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Students

Students of Color Near 74 Percent of U. of California’s Fall Freshman Class

If you want to see what diversity might look like in the future, just go to the campuses of the University of California come September.

July 6, 2017

Home

Lawsuits Rain on DeVos Over Delayed Student Loan Protections

Two advocacy groups and 19 state attorneys general slammed Education Secretary Betsy DeVos with separate lawsuits that seek to force DeVos to scrap plans to delay enforcement of an Obama era rule meant to protect student loan borrowers from predatory colleges.

July 6, 2017

Students

University of Arkansas Won’t Sell Alcohol Despite Approval

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — University of Arkansas doesn’t plan on selling alcohol at intercollegiate sporting events despite state-issued alcohol permits taking effect. Alcoholic Beverage Control Division Director Mary Casteel tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette that large-attendance facility permits for concessionaire Levy Premium Foodservice LP to sell alcohol were approved last month and took effect Saturday. University spokesman […]

July 6, 2017

Students

Report: No Easy Alternative for UNC Center for Civil Rights

RALEIGH, N.C. — A committee studying alternative paths for a University of North Carolina center that offers legal help to the poor found no options that would allow the center to continue the full breadth of its work while also satisfying conservatives who oppose how it operates. The committee appointed by the chancellor of the […]

July 6, 2017

Students

Maryland Outlaws Scholarship Displacement by Public Colleges

OWINGS MILL, Md. — Again and again, college financial aid offices would frustrate Jan Wagner and Michele Waxman Johnson. As executives of Central Scholarship, a nonprofit in Owings Mills that provides scholarships and interest-free loans to Maryland students, they would award a student money and a university would reduce that student’s financial aid by the […]

July 6, 2017

Students

Ohio Empowers Community Colleges to Address Industry Needs

Ohio has become the 24th state to allow its community colleges to offer four-year degrees.

July 5, 2017

Students

Connections Keep Western Michigan’s Dunn Energized

An open and honest connection with students, faculty, administration and staff marked Dr. John M. Dunn’s tenure as president of Western Michigan University. And although he is retiring, that connection, he says, will not be broken.

July 5, 2017

Leadership & Policy

Bennett College Names Dawkins 18th President

Phyllis Worthy Dawkins, who has served as interim president Bennett College since August 2016, was named as the historically Black school’s 18th president on Wednesday. Dawkins had taken the reins of the women’s college in Greensboro, North Carolina when Rosalind Fuse-Hall resigned. According to a statement released by Bennett, Dawkins primary goals are increasing enrollment […]

July 5, 2017

Students

U of Illinois to Host Conference on College Student Hunger

URBANA, Ill. — The University of Illinois will hold a conference focusing on the problem of hunger in college students. Agricultural engineering professor Prasanta Kalita organized the effort to bring the Presidents United to Solve Hunger conference to the Urbana-Champaign campus in March of next year. Kalita said the conference is expected to draw up […]

July 5, 2017

International

U.S. Denies Visas to Gambia Teens in Global Robotics Contest

DAKAR, Senegal — The United States has denied visas to five teenage students from Gambia competing in a prestigious international robotics contest in Washington, the team’s leader said Tuesday. The teens found the rejection “very disheartening,” said Mucktarr M.Y. Darboe, who is also a director in the largely Muslim West African nation’s ministry of higher […]

July 5, 2017

Students

U. of New Hampshire Institute on Disabilities Gets $2.7M Grant

DURHAM, N.H. — The University of New Hampshire has been awarded a five-year, $2.7 million grant to support the independence, productivity and quality of individuals with disabilities. The funding for the university’s Institute on Disability comes from the federal Administration for Community Living. It will be used for research, for training future health and human […]

July 5, 2017

Asian American Pacific Islander

Ivy League Historian Returns Prize After Citations Questions

NEW YORK — A Columbia University professor who specializes in modern Korean and East Asian history has returned a 2014 prize he received from the American Historical Association after some sources in the winning book were questioned. Charles K. Armstrong, author of “Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992,” won the association’s […]

July 5, 2017