Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point remains on warning by its academic accrediting agency even as the school has improved all but one of the five quality benchmarks it failed last year, according to a status update made public Thursday. The Middle States Commission on Higher Education, which initially placed the federal service […]
July 3, 2017
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Other News
Trident University Adds Support for Fort Irwin
As part of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed with Headquarters, United States Army Garrison, Fort Irwin in September 2016 Trident University International (Trident) would like to announce the addition of Karen Diaz as Outreach Education Specialist. This is the University’s first ever arrangement of this kind. Based at Fort Irwin, Diaz is in charge […]
July 3, 2017
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Other News
Serviceman Ends 20 Years of Globe Trotting, Learning
Sometime during the last decade, Two Harbors native Craig Moe was carrying 56 Marines in the back of his C-130 aircraft and was attempting a night landing at a dirt airfield in Iraq when he saw every military pilot’s nightmare screaming toward the plane. A surface-to-air missile was corkscrewing toward him, fired from close range. […]
July 3, 2017
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Academics
Bill Could Streamline CDL Process for Military
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — Sen. Thom Tillis has joined with senators from Texas and Massachusetts to introduce a bill that would simplify the process for troops and veterans to apply for a commercial driver’s license. Tillis, a North Carolina Republican, and Sens. John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, and Elizabeth Warren, a Massachusetts Democrat, […]
July 3, 2017
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Policy
Foreign-Born Skilled Recruits Could Face Deportation
One thousand foreign-born military recruits are facing deportation under a proposed Pentagon plan to cancel enlistment contracts for those without legal immigration status, reports The Washington Post. A Defense Department memo obtained by The Washington Post highlights potential security threats in the Military Accessions Vital to National Interest (MAVNI) program, which was implemented to accelerate […]
July 3, 2017
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Leadership & Policy
After 23 Years at the Helm of Benedict, Swinton’s Retirement Merely a Break
Following Dr. David Holmes Swinton’s retirement last week as president of 141-year-old Benedict College, he and his wife, Patricia, are taking a long, 45-day vacation.
July 2, 2017
Dr. David Holmes Swinton advises aspiring HBCU presidents: “Be very sure about why you want to be an HBCU president. You can’t do it just for pay or prestige, because you won’t be successful.” (Photo courtesy of Benedict College)
Students
Benedict College Taps Roslyn Clark Artis to Become Its Next Leader
Dr. Roslyn Clark Artis is making history as the first woman to lead Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. as she follows Dr. David Holmes Swinton, who officially retired from his post last week after 23 years on the job.
July 2, 2017
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Students
Tremors of Controversy Rock Southern University
Administration and alumni officials at Louisiana’s Southern University have gone into a major damage control mode in the wake of a series of developments in the last month that have rattled the institution and upset and stirred concern among its base of supporters.
July 2, 2017
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News Roundup
University of Missouri Credit Outlook Downgraded to Negative
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A major financial ratings agency has downgraded the University of Missouri system’s credit outlook from stable to negative, citing enrollment declines on the flagship campus in Columbia and declining state revenue. Moody’s Investor Services on Thursday also affirmed the university’s Aa1 credit rating, the second highest rating possible. Moody’s said the university’s […]
July 2, 2017
Students
Oklahoma University Reverses Course on Chapel Cross, Bibles
ADA, Okla. — The president of East Central University in Oklahoma is reversing a decision to remove Bibles and crosses from its on-campus chapel. ECU President Katricia Pierson said in a statement posted on the school’s website Friday that the public university in Ada, about 65 miles (104 kilometers) southeast of Oklahoma City, “moved too […]
July 2, 2017
Students
University of Oregon Fraternity Suspended 1 Year for Hazing
EUGENE, Ore. — The University of Oregon has suspended a fraternity for one year after it was caught hazing in the spring. The Register-Guard reports the hazing involved intentional embarrassment, physical activity as punishment and coerced use of alcohol and marijuana. University officials determined the Chi Psi chapter had violated the student conduct code and […]
July 2, 2017
Students
Man Held in Chinese Scholar’s Kidnapping was Grad Student
CHICAGO — The 28-year-old Illinois man charged with kidnapping a Chinese scholar now believed to be dead was among a select few admitted to the University of Illinois’ highly competitive physics graduate program in 2013. Brendt Allen Christensen originally planned to earn a doctorate degree, but told his graduate adviser in 2016 he had changed […]
July 2, 2017
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