Tag: graduates

Leading Higher Ed Stakeholders Offer Advice to Newly-Minted Ph.Ds. Looking for Work

Higher education has been hit with furloughs and layoffs stemming from the economic instability brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. The national unemployment rate in April reached a high of 14.7% but dropped to 13.3% in May, the Bureau for Labor Statistics (BLS) reported. However, when broken down by education, individuals with a college degree were less likely to be unemployed.

July 22, 2020

Champlain College Launches Virtual Gap Program

For students looking to delay their college start date due to the impact of COVID-19, Champlain College introduced a virtual gap program.

June 15, 2020

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TV Doctors to Celebrate Graduating Doctors in Virtual Ceremony on Wednesday

Actors who have portrayed doctors in popular media and other celebrities will honor this year’s 30,000 graduating medical school students at the American Medical Association’s (AMA) virtual celebration on Wednesday at 7 p.m. EDT on AMA’s YouTube channel and Facebook. “Now more than ever, the AMA believes we must recognize the young women and men […]

May 20, 2020

Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson Introduces Quality Higher Education Act

Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson’s newly introduced Quality Higher Education Act (H.R. 4579) will change the accreditation system in order to help graduating college students earn degrees to help better prepare them for the workforce. The act will establish performance benchmarks and will require more transparency among accreditor’s evaluations of schools. About 13 million students receive […]

October 9, 2019

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Nonprofit Aims to Support Latino Students Up Through First Career Job Offer

Attaining a higher education in the U.S. can be very challenging, especially for those who face socioeconomic and language barriers. Latino U College Access (LUCA), a nonprofit organization is working to increase college enrollment and completion among first-generation Latino youth.

October 3, 2019

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Virginia State President to Honor Daughter at Winter Commencement

On December 15, Virginia State University (VSU) president Dr. Makola M. Abdullah will recognize more than 300 graduates during the winter graduation ceremony. One graduate in particular is special to Abdullah, his daughter, Sefiyetu. Sefiyetu Abdullah, 19, will be one of the youngest graduates in the VSU Class of 2018, graduating with summa cum laude […]

December 12, 2018

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Naming Rights

I’ve thought a lot about this seemingly simple act of reading names at Commencement. Mostly I’ve thought that this ritual is far from simple: it punctuates one of the most complex learning experiences of college — figuring out who you are and what that who will be called. The 1989 United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child recognizes this powerful marker of human identity and human dignity. By signing on to this agreement (as have nearly 200 countries have) states must act in the best interests of children by complying with basic rights, including, vitally, the right to their own name and identity from birth.

December 10, 2018

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Liberty University Grads Returning Diplomas to Protest Falwell

LYNCHBURG, Va. — A small group of Liberty University graduates are planning to return their diplomas to the evangelical Virginia school as a rebuke of President Jerry Falwell Jr.’s latest show of unwavering support for Donald Trump. The Liberty alumni organized the “Return your diploma to LU group” on Facebook after Falwell, in tweets and […]

August 21, 2017

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