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Health
For Colored Folks Who Have Considered Suicide
The high-profile deaths of celebrities Avicii, Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain have forced important conversations about mental illness. Many of those conversations focus on how people who seemingly āhave it allā could feel so isolated that ending their life seemed like the only solution.
June 9, 2018
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E-cigarette Sellers Turn to Scholarships to Promote Brands
A growing number of e-cigarette and vaporizer sellers have started offering college scholarships as a way to get their brands listed on university websites and to get students to write essays about the potential benefits of vaping. The tactic is taken from a method that was once believed to improve a siteās ranking in search [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
News Roundup
University of Oregon Receives $1 million to Study Cryptocurrency
EUGENE, Ore. ā Global cryptocurrency company Ripple will give $1 million in real money to the University of Oregon to support the study of the digital payment industry. The Register-Guard newspaper of Eugene reports San Francisco-based Ripple will give the university the money in a five-year agreement. The university is among 17 to receive funding [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
News Roundup
Ripple Announces $50M University Blockchain Research Initiative
AMSTERDAM āĀ Ā Ripple is launching the University Blockchain Research Initiative (UBRI), a program comprised of collaborative partnerships with leading universities globally to support academic research, technical development and innovation in blockchain, cryptocurrency and digital payments. Through the program, Ripple will donate $50 million to universities around the world to help shape the workforce of the future. [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Other News
Film Documents For-Profit Collegesā Abuse of Veterans, Others
BROOKLYN, N.Y. ā After serving four years in the military, John Andrews, 42, adjusted to civilian life by working at his local Walmart in Arkansas. Encouraged by co-workers, he also went back to school, hoping to move up in management. Instead, he ended up $40,000 in debt,* with a diploma so useless he refuses to [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Veterans
N.M. Joins Troops-to-Teachers to Meet Shortage
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) ā The state is now participating in the āTroops to Teachersā initiative. Ā It helps military service members and veterans transition into careers as teachers.Ā New Mexico was awarded nearly half a million dollars in federal funding for the program.Ā While the program has been around since 1993, itās the first time [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Academics
Virginia Gets $19 M Grant to Recruit More Veterans as Teachers
Virginia will be putting an additional $1.9 million toward recruiting veterans to serve as teachers. Gov. Ralph Northam announced a five-year grant from the Department of Defense that will provide $380,000 annually to the Troops to Teachers Virginia Center at the College of William & Mary. Read More
June 8, 2018
Academics
Texas A&M Maritime Academy Seeks Bigger Ship
GALVESTON, Texas ā For 12 years, cadets at Texas A&M University at Galveston have not exactly had a ship to call their own. The Galveston County Daily News reports that since the departure of the Texas Clipper II in 2005, the school hasnāt had a training ship large enough to accommodate all the 300 or [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Academics
Military Spouses Find Opportunities in Multilevel Marketing
According to data from the White House and the Department of Defense, there are nearly 690,000 spouses of active-duty service members, 12 percent of whom are active-duty military themselves. The unemployment rate for military spouses over the past decade has hovered between 20 and 25 percent, four times the rate for adult women. At the [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Academics
MOOCs: Andrew Ng Teaches More Students Than Anyone
One selling point of MOOCs (massive online open courses) has been that students can access courses from the worldās most famous universities. The assumptionāespecially in the marketing messages from major providers like Coursera and edXāis that the winners of traditional higher education will also end up the winners in the world of online courses. But [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Veterans
Veteran Joblessness Trending Downward
In May 2018, veteran unemployment is down slightly at 3.4 percent, according toĀ data published by the U.S. Department of Labor.Ā This compares to the national unemployment rate of 3.8 in May 2018,Ā published by the National Conference of State Legislatures. This is more than a 20 percent decrease since 2016 and almost a 10 percent decrease since [ā¦]
June 8, 2018
Blogs/Opinion
Empowering Transition
Veterans are the unacknowledged permanent ambassadors of national service. How we publicly portray veterans directly relates to how society conceptualizes military service, including what happens to an individual during that service. In an all-volunteer force, reputation is key to the attractiveness of joining a profession that can end in death or permanent disability. Read More
June 8, 2018
Latest News
Renowned Historian Ira Berlin Dies at 77
History teachers and mentees at higher education institutions across the nation expressed regrets and sorrow this week over the passing of one of their most noted peersāDr. Ira Berlin, the renowned history professor who dramatically enhanced American appreciation and understanding of the role of slavery in America.
June 7, 2018
Opinion
Reimagining the Liberal Arts
The liberal arts can help students prepare for the complexities of the modern workplace, including those related to religious diversity.
June 7, 2018
Asian American Pacific Islander
The Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund Selects New Leader
After an extensive nationwide search, Dr. Noƫl Suzanne Harmon, has been selected as the new president and executive director of the Asian & Pacific Islander American Scholarship Fund (APIASF).
June 7, 2018
Students
Student Social and Emotional Learning Explored at Gathering
Scholars, policymakers and other stakeholders from 12 countries have gathered here to delve deeply into social and emotional learning, one of the newest frontiers in education that some researchers and practitioners are tying to academic achievement, future labor-market success and personal happiness.
June 7, 2018
Academics
Stanford Students Boycott Google Internships Over Military Drones
Student activist group the Stanford Solidarity Network (SSN) has released a petition calling on Google to pledge not to pursue any future contracts with the military, adding that until such a commitment is made, signatories will not pursue internships or postgraduate jobs with the tech giant. āWe, students, pledge that we will ā¦ refuse to [ā¦]
June 7, 2018
Policy
How One Man in Uniform Became Face of Global Romance Scams
In the summer of 2015, Bryan Denny received a peculiar message in his LinkedIn inbox. āI really need to speak with you, Bryan,ā a woman wrote. āI thought you were coming to visit me after your deployment in Syria was completed?ā He didnāt recognize the womanās name or picture, had never been to Syria, and [ā¦]
June 7, 2018
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