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Test Center Engineers Like Fellowship Experience

The Redstone Test Center has hosted the current fellows in the Defense Acquisition University Senior Service College Fellowship program. Among this session’s fellows are two RTC teammates, both chief engineers at the center in their respective directorates. The center had the chance to “debrief” the two fellows on their experience of going through this prestigious […]

February 15, 2018

Prosper Act Would Increase Federal Education Spending

Late last year, House Republicans proposed a major reform of the federal government’s student aid programs for higher education. The Congressional Budget Office recently released its official score of the bill, which is dubbed the Prosper Act. Republicans have latched onto the score to defend the bill as an act of fiscal responsibility, while Democrats […]

February 15, 2018

ABA Proposes Looser Rule on Online Credits

The American Bar Association has proposed loosening its rules on online education. In an announcement posted Monday, they stated, “The Council of the Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar, the American Bar Association’s accreditor of law schools, is proposing a new rule for distance education that would nearly double the number of […]

February 15, 2018

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Graduate Student Prepares for Emergency Management Career

When Kyle Grant retired from the military in 2014, he was more motivated than ever to complete his education. He immediately started taking classes at Kingsborough College, where he completed his associate degree, and then transferred to John Jay for his bachelor’s in Security Management. After earning his BS in the spring, he is now […]

February 15, 2018

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Trump Would Ax All Funds for D.C. College Students

President Trump’s proposed budget would remove all federal funding for a program that helps D.C. residents cover the cost of college. The budget would cut out funding entirely for the D.C. Tuition Assistance Grant over “a lack of a clear federal role for supporting the cost of higher education specifically for District residents,” The Washington […]

February 15, 2018

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Budget Proposes Deep Cuts in Student Aid

The Trump administration is seeking to slash nearly $4 billion in annual funding for student aid programs, but the two-year budget deal signed into law last week complicates that proposal. President Donald Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos released a fiscal 2019 budget Monday that rehashes many of the proposals floated by the White House […]

February 15, 2018

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NAFEO Roundtable Addresses #MeToo Movement on HBCU Campuses

A Capitol Hill roundtable hosted by the National Association for Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO) convened a group of higher ed administrators, policymakers and change agents to give people of color a seat at the table in the current public debate about sexual assault and harassment.

February 14, 2018

Storytelling as #Resistance

In the past year, political and cultural resistance movements in the form of protests, marches and movements emerged online.

February 14, 2018

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Academicians Celebrated in ‘Black Scholars Matter’ Series, part 2

This is the second in a three-part Black History Month series celebrating Black academicians and their scholarship.

February 14, 2018

NJ Transition Team Calls for Focus on Equity in Care

Healthcare experts have urged the Murphy administration to prioritize efforts to grow and sustain insurance coverage, better integrate behavioral and physical care systems, improve end-of-life planning, and boost the use of data and other technologies. Read More

February 14, 2018

Dreamers’ Health

Dreamers, or the young adults who were brought to this country illegally by their parents and who have received protection from deportation under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, have been at the center of a contentious fight over the federal budget, immigration reform, and border security. Yet lost in this politically-charged conflict […]

February 14, 2018

Bill Creates Rural Health Liaison at USDA

As tensions escalate between the U.S. and China, one crop is emerging as the most powerful weapon in a potential trade war: the soybean. China is the biggest buyer of American soybeans, picking up about a third of the entire U.S. crop, which it uses largely to feed 400 million or so pigs. President Xi […]

February 14, 2018

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Nassar Scandal Prompts Flurry of Bills

LANSING, Mich. — The Larry Nassar scandal is prompting Michigan lawmakers to propose policy and funding changes to address sexual assaults, particularly on college campuses. Democrats announced legislation February 12 to create a state Title IX ombudsman in the wake of criticism of how Michigan State University handled a 2014 complaint against Nassar, who was […]

February 14, 2018

Oregon Lawmakers Vote to Make Healthcare a Right

Oregon’s Legislature took a step Tuesday toward enshrining the right to health care in the state Constitution, a move that would be unprecedented in the United States but raises serious funding questions. The House of Representatives’ 35-25 endorsement of the bill sends it to the state Senate, whose approval would put the proposed constitutional amendment […]

February 14, 2018

Black Barbershops Health Promote Heart Health

Health, specifically cardiovascular health, continues to quietly impact lives in the Black community. It is true that cardiovascular disease affects Americans from all backgrounds, but Black men are disproportionately affected. According to the Heart Disease and Stroke Statistics released annually by The American Heart Association, about half of all Black males have some form of […]

February 14, 2018

Budget Cuts Funds for Tracking Global Disease

There’s a glaring hole in President Trump’s budget proposal for 2019, global health researchers say. A U.S. program to help other countries beef up their ability to detect pathogens around the world will lose a significant portion of its funding. The ambitious program, called Global Health Security Agenda, was launched in early 2014, aiming to […]

February 14, 2018

Trump Budget Slashes Funds for HHS

A major target of the budget is Medicaid, which sees more than $1 trillion in cuts and is turned into a block grant program with greater power to states to implement means-testing. The document assumes repeal of most of the ACA, but interestingly includes funding for risk corridor and cost-sharing payments for insurers. The plan […]

February 14, 2018

College Plans Trivia Contest in Pursuit of Funds

THIBODAUX, La. – Got a knack for remembering random, somewhat useful information? A southeast Louisiana college wants you for its trivia contest this month, aimed at raising money for student programs. Nicholls State University is hosting a Big Bayou Trivia Bash on Feb. 24 at 6 p.m. Cash raised from the competition is planned for […]

February 14, 2018