Tag: Public Policy: Page 18

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NCAA President Mark Emmert: We Won’t Push ACC on Bathroom Law

NCAA President Mark Emmert says it is up to the Atlantic Coast Conference to decide whether it wants to follow the association’s lead and pull events out of North Carolina because of a state law that limits anti-discrimination protections for LGBT people. In an interview Tuesday with The Associated Press, Emmert said the association expects […]

September 13, 2016

Sports

NCAA Pulls 7 Events Out of North Carolina Due to LGBT Law

Basketball-crazed North Carolina has lost its next chance to host NCAA men’s basketball tournament games along with several other championship events due to a state law that some say can lead to discrimination against LGBT people. And the fallout may not be over. After the NCAA announced it is pulling seven championship events from North […]

September 13, 2016

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Calif. Community College Promise Programs Expanding

California community college leaders say that they expect the number of promise programs in the state to double over the next year.

September 12, 2016

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Tribal Culture, Oil Access Collide in North Dakota

Members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and their supporters, who have been protesting the construction of the pipeline daily, are attempting to peacefully stop the bulldozing of the site.

September 8, 2016

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A Recipe for Success in Educating STEM Leaders

Is there a recipe for success? Nothing beats hard work, we can all agree on that.

August 31, 2016

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GOP Strategist: Free Education a Ploy for Votes

A Republican strategist threw shade on Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s plan for free college Tuesday but conceded he had nothing to report on where Republican candidate Donald Trump might be headed with higher education.

August 30, 2016

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ITT Technical Institute Halts All Student Enrollment

The company that runs the for-profit ITT Technical Institute has announced it has stopped enrolling all new students.

August 30, 2016

Students

Another University furls Confederate-themed Mississippi Flag

JACKSON, Miss. ― Another Mississippi university has stopped flying the state flag that prominently features the Confederate battle emblem. Mississippi State University becomes the sixth of the state’s eight public universities to do so. University spokesman Sid Salter said Tuesday that President Mark Keenum approved deans’ plans to remove the flag from four locations […]

August 30, 2016

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Study: Academic Readiness Gaps Closing but Slowly

Despite the narrowing readiness gaps, they remain large and in fact progress is so slow that at the rate that improvements are occurring, it will take at least 60 years for disparities to be eliminated.

August 28, 2016

African-American

The Donald Discovers Diversity

His new team is scouring the data like stock-pickers looking for undervalued buys, and they’ve finally stumbled on something Trump has ignored all campaign. People of color.

August 21, 2016

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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.”

August 17, 2016

Students

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 […]

August 16, 2016