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Cohort Completes Congressional Hispanic Caucus Initiative Fellows Program
Stories of growth, perseverance and lessons learned were part of a farewell reception for 15 Latino college graduates who spent the last nine months as public policy and graduate fellows in an annual program sponsored by the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute.
May 23, 2019
STEM
Dr. Loni Philip Tabb: Making Biostatistics Relevant
Anyone familiar with inner city neighborhoods has probably noticed the number of alcohol-selling businesses located on block after block. Growing up in Philadelphia, Dr. Loni Philip Tabb was aware of the proliferation of such outlets.
February 1, 2019
News Roundup
University of Delaware School of Public Policy Renamed After Joe Biden
The University of Delaware (UD) has renamed its public policy school after former U.S. Vice President, Delaware senator and alumni Joe Biden. The school, now called the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. School of Public Policy and Administration, will further initiatives in public policy areas like health policy and management, social and urban policy, energy and […]
December 13, 2018
News Roundup
American University Creates Sine Institute of Policy and Politics
American University President Sylvia M. Burwell has announced the launch of the Sine Institute of Policy and Politics. Capitalizing on AU’s location in the nation’s capital, the Institute will bring together experts and top scholars in the field with students in research and scholarship to work on the nation’s most pressing challenges in a way […]
September 25, 2018
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USC Race Center Issues Report Card on Black Student Equity
A new study by the University of Southern California Race and Equity Center paints a grim picture of inequity for the 900,000 African-American undergraduate students at public institutions of higher learning across the nation.
September 24, 2018
News Roundup
UVA Center Hires Trump Ex-Official, Many Faculty Disapprove
Dozens of University of Virginia professors are outraged at the university’s decision to hire a former member of the Trump administration, according to an NBC-29 news report in Charlottesville, Va. Marc Short, a former White House director of legislative affairs who has an MBA from UVA, has been hired as a senior fellow at the […]
July 23, 2018
Students
Experts Tell Congress Free Speech on Campus ‘Essential’
Higher education leaders and government officials must resist efforts to restrict free speech on campus and keep colleges as places of “ongoing intellectual challenge,” a university president testified at a Congressional hearing Thursday.
October 26, 2017
Faculty & Staff
Chancellor Raises Concern About Protecting Research
FARGO, N.D. — Potential customers who are interested in teaming with North Dakota researchers on fields like unmanned aircraft are balking because of the state’s open records laws, the head of the university system says. Chancellor Mark Hagerott told the state Board of Higher Education during last month’s meeting that some leading research universities are […]
October 16, 2017
HBCUs
Indiana University Officials, Governor Announce $50M Opioid Recovery Effort
INDIANAPOLIS — Indiana residents are more likely to die from a drug overdose than a car crash. That grim statistic was offered Tuesday by Indiana University officials who joined Gov. Eric Holcomb at the Statehouse to announce a new effort funded by $50 million in university money to fight opioid abuse. “If I could do […]
October 10, 2017
Students
Discussion of Affirmative Action Impact on Asian American Students Rolls On
In an Education Writers Association higher ed session Tuesday, key figures debated whether affirmative action policies are discriminatory of Asian American students.
October 3, 2017
Leadership & Policy
Kentucky Supreme Court Rules University of Louisville Board Issue Moot
FRANKFORT, Ky. — The Kentucky Supreme Court won’t say if Republican Gov. Matt Bevin broke the law when he ousted the University of Louisville’s governing board last year, prompting the governor and his chief political rival to both claim victory. Democratic Attorney General Andy Beshear said Bevin’s order broke the law and sued him in […]
September 28, 2017
STEM
2 Ohio Colleges Apply for Medical Marijuana Testing
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Two colleges have applied to handle testing for Ohio’s nascent medical marijuana program. A spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Commerce tells The Cincinnati Enquirer reports that Central State University in southwest Ohio and Hocking College in southeast Ohio both sent in applications by last Friday’s deadline. State law mandates only colleges […]
September 27, 2017
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