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Students

Advocates Call for Schools to Stand By Undocumented Students

At a time of escalating fears of deportation, faculty and administrators should align themselves with undocumented students and actively fight to secure their future in the United States, according to a recent panel.

February 28, 2017

Students

Presidents Hope Funding Follows White House Taking Lead on HBCUs

The White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities will move from the U.S. Department of Education to the White House, per an executive order on HBCUs signed by President Donald Trump on Tuesday afternoon.

February 28, 2017

Students

Advocates Question Plan for College for Foster Care Youth

CHARLESTON, W.Va.  — Some child advocates say a plan by a nonprofit group to convert a southern West Virginia campus into a college specifically for children transitioning out of the foster care system is not a good idea. Tina Faber is based at West Virginia University in Morgantown and runs a state program called Mentoring […]

February 26, 2017

Students

Graduate Students Vote to Unionize at Yale University

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Graduate students from a half-dozen departments at Yale University have voted to form unions, setting up negotiations for contracts with the Ivy League school. The National Labor Relations Board administered elections Thursday for graduate students in nine departments. Students from the departments of English, geology and geophysics, history, history of art, […]

February 26, 2017

Students

Senate Democrats Question Role of DeVos Advisory Group

The letter asks Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos to clarify how the task force — reportedly to be headed by Liberty University President Jerry Falwell Jr. — will advise the department on issues of higher education.

February 26, 2017

Students

Free Speech, at the Expense of Who and What?

Let’s be clear: The night of protest at UC Berkeley was full of controversy; however, there was no infringement on Milo Yiannopoulos’ freedom of speech. In fact, this couldn’t be anything further from the truth.

February 21, 2017

Students

DeVos Says Community Colleges Key to Workforce Development

Community colleges will play an important role in advancing President Donald Trump’s workforce agenda, Education Secretary Betsy DeVos said at a meeting of community college leaders Thursday. It was DeVos’ first appearance at a conference event in her new role.

February 16, 2017

Students

Experts: Private Lenders Could Complicate Student Loan Program

If private lenders are allowed back into the federal student loan program — a program from which they were removed during the Obama administration — it would preclude “universal access to student loans at universal terms,” a new paper released Wednesday states.

February 15, 2017

Students

Alabama House Votes to Block Money to ‘Sanctuary Campuses’

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — The Alabama House of Representatives voted Tuesday to block state funds to colleges and universities that declare themselves so-called sanctuary campuses for immigrants in the country illegally. House members voted 72-28 for the bill to authorize the attorney general to block state funds to colleges that do not follow state and federal […]

February 15, 2017

African-American

Rodriguez: The Indigenous and Black Roots of Mexico

By knowing their intertwined histories, perhaps both peoples will come to struggle together, which in fact they are increasingly doing so already.

February 13, 2017

News Roundup

Fake News 101: The New Civics Course in U.S. Schools?

WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Teachers from elementary school through college are telling students how to distinguish between factual and fictional news – and why they should care that there’s a difference. As Facebook works with The Associated Press, FactCheck.org and other organizations to curb the spread of fake and misleading news on its influential network, teachers […]

February 13, 2017

Students

Yale Removes Slave Proponent’s Name from Residence Hall

After a wave of student protests, Yale University announced over the weekend that it would remove the name of John C. Calhoun—a Yale alumnus—who was a proponent of slavery, from an undergraduate residence hall.

February 12, 2017