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Julius Lester, Dead at 78

Julius Lester, a nationally known author, musician, activist and photographer, died last week at the age of 78.

January 21, 2018

Cornel West Reflects on 25th Anniversary of Seminal Book ‘Race Matters’

An interview with Dr. Cornel West, professor of the practice of public philosophy at Harvard Divinity School, on the 25th anniversary of the publication of Race Matters.

January 21, 2018

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Del Pilar Works to Give Underrepresented Students Voice in Higher Ed

As the vice president of higher education policy and practice at The Education Trust, Dr. Wil Del Pilar brings to the job years of experience in research and policy.

January 21, 2018

U.S. Marches For Women’s Rights, Slam Trump, Encourage Voting

LOS ANGELES: Demonstrators from Los Angeles to New York marched in support of female empowerment and denounced President Donald Trump’s views on immigration, abortion, LGBT rights and women’s rights on Saturday, the anniversary of his inauguration. People marched in Casper, Wyo., and Cambridge, Mass., and in Sioux Falls, S.D., and Houston. In Park City, Utah, […]

January 21, 2018

UMass Gets Chan Zuckerberg Grant For Scientific Project

AMHERST, Mass. — The University of Massachusetts has received a $5.5 million grant from a philanthropy founded by the man behind Facebook and his wife to create a way to search millions of scientific research articles. The grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to UMass’s Center for Data Science will create the Computable Knowledge project […]

January 21, 2018

Study: Farmers Don’t Have Enough Access to Mental Health

LAKE BETON, Minn. — A University of Minnesota study says farmers in the state may not be getting all the help they need to deal with the stress and mental strain of their jobs. Marizen Ramirez, who co-authored the study and is an epidemiologist at the university, told Minnesota Public Radio that farmers who live […]

January 21, 2018

Immigration Ensures Diversity

It is estimated that immigration to the North American continent began no later than 10,000 B.C./B.C.E. It has continued ever since, and by all knowledgeable accounts this continuous flow of people seeking a better life is what has made and continues to make America great. Immigration is good because it ensures diversity.

January 21, 2018

Innovation and Transformation

Here’s a puzzle: Americans love their own colleges and universities and yet are suspicious of and even disdainful of colleges and universities in general. Why is that? Polls show that the great majority of Americans who graduated from college are grateful they went to that college, felt they got their money’s worth, and would go […]

January 19, 2018

Lawmakers Weigh Cuts to Tuition Waivers

LARAMIE — A state program providing free tuition to veterans and their families could be reduced during the Wyoming Legislature’s upcoming budget session beginning Feb. 12. The Legislature’s Joint Appropriations Committee further considered a proposed bill that would amend the program during a callback meeting with the Community College Commission on Monday. Jim Rose, the […]

January 19, 2018

Worldwide Campus Picked as No. 1 Online Bachelor’s

Since 2014, Embry-Riddle Worldwide has ranked in the top five of the annual list, including being named No. 1 for the past three years. In the most current rankings, it tops the list in a tie with Temple University with Arizona State University, Utah State University and Oregon State University rounding out the top five. […]

January 19, 2018

MIT Streamlining Case Studies for Online MOOCs

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s leading role in online education for all is changing how its own faculty approach more traditional education. For example, at the MIT Center for Real Estate, professors are rethinking the case study approach common in management training. The change stems from an effort to introduce case studies to MIT’s “Massive […]

January 19, 2018

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New Program Aims to Be Advocate for Veterans

A nonprofit organization in Elmira and Corning is starting a new advocacy program catering to veterans. The AIM Independent Living Center helps with resume-building, access to education and retraining programs, and much more to help veterans transition back into civilian life and be in a productive position physically, mentally, and monetarily. Nathan Benton is a […]

January 19, 2018

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MOOCs Increasing Access to Free Education

Post-secondary education, or higher learning as some would call it, is merely a pipe dream for some people. The fees associated with enrolling in a university or college, including tuition, books and other student fees, are sometimes prohibitive. Not to mention the strict and varied schedules that must be followed in order to complete the […]

January 19, 2018

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Podcast Brings Literary Talk to Military Audience

Brian Wilson isn’t your average book nerd. He has an engineering degree, owns a pair of CrossFit gyms and can share war stories from numerous deployments over more than a decade as an intelligence officer in the Marine Corps and Reserves. But Wilson, 39, would rather talk about classical literature any day. “You read something […]

January 19, 2018

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Library of Congress Wants You to Preserve Memories

At the Student Veterans of America national conference, a specialist from the Veterans History Project shared how you can help preserve veterans stories for the Library of Congress with just a few everyday tools. Read More

January 19, 2018

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Challenges Persist in Hiring Black Head Coaches in College Football

Penn State University’s James Franklin was the quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator at Kansas State in 2006-2007 and quarterbacks coach, offensive coordinator and associate head coach at Maryland from 2008-2010.

January 18, 2018

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New Blog Explores Health, Wellness Education

Welcome to the inaugural Diverse blog of Tanya Leake, an engineer-turned-“healthpreneur” based in Atlanta. She is a certified health coach, wellness presenter and group fitness and dance instructor, author, and owner of a wellness consultancy.

January 18, 2018

New Initiative Seeks to Unite Native-Serving Institutions

The Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education, or WICHE, has launched a new collaboration of Native-Serving Institutions that is hoped to benefit more than five million people in the country who identify as Native American.

January 18, 2018

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