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Students

Colorado County Bullish on Pot Starts New Weed Scholarship

A Colorado county that boasts the world’s largest outdoor marijuana farm and has been actively courting the new pot industry has approved the world’s first marijuana-funded college scholarship.

November 4, 2015

Home

College Aid: Obama to Extend Pell Grants to Some HS Students

Thousands of low-income students will be eligible for federal Pell grant money to take college courses while still in high school.

November 1, 2015

Students

Obama Administration Looks to New Rules to Curb Student Debt

U.S. colleges will face new restrictions on using debit cards to distribute financial aid, and more people will have income-based options for repaying student loans under a pair of regulations given final approval by the Obama administration on Tuesday.

October 28, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Fort Valley State Students Back Ousted Swanier in Bid to Save Job

A group of current and former Fort Valley State students are rallying behind a popular tenured associate professor who was notified earlier this year that her position is being eliminated due to efforts to cut costs at the financially strapped public Black university.

October 28, 2015

International

Generation Xers Candid About Financial Future

Earlier this year, the insurance company Allianz Life released the findings of the Generations Apart Study that examined the financial outlook and attitude of 1000 Generation Xers (1965 to 1979) and 1000 Baby Boomers (1946 to 1964).

October 27, 2015

Health

Macalester College Student Creates App to Stop Night Terrors

A student at Macalester College has created a smart watch application to help people suffering from night terrors.

October 14, 2015

Faculty & Staff

UC Berkeley Astronomer Marcy Resigns Over Student Sexual Harassment

A prominent astronomer resigned Wednesday from the University of California, Berkeley, after an investigation found he sexually harassed female students over many years, two top administrators said.

October 14, 2015

Students

Report: U.S. Math Performance Gap Starts with Unequal Access

When it comes to educating U.S. teens in math, schools play a significant factor in reinforcing, and even worsening, the inequalities between students from upper-income families and their low-income peers.

October 14, 2015

Students

MSIs Need to Embrace Competency-Based Learning Strategies

It is essential for HBCUs, TCUs and other MSIs to be a part of the planning and implementation of such CBL strategies since these institutions are likely to be major producers of the national workforce of the future.

October 13, 2015

Students

Seeing Student Success

Cal State Fullerton among institutions employing a host of interventions to help students persist, graduate.

October 7, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Kingston Provides Backdrop for Scholars to Convene

Leaders from all over gather in Kingston, Jamaica, for the International Colloquium of Black Males in Education.

October 7, 2015

Faculty & Staff

Novelist Quits Teaching at Phoenix College Over Loyalty Oath

PHOENIX — A crime novelist and poet quit his job teaching creative writing at Phoenix College because of a longstanding state requirement for public employees to sign a loyalty oath. Former adjunct faculty member James Sallis said the oath is a violation of his privacy and civil rights, and asks him to violate the constitution, […]

September 29, 2015