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Faculty & Staff

Saginaw Valley State Gives Police Data on City’s Crime Trends

Saginaw Valley State University professors and students have shared with police their recent work to identify crime trends in Saginaw, noting poverty and vacant homes as key factors in the city.

July 2, 2014

Faculty & Staff

Education Department Official: Some Campuses Hostile to Victims

Some colleges and universities are still failing students by inadequately responding to campus sexual assault, a senior Education Department official testified Thursday.

June 26, 2014

Students

Cornell University Alumni Endow First Africana Studies Center Lectureship

Cornell University alumni Reuben A. Munday and Cheryl Casselberry Munday have created an endowment that will allow the university’s Africana Studies and Research Center to bring in a leading scholar of African and African-American studies to the Ithaca campus for an annual lecture.

June 25, 2014

Community Colleges

Education Department Removes Tweet With Movie Scene

The Education Department on Wednesday apologized for a tweet that depicted a scene from the movie Bridesmaids with the words “Help me. I’m poor” imprinted on it as part of an effort to get students to apply for federal aid.

June 25, 2014

Students

Corinthian Colleges, Education Dept. Reach Tentative Agreement

The for-profit education company will receive an immediate $16 million in federal student aid funds and keep operating.

June 23, 2014

Students

Corinthian Colleges Warns It May Shut Down

Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit education company with about 75,000 students nationwide, warned Thursday that it may fail as it clashes with U.S. regulators over student data.

June 19, 2014

Disabilties

Better College Stats Needed on Dating Violence

The Obama administration wants colleges and universities to compile more thorough statistics on stalking, dating violence and domestic violence.

June 19, 2014

Students

‘Tough Love’ Urged in Higher Education Reform Plan

An Education Trust study urges federal action on four-year institutions falling within the bottom 5 percent of colleges on access, graduation rates, and student loan repayment performance.

June 18, 2014

Community Colleges

Starbucks Offers Its Employees an Educational Break

In collaboration with Arizona State University, the company will pay employees’ college tuition during their junior and senior years.

June 16, 2014

Sports

NCAA Athletes Could Make Big Money Under Plan

University of San Francisco economist Daniel Rascher based his testimony at the NCAA antitrust trial on the 55 percent of broadcast revenue the NFL shares with its players.

June 15, 2014

Students

Ruby Dee’s Legacy of Activism, Acting Mourned

For Ruby Dee, acting and activism were not contradictory things. They were inseparable and they were intertwined.

June 12, 2014

African-American

Ex-NY Times Editor Abramson to Teach at Harvard

Former New York Times Executive Editor Jill Abramson is joining Harvard University as a visiting lecturer this coming school year, the university announced Thursday.

June 12, 2014