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Policy
Administration Keeps Obama’s College Scorecard
The Department of Education staff is actively updating data on the College Scorecard, meaning that the initiative is most likely here to stay, reports Inside Higher Ed. The scorecard has been applauded as a sign of higher ed transparency by some, but also criticized by many groups for lacking context and unfairly ranking down schools […]
June 15, 2017
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Other News
Use of Tuition Aid, GI Bill Down in Fiscal 2016
The number of service members using military tuition assistance dropped again in fiscal year 2016, continuing a years-long downward trend, while Post-9/11 GI Bill usage saw a slight decrease, the first since the benefit took effect in 2009, federal data indicate. The same schools that have historically attracted the most users of those education benefits […]
June 15, 2017
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Students
Boston Bridge Program Aims to Put College Within Residents’ Reach
Boston will offer its residents yet another chance at free college through a recently announced program, The Boston Bridge. The program will be available to high school students who graduated in 2017 and are residents of the city.
June 14, 2017
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Students
Advocacy Groups Pan DeVos Rollback of For-profit College Regulations
Several advocacy groups on Wednesday assailed a U.S. Department of Education plan to roll back a pair of Obama administration regulations meant to protect students from shady colleges that leave students saddled with debt and little to nothing to show for it.
June 14, 2017
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Leadership & Policy
Harvard President Faust Stepping Down Next Year
After 11 years at the helm, Harvard president Dr. Drew Gilpin Faust will step down at the end of the 2018 academic year. Her retirement will coincide with the conclusion of the record-setting Harvard Campaign, which has raised nearly $8 billion so far.
June 14, 2017
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Blogs/Opinion
Eradicating Polio
As former directors of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, we often view matters of public health through the lenses of our separate experiences and histories leading the world’s premier health agency.  And because these matters are almost always complicated, both clinically and politically, our histories can lead us to different conclusions about what […]
June 14, 2017
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Policies
Bill Would Let Pharmacists “Prescribe” Narcan
AUGUSTA, Maine — Maine’s law to allow access to overdose-reversing medicine without a medical provider’s prescription is missing a key phrase that would actually allow the reform, according to the state’s attorney general’s office and mental health and addiction groups. The Senate, on Monday, and the House, last week, approved passage of a bill adding […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Roxane Gay’s Memoir: Journey into Obesity
At her heaviest, Roxane Gay weighed 577 pounds. In her powerful, at times harrowing, new memoir, “Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body,” Gay explains how she got that way and what it’s like to live “trapped in a cage.” It’s the story of a “carefree young girl … who felt safe in her body” until […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Shortage of Native American Doctors Raises Concern
PHOENIX — Dena Wilson never doubted what she wanted to do with her life while growing up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her mother worked at the Indian Health Service as a social worker, and aside from a brief desire to be a bird in kindergarten, Wilson knew she wanted to […]
June 14, 2017
Disparities
Researchers Closer to Early Autism Diagnosis
Research shows that the roots of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) generally start early—most likely in the womb. That’s one more reason, on top of a large number of epidemiological studies, why current claims about the role of vaccines in causing autism can’t be right. But how early is ASD detectable? It’s a critical question, since […]
June 14, 2017
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Policies
47 Counties Won’t Have Obamacare
Forty-seven counties are projected to have no Obamacare insurers next year and 1,200 could have only one, according to a new federal report. The map released Tuesday from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services outlined a county-by-county map of projected insurer participation in Obamacare. The report comes as the Senate is trying to work […]
June 14, 2017
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Policies
Healthcare Groups Petition High Court on Travel Ban
A second U.S. Appeals Court has blocked President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban, and already healthcare organizations are asking the Supreme Court not to issue a stay of the injunctions against it. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously on Monday to uphold a freeze on the travel ban, saying […]
June 14, 2017
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Disparities
Study: Racial, Ethnic Minority People Get Less Care
America is a melting pot of diversity. Having the ability to meet people from any part of the world is one of America’s biggest assets and one that has made it into the country it is today. It is estimated that racial and ethnic minorities represent 28 percent of Americans, but according to a new […]
June 14, 2017
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Students
Cleveland State Names Bynum Director of Black Studies
Noted civil rights expert scholar Dr. Thomas Bynum has been named director of the Black Studies Program at Cleveland State University. “I am very pleased to join Cleveland State and look forward to working with its talented students, faculty and staff, as well as leaders throughout the community, to advance the tremendous efforts already being […]
June 14, 2017
Students
Parents Sue Fraternity Chapter Following Their Son’s Death
RENO, Nev. — A Nevada family has filed a lawsuit against a fraternity chapter following the death of their 18-year-old son, who they say was hazed before he took a fatal fall. The parents filed the lawsuit against the Sigma Nu chapter in Reno, the Sigma Nu Housing Authority and several fraternity leaders June 2. […]
June 14, 2017
Students
Penn State Fraternity Hearing to Resume July 10
BELLEFONTE, Pa. — A preliminary hearing will continue next month for 16 members of a Penn State fraternity charged in connection with the death of a pledge who died after a drunken fall. Eighteen Beta Theta Pi members and the fraternity itself are charged because of the death of 19-year-old Tim Piazza, of Lebanon, New […]
June 14, 2017
Students
Court: Iowa State University Wrong to Block Pot T-shirt
DES MOINES, Iowa — Iowa State University lost another appeal in a federal court case over the decision of administrators to prevent a marijuana advocacy group from printing a T-shirt that included the university logo and a marijuana leaf. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday for the second time said ISU administrators […]
June 14, 2017
Students
Mississippi Community Colleges Make Cut, Raise Tuition
JACKSON, Miss. — Community colleges statewide are eliminating nearly 250 jobs for the upcoming year to close budget gaps, and five are dropping at least one intercollegiate sport. The move comes as colleges increase tuition by an average of 13 percent, mostly because state funding has fallen. Community College Board Executive Director Andrea Mayfield said […]
June 14, 2017
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