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Rodriguez: Arizona Court to Decide What We Can Learn

The long-anticipated trial to determine whether there were racial motivations in terminating Tucson Unified School District’s highly effective Raza Studies Department begins next month.

May 22, 2017

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Carleton College Suspends 13 Over Hazing; Assault Alleged

NORTHFIELD, Minn. — Officials at a small private college say they suspended 13 students over hazing at an initiation into a secret social club that involved extreme alcohol consumption, and police are investigating a reported sexual assault that followed. Carleton College said it suspended the students for three trimesters, or one academic year, for violating […]

May 22, 2017

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Swygert: Loan Servicing Change Could Rock HBCUs

Any wrong turn, albeit well intentioned, could further jeopardize the fragile state of HBCUs, Dr. H. Patrick Sywgert warned a crowd of several hundred attendees this weekend at “The Grand Boule Forum on HBCUs.”

May 21, 2017

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FAFSA Hacker Targeted Trump Tax Info

The person accused of a 2016 attempt to use a web-based FAFSA tool to illegally obtain taxpayer information is a longtime Louisiana-based private investigator who used the tool to target then-presidential candidate Donald J. Trump, court records obtained by Diverse show.

May 21, 2017

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Department of Education Seeking Single Servicer for Student Loans

The Department of Education announced on Friday that it would offer a contract to a single servicer to administer federal students loans.

May 21, 2017

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Harvard Student Submits Rap Album as His Senior Thesis

BOSTON — While other Harvard University students were writing papers for their senior theses, Obasi Shaw was busy rapping his. Shaw is the first student in Harvard’s history to submit a rap album as a senior thesis in the English Department, the university said. The album, called “Liminal Minds,” has earned the equivalent of an […]

May 21, 2017

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‘New Life’ Initiative to Recruit American Indian Students

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — South Dakota State University President Barry Dunn says he can see a future in which reservation hospitals and health centers across South Dakota employ pharmacists and lab scientists educated at his school, with doctors and administrators also trained at institutions in the state. The land-grant university is pursuing a new initiative […]

May 21, 2017

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LGBTQ Group at Fordham Says No to Chick-fil-A

Fordham University — one of America’s oldest Jesuit institutions — has rejected a proposal to build a Chick-fil-A on its campus in protest of comments made by Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy about same-sex marriage.

May 18, 2017

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Hartle: Trump Education Budget an ‘Assault on College Affordability’

If a news report on a preliminary draft of the Trump administration’s proposed education budget is accurate, the budget represents a “historic assault on college affordability,” says a senior executive for the American Council on Education.

May 18, 2017

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Advocates: Utah Sexual Assault Bill Could Harm Victims

SALT LAKE CITY — A Republican state representative is proposing legislation to require that Utah colleges give immunity to sexual assault victims for conduct code violations related to alcohol and drugs and allow school officials to report serious assaults to police. But a sexual assault survivor and an advocacy group are pushing back against […]

May 18, 2017

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Some Notre Dame Students Plan to Walk Out During Pence Speech

SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A University of Notre Dame student says he and some others plan to protest Vice President Mike Pence’s Sunday commencement address at the school by walking out on the speech. Protest organizer Bryan Ricketts tells the South Bend Tribune he expects 50 to 100 fellow graduating students to silently leave just […]

May 18, 2017

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Israeli University Department Criticized for Nixing Anthem

JERUSALEM  — An Israeli university department’s decision not to play the national anthem at a graduation ceremony on Thursday has sparked outrage from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. A Hebrew University of Jerusalem spokesman confirmed an Army Radio report that the Humanities Faculty will not play the anthem at the event “out of consideration” for […]

May 18, 2017