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Body Donations on the Rise at U.S. Medical Schools

Many U.S. medical schools are seeing a surge in the number of people leaving their bodies to science, a trend attributed to rising funeral costs and growing acceptance of a practice long seen by some as ghoulish. The increase has been a boon to medical students and researchers, who dissect cadavers in anatomy class or […]

University of California, Berkeley Chancellor Resigns

BERKELEY, Calif. ― The University of California, Berkeley chancellor, who critics alleged was too lenient when handling sexual harassment cases involving high-profile faculty members, has resigned his post. University of California President Janet Napolitano said Tuesday that she accepted UC Berkeley Chancellor Nicholas Dirks’ resignation and that a search for his successor would start immediately. […]

University of Hawaii Opens All-gender Restrooms

HONOLULU ― The University of Hawaii has opened nine more all-gender restrooms on its Manoa campus. Each all-gender bathroom is a lockable, single-stall room similar to the “family restrooms” found in malls and airports. Camaron Miyamoto who leads an LGBTQ center at UH says all-gender restrooms can be essential for students who don’t feel comfortable […]

HBCUs Still Providing Students Extra Nudge Toward Success

While still maintaining high standards and stellar graduation rates, some HBCUs have created programs that allow promising students who may not meet the traditional requirements to enter and flourish.

Scholar: Rankings of High School Systems Follows Lines of Economic Disparity

WalletHub — a personal finance website — has released data comparing the quality of education in the 50 states and the District of Columbia in its annual report “States with the Best & Worst School Systems.”

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University of Alaska Southeast Students Using Disability Services Quintuples from 2008

JUNEAU, Alaska ―The number of students using disability services at the University of Alaska Southeast is more than five times what it was in 2008. There were 23 students at the Juneau campus using those services eight years ago, when the Americans with Disabilities Act broadened its definition of disability. Since then, that number has […]

Missouri Grad Assistants Worry About Social Media Monitoring

COLUMBIA, Mo. ― Graduate assistants at the University of Missouri suspect the university is monitoring their private social media conversations as the students attempt to organize. Among hundreds of pages of university emails related to campus unrest last fall, including the resignations of President Tim Wolfe and Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin, the university’s News Bureau […]

Morgan State Bolsters Journalism School with Jason Johnson

Dr. Jason Johnson — a frequent commentator on cable news — has accepted a tenured professorship in the School of Global Journalism & Communication at Morgan State University, the Black college located in Baltimore.

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Rallying Millennials to Vote

Despite their large population (83 million), millennials vote at lower rates than their share of the population.

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Vanderbilt Pays $1.2M to Remove ‘Confederate’ from Dorm Name

NASHVILLE, Tenn. ― Vanderbilt University announced Monday that it will pay more than a million dollars to remove an inscription containing the word “Confederate” from one of its campus dorms. The private university has referred to the Confederate Memorial Hall simply as “Memorial Hall” since 2002, but was blocked in court from changing the name […]

Diverse Docket: Howard University Prevails in Title IX Suit

Howard University has defeated a lawsuit by a former graduate student who claimed she was wrongfully denied readmission twice to the doctoral program in history.

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Minorities Among Financial Aid Administrators Find Volunteering Invaluable

When it comes to moving up as a minority professional in the world of student financial aid, one of the best things you can do is to volunteer for a professional association.

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