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Immigrants Forego Benefits for Fear of Penalties
A hotel housekeeper with a working adult son, Hudith received food stamps that weren’t worth a lot — about $50 a month. But she was nervous. Though she was entitled to food stamps as a legal permanent resident from Mexico, and her three children were all born in the U.S., she heard from a friend […]
August 20, 2018
Nursing
W.Va. State Board Moves to Create Nursing Program
West Virginia State University’s Board of Governors voted Tuesday to ask the state Higher Education Policy Commission to let the school offer nursing bachelor’s degrees, which the school’s president said would be WVSU’s first nursing degrees in a decade. The WVSU board approved the proposal in a voice vote with no nays heard. WVSU President […]
August 20, 2018
Policies
Texas Board Approves New Medical School
Sam Houston State University’s pitch to open a medical school in Conroe — a program school officials said would draw primary care physicians to rural and underserved parts of the state — was approved by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board Tuesday with a 5-4 vote. With that sign-off, Sam Houston officials have overcome a […]
August 20, 2018
Other News
V.A. Accused of Failing to Pay Healthcare Company
CONCORD, N.H. — Months of unpaid invoices to the Department of Veterans Affairs has prompted a health care provider to stop servicing more than a dozen veterans in New Hampshire. The Boston Globe reports owners of Right at Home stopped caring for 16 veterans as of Friday because they were unable to get about $60,000 […]
August 20, 2018
Other News
Neil Diamond Talks about His Battle with Parkinson’s
NEW YORK – Neil Diamond may have retired from the road due to Parkinson’s disease, but he said he’s working hard to get back onstage. “Well, I’m doing pretty well. I’m active. I take my meds. I do my workouts. I’m in pretty good shape. I’m feeling good. I want to stay productive. I still […]
August 20, 2018
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August 20, 2018
Students
Consortium Creates a Community for Minorities, Women in Cybersecurity
Recognizing the need to increase and retain the number of people of color and women in cybersecurity professions, the International Consortium of Minority Cybersecurity Professionals (ICMCP) has created a community to support such individuals entering the field.
August 17, 2018
News Roundup
Brazilian DACA Entrepreneur Fears Deportation
Victor Santos, an immigrant from Brazil and co-founder of the finance app Airfox, faces uncertainty about his status in the United States under President Donald Trump’s administration. At the age of 12, originally on a business trip with his parents, Santos arrived in the United States. His family stayed in San Francisco and Santos eventually […]
August 17, 2018
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Sterling Stuckey, Renowned Historian, Dies
Dr. Sterling Stuckey, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Riverside and a prominent scholar of African-American history, has died.
August 17, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
‘Good Idea Fairy’
It is tough to publicly critique someone you respect but, if the issue is important enough, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let fly. In a recent War on the Rocks article, Paula Thornhill provided a set of recommendations she believes would improve professional military education. If anyone is qualified to tackle this […]
August 17, 2018
Policy
DOD Exempts Wounded from Separation Policy
Servicemembers wounded in combat will now be exempt from the new Department of Defense policy to be deployable in 12 months or face separation from the military. According to DOD Instruction 1332.45 (Retention Determinations for Non-Deployable Servicemembers), those servicemembers whose injuries were the result of hostile action, meet the criteria for awarding of the Purple […]
August 17, 2018
Veterans
Feds Probe Dismissal of Disabled Student Veteran
The federal government is investigating the Medical University of South Carolina for an alleged civil rights violation after a veteran and former nursing school student reported she was expelled because administrators discriminated against her based on a disability. Nicola Fiem, 31, of North Charleston, filed her complaint with the U.S. Department of Education last year. […]
August 17, 2018
Policy
Leaving Military? Get Extra Time to Use Benefits
Those leaving the military will have more time to use free resources such as income tax help, nonmedical counseling, spouse employment assistance and other resources via Military OneSource, thanks to a provision in the defense authorization bill signed into law Monday by President Trump. Much of the information on MilitaryOneSource.mil is available to the general […]
August 17, 2018
Other News
Online, For-Profit University Accused of Misleading Vets Agrees to Pay $270,000
American Military University has agreed to a $270,000 settlement regarding allegations by the state of Massachusetts that the school violated state law by misleading veterans. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey alleges the online for-profit school, whose students are mostly veterans, did not make mandated disclosures to prospective students regarding job placement rates and did not […]
August 17, 2018
Academics
Warrior-Scholar Project Introduces Service Members, Vets to Top Universities
It’s 6 p.m. and three women are huddled around an outdoor table, binders out, ready to study. This week, Vaquita Barnes has been up till 2 a.m. finishing her homework, but thanks to a system she’s devised with Artra Rice-Nelson and K’Loni Luttrell, they might get to bed by midnight. Read More
August 17, 2018
Academics
Certification, Credentialing Pilot to Launch at Fort Hood
FORT HOOD, Texas — A new Army education pilot program will give access to civilian credential and licensing certification programs to the 36,000 soldiers of Fort Hood, making them more attractive to employers outside the military. Undersecretary of the Army Ryan McCarthy, Sgt. Maj. Daniel Dailey and U.S. Rep. John Carter, R-Round Rock, joined Fort […]
August 17, 2018
Academics
Army Changing Enlisted Education Curriculum
The Army is changing its 40-year-old enlisted education system with a new curriculum and an online course offering graded decisions that carry over to all academies for noncommissioned officers. Soldiers attending the improved Basic Leader Course will now be evaluated on writing essays, public speaking and giving training classes to their peers during the monthlong […]
August 17, 2018
News Roundup
Report: Interest in Online Education Keeps Growing
The associate’s degree is the most popular credential among potential students as demand for online higher education continues to grow, according to a study by Clearwater, Fla.-based Digital Media Solutions. The independent agency’s study reviewed trends in inquiry generation and student acquisition data from January through June of this year. Analysts used information from Sparkroom, […]
August 17, 2018
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