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Michigan State Gets $3M to Bolster Entrepreneurship
EAST LANSING, Mich. — A $3 million gift to Michigan State University seeks to help bolster entrepreneurship. The East Lansing school announced Monday that Larry Gaynor, president and CEO of TNG Worldwide, and his wife, company vice president Teresa Gaynor, made the donation to create the Gaynor Entrepreneurship Lab on the first floor of the […]
June 19, 2017
News Roundup
Former University of Arizona Dean’s Sex-crime Case Going to Maricopa
TUCSON, Ariz. — Pima County officials have handed over a 2015 sex-crimes case against a former University of Arizona dean to a prosecutor outside Tucson. The Arizona Daily Star reported Sunday that the Pima County Attorney’s Office sent the case against Jesse Bootman to a prosecutor in Maricopa County. The move comes after Bootman’s lawyer […]
June 19, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Former University of Montana President to Earn $119K as Chemistry Professor
MISSOULA, Mont. — Former University of Montana President Royce Engstrom will earn $119,000 a year when he returns to teaching as a chemistry professor. The Missoulian reports Engstrom will the third highest-paid professor of the 10 faculty members in the university’s chemistry department. Engrstrom resigned as president in December at the request of Commissioner of […]
June 19, 2017
Students
Harvard Students’ Ouster Over Offensive Posts Stirs Debate
LAS VEGAS — Few college-bound kids lose their shot, and their slot, at their dream school once they get in, but it happened at one of the world’s most elite institutions and for a reason that has, until recently, hardly registered in the university admissions process: social media. Harvard University’s decision to rescind admission offers […]
June 19, 2017
Students
Year-round Pell Grants to be Available This Year
WASHINGTON — Pell Grants for low-income college students can now be used for summer studies. The U.S. Education Department announced Monday that year-round Pell Grants will be available starting July 1, allowing students to take summer classes and graduate sooner. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos says the decision “is about empowering students and giving them the […]
June 19, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Too Much Secrecy
We are hurtling toward one of the most significant pieces of legislation in recent congressional history, with real-life consequences for every single American. Now if only we knew something about it. Such is the reality of the Obamacare repeal being crafted by a group of Republican senators – including South Dakota senior member John Thune […]
June 19, 2017
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Policies
Congress Passes VA Accountability Bill
WASHINGTON — Congress has approved long-sought legislation to make firing employees easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs, part of an effort urged by President Donald Trump to fix a struggling agency serving millions of veterans. The House cleared the bill, 368-55, on June 13, replacing an earlier version that Democrats had criticized as overly […]
June 19, 2017
Policies
Cuomo NY Healthcare Stays Intact Despite Trump
Gearing up for a possible repeal of the Affordable Care Act, New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo is looking to shore up health care for his constituents. The governor has directed the New York State Department of Health to ban all insurance companies who withdraw from the state’s health insurance exchange if they don’t participate […]
June 19, 2017
Disparities
Free Health Clinics Make a Comeback
After eight years of stagnant growth during Obamacare’s coverage expansion, free and charitable health clinics are experiencing a major growth spurt amid Republican efforts to slash health coverage for the poor. A safety-net health care provider for low-income Americans, the nation’s 1,200-plus free clinics typically are underfunded, understaffed and overwhelmed by an outsized mission that […]
June 19, 2017
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Policies
Official Hopes Charges in Flint Will Restore Trust
FLINT, Mich. —In a battered city where many still refuse to bathe in tap water, much less drink it, the prosecution of officials accused of letting Flint’s public supply become contaminated with toxic lead and failing to warn of deadly bacteria represents a tentative step toward restoring trust in government. Still, the path ahead is […]
June 19, 2017
Other News
Trump: Republican Plan Too “Cold-Hearted”
President Trump has described a health care plan draft that the Republicans have been working on as ‘cold-hearted’ and ‘mean’. The Republicans have been drafting the proposal in secret and not much is known about it at all. All that the proposal makers will reveal is that they are overhauling the existing system completely, which […]
June 19, 2017
Policies
Secrecy Over Bill Frustrates GOP Senators
Senate Republican leaders are aiming to bring a major revision to the nation’s health-care laws to the Senate floor by the end of June even as lingering disagreements, particularly over Medicaid, threaten to derail their efforts, several Republicans familiar with the effort said Thursday. President Donald Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., are […]
June 19, 2017
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Policies
At First Trump Opioid Summit, Advocates Plea for Medicaid Funds
WASHINGTON — Health advocates on Friday used the first meeting of President Trump’s commission on the opioid crisis to criticize a bill that would slash future Medicaid spending and deregulate the health insurance market, arguing that the legislation would undermine whatever progress the panel could make. “Medicaid is the largest national payer for addiction and […]
June 19, 2017
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Students
Guillermo: Diversity Loses When Public Schools Go ‘Private’
It’s been said that public higher education has been the way for the common man to excel in uncommon ways. But when states cut funding to these places of higher learning, the basic character of these so-called “flagship” institutions change.
June 18, 2017
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Leadership & Policy
Tuskegee University Off Accreditation Warning List
Tuskegee University—the private historically Black college in Alabama that was founded by Booker T. Washington—is no longer under an accreditation warning by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges.
June 18, 2017
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Students
Scholars: DACA Reprieve No Reason for Dreamers to Relax
Even though the Trump Administration gave Dreamers a bit of a reprieve last week through its continuance of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, scholars say Dreamers still shouldn’t get too comfortable.
June 18, 2017
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Students
Delta College Settles in Sexual Harassment Lawsuit
BAY CITY, Mich. — Two students who allege they were sexually harassed by a Delta College professor have dropped their lawsuit against the school in exchange for $195,000. A judge signed an order in February to dismiss the suit after an out-of-court settlement was reached, the Bay City Times reported. The newspaper recently obtained the […]
June 18, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Jerryl Briggs to Run Mississippi Valley State University for Now
JACKSON, Miss. — Chief Operating Officer Jerryl Briggs will become acting president of Mississippi Valley State University. The state College Board named him Thursday to take over on July 1 from William Bynum Jr., who will become president of Jackson State University. Board spokeswoman Caron Blanton says Briggs will be acting president until trustees begin […]
June 18, 2017
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