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The department says it’s ready to start evaluating FAFSA forms in early March, after months of delays due to system issues. MOLINE, Ill. — The U.S. Department of Education says it’s almost ready to look at FAFSA applications for the 2024-2025 year. The evaluation process has been delayed by several months due to system issues, […]
Feb. 26 is Study Abroad Day, making now an opportune time to reflect on the state of education abroad. Twenty years ago, the congressionally-appointed Commission on the Abraham Lincoln Study Abroad Fellowship Program set an ambitious goal for the United States: send one million college students abroad each year by 2010. Today, a few years removed from the […]
The University of California, San Francisco recently invited a speaker to deliver a lecture during Black History Month that featured several racially charged statements. On Feb. 8, author and critical theorist Dante King delivered a talk at UCSF titled: “Diagnosing Whiteness and Anti-Blackness: White Psychopathology, Collective Psychosis and Trauma in America,” which focused on “the […]
When Kaila Tyree-Castro was 13, her pet geckos got sick. The closest vet was an hour away from her Bowie, Maryland, home and didn’t have an appointment available for two weeks. Tyree-Castro, now 19, felt helpless as she watched her lizards get sicker and then pass away. That episode left her wanting to become a […]
The United States Secret Service is looking to recruit current college and graduate students from Connecticut. From February 26-29, Secret Service recruiters will be on the University of Hartford campus conducting interviews, physical fitness tests, and written examinations to find the ideal candidates. The process is open to students from all colleges in Connecticut. “We’re […]
(FOX40.COM) — California State University Sacramento recently made history with the announcement of the first Black Honors College in the United States. “Sac State enrolls more Black and African American students than any other university in the CSU system,” said Sacramento State President Luke Wood in a press release. “The University should lead the way […]
It was too late for Sanam Ahadi’s grandmother, Karima Lutfi. Ahadi’s family, originally from Afghanistan, had feared taking Lutfi to the hospital when she contracted the Covid-19 virus early in the pandemic. Information was low. Visitors were restricted, and the unknown was inescapable, including the virus’s possible deadliness among older adults . . .
CNN — Lynijah Russell debated the opening lines of her video application to Brown University for weeks before deciding to be as candid about her identity as possible. “Hi Brown! My name is Lynijah, and I am a Black girl in STEM,” she says in the application’s opening line.
6 December 2023 Updated 6 minutes ago To play this content, please enable JavaScript, or try a different browser Video caption, Watch: The moment police teams arrive at scene of active shooter in Las Vegas Three people were killed in a shooting at the Las Vegas campus of the University of Nevada (UNLV) on Wednesday […]
CNN — The gunman in a Wednesday mass shooting on the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, campus that left three dead and a fourth wounded is a 67-year-old career college professor with connections to colleges in Georgia and North Carolina, a law enforcement source . . .