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How Long Will Bump in For-Profit Stocks Last?
The oft-scrutinized for-profit education industry may see less scrutiny in coming years and investors are taking notice. For-profit college stocks are seeing an especially strong lift from the rising Trump tide that’s boosted the broader market, with sector leaders DeVry, Grand Canyon Education and Strayer all outperforming the S&P 500 by more than 15% since […]
February 28, 2017
Veterans
Program Trains Veterans for Future in Farming
A growing number of veterans are looking to agriculture for their next career and entrepreneurial opportunity. It’s what brought dozens of veterans and active duty military recently to the parking lot of the Hillsborough County Agricultural Extension Service in Seffner. Shortly after sunrise, they boarded a bus for the Military Farm Tour sponsored by the […]
February 28, 2017
Veterans
4 Facts About Student Veterans
The popular myth that student veterans don’t perform well doesn’t stand up to the facts. We took Fallujah. We know more than a decade of war. Why then do so many articles bemoan the challenges veterans face attending college? Veterans are completing tougher degrees with higher grades at better colleges than many might guess. Sure, […]
February 28, 2017
Veterans
Study: Veterans Out-Perform Other Students
Despite often having to juggle schoolwork with jobs and families, veterans attending college under the Post-9/11 GI Bill are finishing at rates slightly higher than their classmates, a new report shows. The report says 53.6 percent of veterans using GI Bill benefits who arrived on campus in the fall of 2009 had graduated within six […]
February 28, 2017
Students
Addressing Common Misperceptions to Diversify the STEM Talent Pipeline
As we work to bridge the gap between the labor force and the needs of employers, we must also work to diversify the talent pool that will fill this gap.
February 28, 2017
Students
Dillard President: What President Trump Needs to Hear
We’ve seen federal and state divestment in education, making the idea of education as the path to the American Dream more of a hallucination for the poor and disenfranchised.
February 27, 2017
Students
Miami Dade College Personalizes High School Outreach
Miami Dade College officials overhauled their high school outreach and freshman orientation to make services and activities more personalized.
February 27, 2017
Faculty & Staff
SEIU Accuses Duke of Erecting Unionization Blockades
The Service Employees International Union is criticizing Duke University’s administration, following a vote to unionize Duke graduate students on Friday, alleging obstruction by Duke.
February 27, 2017
Students
Tennessee Finds Remedial Education Reform Success
A new report from the Community College Research Center (CCRC) at Columbia University sheds light on why developmental education may not be working at the community college level and offers some solutions.
February 27, 2017
Students
HBCUs, Advocates Looking for Help from Trump on Funding
WASHINGTON — The nation’s historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are pushing for President Donald Trump to set aside more federal contracts and grants for their schools, and take a greater hand in their welfare by moving responsibility for a key program for those colleges to the White House. The presidents of the nation’s 100-plus […]
February 27, 2017
News Roundup
After 130 Years, Harvard Law Review Elects a Black Woman President
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It has been 27 years since the first black man, an older student by the name of Barack Obama, was elected president of the prestigious Harvard Law Review. It has been even longer — 41 years — since the first woman, Susan Estrich, was elected to the position. Since then, subsequent presidents […]
February 27, 2017
Students
Republican Proposes Raising University of Wisconsin Tuition by Inflation, Income
MADISON, Wis. — A key Republican legislator says Gov. Scott Walker’s plan to cut University of Wisconsin System tuition could hurt taxpayers and lawmakers should instead consider letting the system raise tuition according to inflation or income increases. Rep. Dale Kooyenga, a member of the Legislature’s powerful budget committee, wrote on the Right Wisconsin website […]
February 27, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Nearly 600 Penn State Faculty, Staff Voluntarily Retire
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Nearly 600 faculty and staff have taken a voluntary retirement package from Penn State University, including more than 400 employees on the main campus. The Centre Daily Times reports 419 main campus employees took the offer, while 168 others did on satellite campuses. Forty-six percent of employees eligible for the early […]
February 27, 2017
Leadership & Policy
University of North Florida President Stepping Down in 2018
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — University of North Florida President John Delaney says he plans to resign from his job. Delaney, the former mayor of Jacksonville, announced Monday that he will retire from his position when his contract expires in May 2018. Delaney has been UNF president since 2003 and he was appointed to the position despite […]
February 27, 2017
Blogs/Opinion
Our $1 Million Medical Bill
Avoidable medical complications plague American families physically, emotionally — and economically. A poignant example of the damage caused not by accidents but by failures in the health care system was recently identified and carefully studied in the medical device space. An analysis by the Government Accountability Office (GAO) determined that physicians, hospitals and manufacturer failed […]
February 27, 2017
Disparities
NIH: Brain Scans Detect Autism Earlier
For children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), early diagnosis is critical to allow for possible interventions at a time when the brain is most amenable to change. But that’s been tough to implement for a simple reason: the symptoms of ASD, such as communication difficulties, social deficits, and repetitive behaviors, often do not show up […]
February 27, 2017
Other News
Can Having Role Models Produce More Minority Doctors?
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Eight of Melissa Cornett’s 10 children want to be doctors. The oldest, at 29, hopes to become a family physician; the youngest, who’s “almost 9,” wants to be an ER doctor. Although they all have endured the typical bumps, bruises, and medical crises of childhood, they’ve only ever met two doctors who […]
February 27, 2017
Other News
Obamacare’s Popularity Goes Up
Obamacare is getting more popular with voters even as President Donald Trump moves to get rid of the landmark health-care law. A total of 45 percent of registered voters say they approve of Obamacare, compared to 45 percent who oppose the law, a new Politico/Morning Consult poll finds. Since early January — weeks before Trump […]
February 27, 2017
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